Record sunfish, Santa Catalina Island, too heavy to weigh, estimated at 2500 pounds [See: Sun Fish caught by Geo Farnsworth, Girth 9 ft. 9 ft. long, Weight 1,500 lbs, Catalina Isl., July 27, 1903. On that photograph the fish hangs next to the same pavilion from the same rack on top of which a sign informs about the location: boatman Harry Elms' place at the gravel beach of the Avalon Bay in Avalon, California, USA.
Author Charles Frederick Holder (1851–1915)
Subject: Sunfishes, Fishers, Santa Catalina, Gulf of (California)
Geographic Subject: United States--California--Santa Catalina, Gulf of
Tag: Sport Fishing
Date Taken on 27 July 1903 ; published 1910
Source/Photographer
English: Charles F Holder (1910) Sport Fishing in California and Florida, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, vol. 28, 1908, Part 1, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_42093_Record_sunfish,_Santa_Catalina_Island,_too_heavy_to_weigh,_estimated_at_2500_pounds.jpeg

The ocean sunfish or common mola (Mola mola) is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. The ocean sunfish is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. Mola mola resembles a fish head with a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally.