Georgia
Record-breaking sunfish caught in Georgia’s Satilla River
(Georgia Division of Pure Assets)
FOLKSTON, Ga. – Wildlife officers say a redbreast sunfish caught in south Georgia breaks a 24-year-old state report.
The Georgia Division of Pure Assets mentioned Lester Roberts of Blackshear made the large catch Might 7 on the Satilla River. He reeled in a redbreast sunfish weighing 1.75 kilos (0.79 kilograms) and measuring almost 11.5 inches (29 centimeters), the company mentioned in a information launch.
That beat the earlier state report fish of the identical species caught in 1998 and will tie a world report, the wildlife company mentioned. It mentioned redbreast sunfish usually weigh lower than a pound (0.45 kilograms).
(Georgia Division of Pure Assets)
It’s not the one fish caught in Georgia lately to interrupt a state report.
A lady in March caught a longnose gar exceeding 31 kilos (14 kilograms) on the Coosa River close to Rome. And in December a person caught a shoal bass exceeding 8.25 kilos (3.74 kilograms) within the Chattahoochee River close to Columbus.