Redear Sunfish

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Scientific Name: Lepomis microlophus

Other Names: Centrarchidae

State Redear Sunfish Records:

• Illinois State Record:
  2 lbs 12 ozs caught by Mike DeMattei caught on Marion CC Lake on September 7, 1985.
• Indiana State Record:
  3 lbs 10 ozs caught by R. Peckman caught on Lake on January 1, 1974.
• Michigan State Record:
  1 lbs 15 ozs caught by Ellen Gillette caught on Coldwater Lake, Branch County on January 1, 1995.