James Lucas of O’Fallon became the most recent record-breaking angler in Missouri when he caught a redear sunfish on a private pond in Lincoln County. The new “alternative method” record fish caught ...

Four Missouri fish records have now been broken so far this year. The latest was by Josh Cole of Reeds Spring, who used his bowfishing rig to shoot a 1-pound, 12-ounce redear sunfish at Table Rock ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri anglers broke multiple state records and even two world records in 2024. The state's first broken fishing record of 2025 may be small, but it shows Missouri's anglers ...

Redear sunfish go by many names with chinquapin and shellcrackers being two of the more common in Mississippi. Although some anglers specifically target redear, they are often a by-catch for those ...

FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. — The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources confirmed another inaugural state record for a fish species which was added to the lineup of state records in the Mountain State ...

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources delivered 3,250 redear sunfish to Devou Park in Covington on Wednesday morning as part of the Fisheries Division's Fishing in Neighborhoods ...

GRASS LAKE — Chris Freiburger is conflicted. As a fisheries biologist, he believes that lakes should be managed to maximize the native species in them. But as an angler, he’s got nothing but praise ...

NEW ROADS — The ambitious effort to restore False River continued Tuesday when the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries restocked the ailing oxbow lake with approximately 300 pounds of ...

Zac Mickle has a knack for catching huge redear sunfish at Arizona’s Lake Havasu, but during a recent outing Mickle landed a redear so massive and plump that he described the fish as “a freak of ...

For most anglers it all starts with some species of sunfish. At some point, Dad or Grandad handed us a rod with a bobber and worm at a local creek or lake, and the fishing addiction began. The funny ...

The International Game Fish Assn. confirmed Friday that it’s reviewing a May 4 catch of a massive redear sunfish as a potential world record. “You may have seen this fish circulating the Internet in ...