This is for J & J, the Beaver Lake boys!!!

[minnowman]

Caught this one for you today Stinky and JT....put up QUITE the fight on that tiny little ultralight rod/reel. I would have saved it for you StinkyDaddy to eat, but then I remembered that I forgot how to filet it, haha. You are the drum-eating man, right? :D



MinnowMan

[stinkies daddy]

Minnowman, even you aint big enoughto hold me down and eat that nasty thing!

[Jason Piper]

That thing is ugly! I had never seen one before until a couple of weeks ago when a customer caught a 3 pounder then the next day another customer caught a 17 pounder!

[deltacornbread]

Had a teacher in high school who fished for drum. Used to carry me and his son to the dam at Penndleton and drum fish. He marinated in lemon juice and baked in oven. Never tried one then. However, a few years later a friend and I were tightlining for cats on Mississippi. This was in my much younger days when I would try stuff that would not dream of today. Anyway, to make a long story short, we fished all afternoon and all we caught was a drum. Had consumed many Kold Beer that day. Also had some BoonesFarm wine. Well, we had heard of them rich folks that ate fish marinated in wine. So guess what we did? Took tin can, soaked drum in BoonesFarm, built fire and cooked. No, being pretty well soused did not improve flavor of fish. Last and only time I tried drum!:D

[Jason Piper]

Had a teacher in high school who fished for drum. Used to carry me and his son to the dam at Penndleton and drum fish. He marinated in lemon juice and baked in oven. Never tried one then. However, a few years later a friend and I were tightlining for cats on Mississippi. This was in my much younger days when I would try stuff that would not dream of today. Anyway, to make a long story short, we fished all afternoon and all we caught was a drum. Had consumed many Kold Beer that day. Also had some BoonesFarm wine. Well, we had heard of them rich folks that ate fish marinated in wine. So guess what we did? Took tin can, soaked drum in BoonesFarm, built fire and cooked. No, being pretty well soused did not improve flavor of fish. Last and only time I tried drum!:D

That story made me nauseated! I would of thrown away the drum and ate the ash!

[PunchersChance]

Heck MinnowMan right now I would settle for a Drum, beaver is so bad right now I think the catfish are even choking on the mud.

[brevet]

My wife and I were at Reelfoot YEARS ago. A young guy in a boat near us was fighting a huge drum on a 12' cane pole. His dad was skulling him around. Everytime the beast would take a run, the kid just threw his pole in the water. It would pop up a couple feet away.
NO NET! They got it to the boat and released it. It was a great show.

Up here near Chicago, we have a lot of drum in our big striper lake (Heideke) and in the Illinois river. We catch a bunch on crankbaits.

[minnowman]

Heck MinnowMan right now I would settle for a Drum, beaver is so bad right now I think the catfish are even choking on the mud.

Oh yeah? I feel for you guys up there...hoping it will get better, appears will only get worse before better though....we finally flooded over here in OK too. Just a little bit for now. More to come. MM

[minnowman]

My wife and I were at Reelfoot YEARS ago. A young guy in a boat near us was fighting a huge drum on a 12' cane pole. His dad was skulling him around. Everytime the beast would take a run, the kid just threw his pole in the water. It would pop up a couple feet away.
NO NET! They got it to the boat and released it. It was a great show.

Up here near Chicago, we have a lot of drum in our big striper lake (Heideke) and in the Illinois river. We catch a bunch on crankbaits.

Great story! Thanks for sharing~! MM

[Jerry Blake]

The guys I have fishing with me all this week tell of a crappie fishing trip they took down to Louisiana. The crappie weren't biting at all so when they started catching "Fresh Water Drum" their guide told them how delicious drum are with a "White Sauce". Now whenever one of them catches something besides a crappie (white bass, black bass, etc.) somebody invariably pops up with, "Oh those are so delicious with a white sauce".

This is the 5th year in a row that at least some of the group has fished with me and each time they fish 5 days or so. Being from Iowa and Minnesota they really enjoy our spring weather - even when it's cloudy and rainy like it's been so far this week. Their friends are still drilling through 3-feet of ice in Minnesota to get to the fish!