Thread: not crappie but fish

Originally Posted by G.Gordon

That must not have been a drum you cleaned and cooked for your kid. Drum are clean white meat, if I catch one big enough to clean, I keep it, it goes in with the bag of crappie and nobody can tell the difference. Matter of fact, spring camp 2014 I had two drum that went in the fish that attendees ate. It is good and clean, they are eating the same thing crappie and bass eat that is why we are catching them using the same bait.

Thanks for the insight. I was curious what they were like.

Originally Posted by G.Gordon

That must not have been a drum you cleaned and cooked for your kid. Drum are clean white meat, if I catch one big enough to clean, I keep it, it goes in with the bag of crappie and nobody can tell the difference. Matter of fact, spring camp 2014 I had two drum that went in the fish that attendees ate. It is good and clean, they are eating the same thing crappie and bass eat that is why we are catching them using the same bait.

you tell me then, I posted a pic of it.

We eat drum all the time. the texture is close to bass. Just make sure to cut out all the red meat on the fillets. Under 3 lbs is the best size. Easier to clean. They smell like fish when cooking and taste like fish when eating. If you have bigger ones they can have some fat on them and you want to cut that off also.

I have to admit we ate one last summer I eat half and somebody else eat the other half and didn't even know it. It is white meat with a meaty texture.

Nice mess of drum! They are fun to catch for sure. Good to eat, too but it seems like they have a better flavor from colder water. I compare them to eating a white bass. A drum out of stagnant water in July will have a stronger flavor. it helps to put them on ice as soon as you catch them, because they die fairly fast, even in a well oxygenated bait tank.. I mean live well.

You caught way more fish than we did this weekend, I guess I should have been using worms and minnows instead of slab-sized shad. In my boat, the only bite we had was a 10lb blue. My buddy's son caught a lake nice sturgeon, though. The young man gave it all he had, but dad had to lend a hand this time. Those fish are like hooking a Mac truck!

If they hit topwater people would figure out some fancy recipe to cook em and call em a gamefish. I will say a good 8lb'r in deep swift water on a light rod and 6lb test will make you wonder what in the heck is on the other end of that line.

Drum are close cousins to Red Snapper, right? And Red Snapper is an in demand fish in the south coastal areas.