Posted By: J-Moe
State Private Water Body Fly Fishing Record - 12/31/14 03:30 PM
In the spring while bass fishing a couple of local ponds I caught a huge green sunfish off a spro baby popper frog. Then in May I took up fly fishing and started to catch more of these 10 inch plus sunfish off top water poppers. I looked up the state record for private water body on the fly and it was 9.5 inch, 0.72 lb. In August I caught one over 10", but it only weighed .65 lbs. So the fall came and they started to fatten up a bit. Finally, on December 4th I caught one that was 10.25 inches and .80 lbs. I submitted the application to the TPWD. It was caught off a black wooley bugger in a small pond. It will be posted on the TPWD website when it is updated in early January 2015.