Fishing duo Cole and Jay reel in red-ear sunfish biting aggressively in the summer heat.

Using a method that’s more like hunting than fishing, a Missouri man caught a record-breaking fish earlier this month. That redear sunfish weighed 2 pounds, 2 ounces — beating out the previous record ...

Zac Mickle caught a monster redear sunfish on Lake Havasu, which sits on the Arizona and California state line. The lake is perhaps the most renowned panfish water in the country. It appears on almost ...

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 ...

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 ...