6.5 LB Male Largie!

Someone had forwarded this article on to me. 10 LB + fish are biguns, but a 6.5 LB Male, that’s amazing!

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Texas Anglers Continue To Land Lunkers
Friday afternoon David Utz of Lovelady did what no other angler in the 20-year history of the Budweiser ShareLunker program has done: Caught 13-pound-plus fish on back-to-back days.
About 6:00 p.m. March 3 Utz pulled a 13.03-pound bass from Lake Ratcliff in the Davy Crockett National Forest, the day after he caught a 13.65-pounder from the same lake. His entries became numbers 402 and 403.
Utz was using a jig and pig in 5 feet of water. The fish was 25.25 inches long and 20.75 inches around.
Three other ShareLunkers were caught over the weekend. Dr. Mark Smith of
Allen caught number 404 from Lake Fork Saturday. The 14.09-pound fish was 24.75 inches long and 21 inches in girth.
Later that same day Tanya Sorter of Hemphill reeled in Budweiser ShareLunker number 405, a 14.25-pounder from Toledo Bend Reservoir. Her fish was 25.75 inches long and 22 inches in girth and was caught on a Rattlin’ Rapala.
Both the Smith and Sorter fish had alread y spawned.
Sunday morning Trey McCollum of Nacogdoches caught a 13.13-pound bass from San Augustine City Lake, a 200-acre impoundment stocked with Florida largemouth bass in 1979, 1980 and 1992. McCollum was fishing with a Beetle Spin. His fish was 26 inches long and 20.5 inches around, and like the other three was in water between 3 and 5 feet deep.
One angler—Jim Gore—had two entries into the program on the same day, but one of those entries was a 6.5-pound male, the only fish of that gender ever entered into the program. It was the largest male largemouth bass Budweiser ShareLunker program manager David Campbell had ever seen, and he wanted that fish’s genes incorporated into the ShareLunker breeding program.
The total number of entries for the current season now stands at 15, with nearly two full months left.
Anglers legally catching a 13-pound or bigger largemouth bass in Texas waters may enter it into the ShareLunker program by calling Media Contact: Larry Hodge, (903) 670-2255 or by paging him at (888) 784-0600.
For information on the Budweiser ShareLunker program, including current and previous season records, go to http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc/budsharelunker/.

The Budweiser ShareLunker program is made possible through support from Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Since 1991, Anheuser-Busch, in partnership with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, has contributed millions of dollars in funding to support conservation causes and fishing, hunting and outdoor recreation programs in Texas.

Media Contact:
Larry Hodge

What a Bull! Glad to hear that he entered it into the program. I gotta wonder how he knew it was a male. I cannot absolutley tell the difference. I just assume when I catch a really big fish that it is a female.

Im guessing he caught the female and male off the same bed- (it says he had 2 entries in one day- maybe he caught one then the other back to back and suspected the smaller one was a male). Otherwise, maybe like they said in Kindergarten cop- “boys have a p.., girls have a v..”