(KNSI) — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says a record hybrid sunfish was pulled from a Kandiyohi Lake last month.
Aaron Ardoff was fishing for bass and pike with his brother and a friend on September 18th on Green Lake when the sunny bit on his orange and black spinner bait. He told the DNR, “As soon as I started reeling, I could tell it wasn’t fighting like a pike or bass. When the fish got closer, I could see that it was a sunfish and I started panicking. I kept telling myself to not go crazy and just get it in.”
Ardoff brought it to a local tackle shop where the local fisheries supervisor identified it as a hybrid sunfish – or a cross between two species of sunnies – and oversaw it being weighed on the shop’s approved scale. The fish weighed in at one pound, 12 ounces and tied the state record of another, which was caught on the Zumbro River in 1994.
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