Found this pic of the world record Green sunfish

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, MoCarp said:

many a record has not been reported......

For sure.  I witnessed the state record Brook trout being caught.   And when I was a kid we caught a behemoth bluegill on a limb line that I'm sure would still be the standing record. It ate a 3" long goldfish and was as big around as a frisbee. 

[MoCarp]

My kid brother caught and released a Rock bass in shoal creek in the 70's that weighted 3 lbs even on a zebco del-liar, he released it because he was too lazy to clean it!

Then in the late 70's early 80's there was a group of Trot liners that was known on Stockton as the Sarcoxie gang, that had a reputation of landing triple digit Flatheads out of the lake, strictly meat fisherman and VERY tight lipped, I saw one fish that a old timer I worked with had in a horse tank he had in his garage that he let them "clean out" for a few days before he cleaned it he said it weighed in the 120-125 range and it was big as a spoonbill! He talked me into putting my hand in the tank in font the beasts mouth and it bit the hell outa my hand faster than you could say CHIT!....ripped skin right off my hand!....