Freshwater Drum

[JD]

Drum, sheephead, silver bass, etc. Anyone who fishes long enough has caught one, or twenty.lol

Last night we took to boat out to our favorite catfish honey hole. Had a small rain system move in, and temperature and pressure dropped fast. It completely turned the cats off. My wife did hook into a nice ~4 pound Drum on a bluegil head on a circle hook. I pitched it back into the lake without a second thought.

Fast forward to today, and our daughter wanted to see a pic of one because she couldn't remember what they kind of fish looked like. In my quick search, I saw where people were eating them.

All of my life, I never held the drum in very high regard. Probably in the same category as carp. But, I also spent most of my life river fishing. And the only thing we ever ate of the river was catfish (under 5 pounds), and walleye/sauger/saugeye.

So, what says everyone. To eat, or not to eat...that is the question! We don't catch them very often, but I figure next time I will fillet it out and give it a go. Only general consensus I have seen is to eat it fresh, never freeze.

Thoughts? I figure I will try it at least once. Can't be worse than anything else I've tried. I've tried some nasty interesting things in my time. lol

[chickenjohn]

They are kin to Redfish I imagine they would be good eating .

[machette]

Ill try anything once. Those big gar we shoot bowfishing, we cut the back straps out and eat them. To me they taste about the same as cats.

[chickenjohn]

Aug 12, 2012 21:00:48 GMT -5 machette said:

Ill try anything once. Those big gar we shoot bowfishing, we cut the back straps out and eat them. To me they taste about the same as cats.

Machette you can also make gar balls mmmm good .

O do not eat the roe,it's poison so I have heard .