Joshua Daniels caught a big sunfish in Arizona that looked like a smallmouth bass on his forward-facing sonar. It's a new ...

An 11-year-old Missouri boy is being honored for his recent catch of a redear sunfish that fell just an ounce shy of the longstanding state record. Fisher Hogan reeled the 2-pound, 6-ounce redear ...

“I’ve shot three more of these redear sunfish, and I’ve missed the state record either by an ounce or two ounces each time, and now I’ve finally got the record,” he said.

Read Next: Sunfish vs Bluegill Identification Guide When you think of record-breaking fish, a little sunfish probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. However, redear sunfish – also called a ...

Identifying Marks: Green sunfish have a far more elongated body than other types of sunfish, resembling a bass more than a bluegill or redear. They also have a noticeably larger mouth than other ...

In terms of size potential, redear sunfish (aka Shellcracker) may exhibit regionally superior growth. Arizona’s Lake Havasu comes to mind, with the IGFA all-tackle world record standing at 6 ...

In part three of this fishing series, this week will take a look at one of the other primary active fish species in the Northeast Tennessee summer: the sunfishes.