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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bluegill is the most common and widely known species in the sunfish family. Bluegills are beloved by anglers across North America. Many of us—this author included—got our start catching them in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A 2-pound catch is ...