I'd like to see a picture of it, sounds like a hawg. Once you get hooked on redear, other fish become a distraction quite frankly. Or at least that's been my experience since I was a child. We had a farm pond in New Washington that had HUGE redear and it really made fishing unrealistic to me. We would catch 12 and 13 inch redear by the coolers. My cousin mounted his two pounder out of there. It's a spring fed pond and it just produces, can't get in there now days.