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Newly Established North Carolina Record Spotted Sunfish Caught By Elijah Crabtree 7.7 oz
Caught earlier this summer in Robeson county.by 12 year old Elijah Crabtree on a beetle spin.......weighed 7.7 ounces.......not very common in North Carolina but neat to see after catching so many over the years down south.....Congrats to the young angler.........
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney 10 hours ago
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This is the record for spotted sunfish in North Carolina but I’ve only seen the tiny blue spotted sunfish in the oldest natural lake in this state…..
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Comment by Tinknocker1 on September 21, 2016 at 7:14am
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sweet ! congrats and caught him on a beetle spin !
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Comment by Jonathan Titshaw on September 20, 2016 at 6:16pm
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Very nice. A bayou feast, I like the sound of that.
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Here's a sink full of mostly 5 to 6 inch red spotted sunfish from a trip down in Louisiana...........I have cleaned thousands of these tasty little sunfish over the years,,,,,,,,,,,,,I owe that to my grandfather who told me if I cleaned a few back in the day I would always crave some...........he was right..............
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Right on Jonathan.........some of my all time favorite fish fries are stumpknockers...........very few people have the patience to clean a couple hundred at a time for a bayou feast............
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I agree completely Jeff and that's pretty much how I explained it to him. I'm originally from GA and we always knew them as two different species. Stumpknockers really don't get too big. From what I found Florida has the biggest record at 13 ounces. I catch allot of them here in the Little Pee Dee.
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Comment by John Sheehan on September 20, 2016 at 6:32am
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Very cool post!
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Comment by carl hendrix on September 19, 2016 at 6:24pm
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A VERY BIG AND HEARTY;; CONGRATS TO THIS YOUNG MAN !
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Two different species for my money Jonathan..........in Louisiana a "stumpknocker" is slang for a Spotted Sunfish and there are thousands of them in the bayous..........a shellcracker gets the largest of all sunfish and goes by RedEar......Lake Runner.......Chinquapin............just to name a few..............my two cents but I do agree that regional cultures establish many sunfish names that stick......
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Jeff I meant to ask have you ever heard this referred to as the Stumpknocker? Was arguing with a buddy and he was saying shellcracker and Stumpknocker were the same, people just called them different depending where you're from. I was saying they are in fact two different fish. I was trying to educate him lol. What do you think?
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