Where to find a Longear Sunfish?

Your first step will be contacting your State Fisheries department, to find out if it is legal to keep them in the aquarium in your state.

Thanks for the tip, emailed them just now. Lets see what they say.

Oh cool, thanks

Yep I have those around my lakes. Catch them all the time. But i have never seen one with so much red like that. Usually they have turquiose up there jaw like dempseys and GTs and some red bellys. But that looks like some breeding experiment.

Thats just it, there is about 4 types on longear sunfish and the one you described is one of them.

I've never seen one so red, what a beauty!