“I was fishing off my father-in-law’s dock at a private lake a little south of Eureka,” he explained. “I was with my 12-year-old son and we knew there was some good-sized sunfish in the lake. I was using my handline and it was the first line I threw in when we caught the fish.”

The previous record of largest sunfish weighed in at 3 ounces and was set in 1993. Apparently, Audrain and his friends were amused that a fish that size could set a state record.

Audrain said, “It’s funny because most of my friends thought it was a joke. Because of the fish’s size, they really didn’t think that it was a record.”

Still, a record-setting-fish is a record-setting-fish and Audrain has plans to preserve the catch.