# @outdoor_life on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMvq3N9SUr2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33390440-outdoor-life-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/e19a111d25.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-07-30T20:10:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

## Caption

“By releasing her, maybe I can catch her again a year or two from now and she’ll be big enough to set another record.”

Joshua Daniels caught a big sunfish in Arizona that looked like a smallmouth bass on his forward-facing sonar. After hooking it, Daniels says the fish fought hard and deep, but four minutes later, using 6-pound test, and a long 7-foot-9-inch rod, he brought the fish to the surface where he saw it wasn’t a bass, but a giant sunfish. It turned out to be the new catch-and-release state-record redear sunfish.

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#fishing #fishingtrip #fishingseason #sunfish #panfish #redearsunfish #lakehavasu #outdoors #catchandrelease #outdoorlife
🎥: bigbassbully
Story by: Bob McNally

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- **Views:** 14,282
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## Tags

redearsunfish, panfish, outdoors, fishing, sunfish, fishingseason, catchandrelease, outdoorlife, fishingtrip, lakehavasu

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