West-central Arizona’s sprawling Lake Havasu is a popular spot for boaters. The deep and clear, 19,000-acre reservoir on the Colorado River offers good fishing, and heavy boat traffic is something ...

Claim to fame: Though smaller than well-known sportfish like black bass and crappie, the redear sunfish has become a popular catch in many reservoirs and ponds. One reason for this is that an adult ...

Seventeen-year-old Riley Isaacs from Bradleyville, Missouri, arrowed a record-book redear sunfish while bowfishing Lake Taneycomo on April 18. Isaac’s panfish, which weighed in at 2 pounds 3 ounces, ...

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 ...

A Missouri man has caught a state-record sunfish on his first time bowfishing. Andrew Hunt, of Hollister, was congratulated by the Missouri Department of Conservation on Wednesday after snagging a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Redear sunfish caught by Josh Cole on April 29, 2019. Photo courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation JEFFERSON CITY — Now that's a big sunfish. So big, in fact, that when Josh Cole, of ...