Minnesota DNR Quality Sunfish Initiative
The Quality Sunfish Initiative targets certain lakes to reduce the bag limits.
Ruiter says Minnesota anglers have said they re pleased overall with the number of sunfish they catch but they d like to see a higher number of large fish.
Ruiter explained Sunfish grow about an inch per year. A 7 inch sunny is a nice fish and a 10 inch sunny is considered a trophy fish.
To put this in perspective a trophy deer takes 3 years to grow that size.
I checked the Minnesota fishing records which are listed on the MnDNR website and the largest Sunfish Bluegill recorded was 2 pounds 13 ounces on Alice Lake in Hubbard County in 1948. No measurements of length and girth were recorded.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game says is congratulating Tyler Urban for catching a rare sunfish species found in only a few places in the Gem State. Urban was fishing in CJ Strike Reservoir on May 26 with his dad when he caught a new catch-and-release state record Warmouth. The fish measured 7.5 inches. Officials say this is the first record submitted for this species. Fish and Game tells us that Warmouth are not native to Idaho. It's.
More than a million gallons of drinking water killed fish on the Comal River last week.
According to the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, an undetermined amount of fish died in the river after the potabale water spilled from a main break into the nearby Blieders Creek and then flowed into the Comal, New Braunfels Utilities Chief Communications Officer Melissa Krause told the paper.
The chlorine in the water attacks the gills of fish, an expert told the newspaper. The lethality of it usually dilutes in about a day.
Though an exact number of fish deaths has not been found, the newspaper reported the species affected included the Bluegill, Red-spotted Sunfish, Largemouth Bass, Mexican Tetra, Mosquitofish, Green Sunfish, Redbreast, Longear Sunfish, Salfin Molly and Flathead Catfish.
More than a million gallons of drinking water killed fish on the Comal River last week.
According to the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, an undetermined amount of fish died in the river after the potabale water spilled from a main break into the nearby Blieders Creek and then flowed into the Comal, New Braunfels Utilities Chief Communications Officer Melissa Krause told the paper.
The chlorine in the water attacks the gills of fish, an expert told the newspaper. The lethality of it usually dilutes in about a day.
Though an exact number of fish deaths has not been found, the newspaper reported the species affected included the Bluegill, Red-spotted Sunfish, Largemouth Bass, Mexican Tetra, Mosquitofish, Green Sunfish, Redbreast, Longear Sunfish, Salfin Molly and Flathead Catfish.