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Title: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: taxid on May 04, 2021, 07:34 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/B8ldXW7l.png)
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: Bartman44 on May 04, 2021, 07:38 PM
That's unbelievable. I can't catch bass that heavy.
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: taxid on May 04, 2021, 07:54 PM
That's unbelievable. I can't catch bass that heavy.

Apparently there is an exotic mussel in the lake the red-ears feed on. Same was true of the Santee Cooper reservoir channel in SC where at least one former record came from. 
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: 2LMKR2 on May 04, 2021, 08:52 PM
WOW!!!!
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: filetandrelease on May 04, 2021, 10:16 PM

 Omg 😱 awesome fish
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: hunts2long on May 05, 2021, 06:01 AM
That is some sunfish...h2l
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: ICEHOLE on May 05, 2021, 06:37 AM
I would actually fish for them if they got that big normally
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: iceman260 on May 05, 2021, 06:45 AM
WOW! That is some fish.
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: hounds on May 05, 2021, 12:53 PM
Beautiful :o
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: hounds on May 05, 2021, 01:03 PM
Does it count as an Arizona or a California state record as well?
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: taxid on May 05, 2021, 06:10 PM
taxi, there is that resemblance thing again. ;D



Yeah I thought of that myself!
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: taxid on May 05, 2021, 06:10 PM
you better order some of dem mussels for your ponds! lol


https://lake-havasu-sports-guide.com/fishing-reports/5-years-after-world-record-redear-sunfish-catch-invasive-quagga-mussels-considered-a-likely-contributor-to-monster-sizes-of-these-sunfish-at-lake-havasu-duh/ (https://lake-havasu-sports-guide.com/fishing-reports/5-years-after-world-record-redear-sunfish-catch-invasive-quagga-mussels-considered-a-likely-contributor-to-monster-sizes-of-these-sunfish-at-lake-havasu-duh/)

Sounds like a great way to get shut down and go to jail!  ;D
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: taxid on May 05, 2021, 09:38 PM
Does it count as an Arizona or a California state record as well?

Good question!
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: fishinjohn on May 06, 2021, 06:15 AM
Does it count as an Arizona or a California state record as well?
I can't see why not
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: hunts2long on May 06, 2021, 08:23 AM
Well, it is "big" enough to cover more than one state...h2l
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: catfisher on May 06, 2021, 11:15 AM
Are there any nuclear powerplants or disposal sights for radioactive waste near this lake ??  AWESOME, CAN'T BE CALLED A PANFISH!
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: Fish Farmer on May 06, 2021, 12:02 PM
That would make one heck of a flathead bait.
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: taxid on May 06, 2021, 12:59 PM
would it count as Indiana record if brought back, put in tank, then caught out? lmao  you could say it was caught from lake George and have mi. record too then?

I'm starting to wonder about you.  ;D

What you brought up has been attempted. I wonder how many people have got away with it?

There was a guy in Eastern Europe that moved a commercially netted monster pike from one of the huge lakes there and put it into his private pond and recaught it. Didn't work out the way he planned it.
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: mcully on May 07, 2021, 05:12 AM
look up Montana brown trout record. Monster caught this week on a kastmaster
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: taxid on May 07, 2021, 08:10 AM
woo thats a fat brown.  what a battle that had to be!

https://helenair.com/outdoors/montana-angler-recounts-catching-new-state-record-brown-trout/article_3639fa71-5d73-5f9f-9ac9-7bd2f743e88c.html

(https://i.imgur.com/7PSQ60Rm.jpg)

Looks like a female full of eggs.(No kype). Definitely didn't lack anything to eat.
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: mcully on May 07, 2021, 08:22 AM
look at that tail! Not sure I'd have the heart to kill it even though its probably maxed out and eating anything and everything it wants.
Taxi- how much bigger do you think it could realize if left to swim?
Title: Re: New World Record Red-ear Lake Havasu
Post by: taxid on May 07, 2021, 02:00 PM
look at that tail! Not sure I'd have the heart to kill it even though its probably maxed out and eating anything and everything it wants.
Taxi- how much bigger do you think it could realize if left to swim?

Hard to say. I've heard of exceptional browns getting to about 40 inches in other parts of the world. OTOH could have been close to the end of it's life span?

Ironically if a trout grows too fast it shortens it's lifespan.  I've been told by one biologist the key to longer lifespan in salmonids is access to really cold water even if they don't grown exceptionally fast.

If that river was planted with 8 to 10 inch trout I'll bet they were a big part of it's diet.