Most of the fish I've cleaned so far have been males. The few females I have cleaned, most of them had egg sacs that were still fairly small, firm, bright yellow, with little blood around them. I did clean one 12 1/2" female that had dark orange, loose, large egg sac. These fish have come from Lou Yager and Glen Shoals. I would estimate that Lou was closer to spawn than Glen before all of this up and down weather hit.