Thread: drum bite while crappie fishing

You might laugh, but I say keep em and eat them!! If you have eaten Redfish before they are from the same family I believe. Look it up and see what you think. I think drum get lumped into the same category as Gar because most people have just always heard for years they were junk fish.

Daddy always kept the drum, Momma always canned them, us kids always ate them , now I am big enough to say no to drum, but hey Drum follow crappie, and eat said young crappie, always have always will, once they school gets broken up the drum will move on and the crappie will re school and the cycle will start all over again, then the exception to the rule rears its head, not all crappie schools have drum following them, I suggest you fish that school, but not the school up by U highway bridge, they are mine.

I had the same problem with drum last spring but Hut never caught any. When I complained to him he just answered "I'm not fishing for drum"

If my bud measure em was in the boat you do not have to explain anything.

Originally Posted by Bluesraider

You might laugh, but I say keep em and eat them!! If you have eaten Redfish before they are from the same family I believe. Look it up and see what you think. I think drum get lumped into the same category as Gar because most people have just always heard for years they were junk fish.

Where I live we eat them all the time. Taste much like a white bass to me.

I aint eatin no drum, not with crappie in the freezer. Nothing wrong with taking em out of the lake and making fertilizer out of em!!!!!

All you have to do is fish for drum. Then if you have my luck you
won't catch anymore.

Clean em and throw em in with your crappie. Clean white meat you can't tell the difference.