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08-04-09 Massive NY 10.75 inches Bull Redbreast Sunfish -Personal Best RedBreast

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Comment by Jeff Bernier on August 6, 2009 at 9:11am
Great colors and nice size.
Comment by Patrick "Bullworm" Olson on August 6, 2009 at 5:35am
That is awesome! Congrats, my friend! The coolest part is you let her go, man that is very respectable!
Comment by Bill "Musky" Modica on August 5, 2009 at 7:57pm
Just an outstanding fish IceWarrior!....I've never caught a RBS, they simply don't make them in the Chicagoland area.....but if they did, I would have to put that one on the replica list......great fish!
Comment by IceWarriorGill on August 5, 2009 at 6:46pm
Thanks everybody for the kind comments on my RedBreast Sunfish!!! As you can probably tell from the photos, I caught him around dusk as the light was fading. I caught him on a 2 inch Rapala Jointed Shad Rap (Shad color, Black back, Suspending) slowly cranking back to shore (first time this year I've had to use a crankbait--I normally use these crankbaits only for trolling purposes...Pretty much out of my comfort zone because I don't have alot of faith in Crankbaits--I'm a die-hard jighead and soft plastic man!!!) Anyway the bite was very hard to come by and I simply could not cast my lightweight jig very far to the deeper water where the Monsters lurk--so I went to the Shad Rap as I can cast this a mile. Although the trebles would get weed choked on almost every cast, I could still crank about 20-25 feet before it would hit the deep weed edge and I was lucky when this Big Guy hit it. I really thought I had just gotten snagged on a big underwater log because the lure stopped like it hit a brick wall for several seconds and I was just going to start to try to unsnag it when I felt the fish moving. It felt like a 5 lbs Smallie on the fight and because there are many big Smallies in the area where I fish, I kept waiting for it to jump but it didn't. It ran me into a bush and I just kept steady pressure on the line until it decided to run back out of the bush (lucky for me the line didn't snag on the bush). Was able to land it without a net (I forgot to bring mine). Took some photos and then released it unharmed so it can get BIGGER and BADDER!!!!
Comment by Mike Penrose on August 5, 2009 at 1:04pm
Nice!! Those are really cool looking fish.
Comment by Howard Webster on August 5, 2009 at 1:03pm
way to go Gill what a beauty
Comment by Lance A. Cashler on August 5, 2009 at 11:02am
Those fish are spectacular!
Comment by John Cachel on August 5, 2009 at 6:49am
Wow! That's big for Redbreast Sunfish! I caught a few small Redbreast Sunfish in NJ when I visited my sister there!
Comment by John Sheehan on August 5, 2009 at 6:26am
Excellent!!
Comment by Rob Garner on August 4, 2009 at 9:05pm
beautiful wish we had em here to catch.

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