Like Bill, I also thought that the sexual dimorphism of northern-strain LMB was significant enough that a 6.5# male bass would be rare indeed.
(Dang it, I had to use Theo's $2 word and I don't know where to send his royalty check!)
Perhaps Snipe seeing males that large is because he is working in the program where they are almost shoving koi down the gullets of their bass?
Of course, I just assumed when we caught big (for Kansas) LMB that they were gals. I think the biggest LMB that we typically caught that had abraded chins and torn up tails were maybe 3.5# - 4# max. I figured these were males that were torn up due to making and then guarding the nests. The biggest LMB we caught in that lake were about 7.5#, and we figured they were female.
However, we never tried to deliberately make a sex determination on a bass, so I actually know literally nothing on the male/female size debate!
