Redear Sunfish Lepomis Microlophus which is also known in the southern states as “Shellcrackers”, was first stocked in Michigan around the mid-50’s. At that time some good populations and fisheries developed and became self-sustaining for over three decades. Some of these waters occasionally produced trophy-sized fish, from an area of the state with heavily fished water that gave up very little trophies of native panfish.At the time no other large-scale, purebred stocking pr