Rule #1, never go fishing without a camera ... Oooops, I break that rule all the time. Did it look like a male or a female? Sounds like a great fish Ken.
Yeah -- oh, do I know about going out without a camera? I'd been doing plumbing and bushogging, and didn't even have my cell phone with me. I know better, and I need to be whipped with a night crawler. Actually, I think I need to find a bunch of real cheap digital cameras I can put all around. I've done that with tools from Harbor Freight.
I don't know how to tell a redear male from a female. Do we have any good photos?