New word record - Redear

By: Kellen » February 17th, 2014, 1:31 pm

Lake Havasu does it again, it looks like the redear sunfish world record was broken again there yesterday with a 5.8 pounder. 

The previous record was set on May 2nd, 2011 and weighed 5.55 pounds, also at Havasu.

Again, the quaggas are good for something. Feeding giant redears.



More big Havasu redears that show the evolution in size;

4 pound 13 ouncer caught in June of 2012

The 5.55 pounder caught in May of 2011 that has stood as the world record for the last few year

And then here is a pic of a redear Mike Phua caught while practicing for an FLW Bass tournament last March at Havasu. He said it weighed 5.7-5.9 pounds on the handheld scale in the boat. But I don't think they ever got it on the right scale for consideration for any records at the time.



Havasu is the redear capital of the world right now. We might see a 6 pounder this spring.


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Man, those are huge sunfish.

matt

Holy smokes. That's a giant.

Wow. Not only large, but looks pretty healthy.

If the sunfish are that big, imagien what the bass are like...we need a bigger boat!

Did they mention about the fish length?