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https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/missouri-fisherman-sunfish-record-4-ounces

By Michael Hollan | Fox News

State records come in all sizes.



A Missouri angler is officially in the state's records books after catching a fish that looks like it could fit in the palm of his hand. Weighing in at 4 ounces, this sunfish is more than big enough to break the previous record.

The Missouri Department of Conservation announced that Robert Audrain III from St. Louis had set a state record by catching the 4-ounce sunfish on July 3rd. Audrain was fishing at a private pond in Franklin County when he caught the fish.

“I was fishing off my father-in-law’s dock at a private lake a little south of Eureka,” he explained. “I was with my 12-year-old son and we knew there was some good-sized sunfish in the lake. I was using my handline and it was the first line I threw in when we caught the fish.”

The previous record of largest sunfish weighed in at 3 ounces and was set in 1993. Apparently, Audrain and his friends were amused that a fish that size could set a state record.


Audrain said, “It’s funny because most of my friends thought it was a joke. Because of the fish’s size, they really didn’t think that it was a record.”

Still, a record-setting-fish is a record-setting-fish and Audrain has plans to preserve the catch.


“My buddy’s father is a taxidermist, and I think I’m going to have him mount it,” he said. “But I think my son and I are going to try for another record. We’re pretty sure there’s a bigger fish in that lake. I think it’d be cool for him to beat my record!”


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What variety of sunfish?
I hate the way digital cameras are used nowadays to make fish look bigger than they are.
Seems insecurity in action.

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   Looks like a pumpkinseed sunfish .

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I think that's properly called
a longear fish


My folks have just always
lumped them together and
called them brim
18 MINUTES.  . . . . . .

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There is a online site, I used to have it book marked but the thing I hate most about comp. is if you have a problem and unless you literally wrote down the address it is lost, where dudes went out with very, very light weight fish gear and fish for little fish.

I mean little; a 4 ounce fish would be a monster.It has been years since I saw it, but they would at time catch a , comparatively speaking, large version of a minnow bait type fish and remark that they get bigger than the scientific fish journals, online or print, say they do.

I read a site yesterday Catfish World I think, where gents for whom Icthyology was a full time hobby, that were speaking about Flathead Bullheads down South.They were saying about how the imported Flathead Catfish had decimated bullhead populations and the people who introduced them had shite for brains.
They remarked that online , max size for them was about ten inches but one fellow had a picture of one close to two feet long.He said that when he was young, that in a lake in his area it was not rare to catch then in the 2 to 5 pound range but now with the Flathead Catfish, the big ones were rare and catching any was becoming more like work.

I regret to this day that when I returned to college, I did not stick with getting a degree in Icthyology.
Stupidity has just rewards and I ended up getting a degree simply because I wanted one.