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Ain't gonna be any drum left in the Arkansas River.
depending on uapb for a answer ???????
Good. Kill 'em all.
Yeah thats right,throw it back and let someone else catch it,it just may be their target fish even tho you'd haveta hold me down and spoon feed it to me.Seen 3 older ladies fishing around the Newport area saturaday and they had 6 bowfins in the cooler and a few drums plus a few crappie and bass.
What if they find out that chicken chit the farmers are putting on the land is killing the drum or the cell phones.Or,stress, maybe the little rock they have in the head is busting knowing someone is going to throw them on the bank lol.
Hey dog, I have no use for a drum either, I always thought that a person was sposed to beat on drums. I know where Turtlebait is coming from to though, those drum put up a good fight for the first 10seconds they are on the line, then they tire out and play dead with little or no fight left in them. But wow the first 10 seconds is fun.
slabntates,
I've won many a bass tourney...for about those 10 seconds you're talking about...hooking up on a big ole drum I thought was a largemouthed bass. Once that big ole drum gets tired and starts circling straight up to the top, it's " it's a got dang drum again!!"
Nimrod,
In the summer, I bet I throw 50-60 a day on the bank. Them soft mouthed suckers can strip a line of all the shad before ya can get to the last hook on a long line.
The lock master at #6 calls me "goo-killa". LA piles 'em high and won't think twice about. Ain't no shame in my game.
Dog my garden is so full of fish , I'm afraid it will smell terriable come planting time.:eek::D
Dog, ditto on the bass tournament wins, that usually get my dander up and the drum dont come out on the winning end of that situation. I hate fishing the on the river during the summer month due to the number of drum i catch, i always try to go into the back waters to catch my bass. Them ole drum have ruined more of my tournament wins that i care to count. But i have ruined way more of them drums day than they have of my tournament days.
Yea, I may need to put tarter sauce on my veggies next summer. LOL LOL Used to feed extra fish and scraps to Hogs but not raising any this winter. Folks made jokes about Hogs tasting fishy and I told them pork chops were great with a little tarter sauce.:D
10 sec....lol your still catching little ones,the thump and the fight the LARGER drum gives a faller they should be rated number one in line breakers.Chopped up drum makes good long line bait too,,,so does 1 1/2lb crappie and small channel cats.
Turtle bait, when you are fishing with 7'6'' heavy action bass rods with twenty pound test, and a half ounce bass jig and one of those 25 pound drum hits, i set the hook so hard that it cause that little rock in their head to break, it makes gravel, they dont have alot of fight when you set the hook hard enuff to rip thier head off and thier lips get loose to.
If you'd get a sharp hook you wouldn't haveta break your boat seat setting the hook on them tough mouthed nasty trashy stinking lg. mouth bass.
I dont have a boat seat, I stand up to bass fish, try again. Them ole bass are more fun to catch than any other fresh water species i have caught. We them big ole flatheads i have caught were alot of fun. I may just have me a bumper sticker made that say
"My bass ate your trash fish":D Or One fro you " My trash fish are bass food":D
My way of thinking the lg mouth should be beat over head with boat paddle and left for turtlebait or throwed on the bank with the rest of the trash fish.
The Ky and smallie in the 2 lb range are worth their wt. in gold for the dinner table..
I've caught 2lb drum and bon'fin that fight harder than a 6lb lg mouth bass,I hope thier blood line doesn't mix in with other breeds of fish.
I used to fish for Green Carp my self. Some of my fishing buddys call the water moccossins , they do smell alike. LOL LOL
I don't know of no fish in a lake that cann't out fight out pull a old stinky bucket mouth for their size.I caught a 8 and 9 lber last year and I thought I was fighting a dink bream....
lol when I see I have a lg mouth green carp on the end of my line I give it stack hoping he will spit my lure out.If it wasn't againest the law I'd throw all ofem on the bank,coons want even eatem,flies even puke when they fly overem looking for something good to eat.
Let hope that the ole groundhog is in the right frame of mind this year, We want this winter to get out of here, bring on a early spring and then a late summer. Once deer season is basicly over I can do with out he cold winter weather.I am ready for the mid 60s during the day and the mid 40s at night for temps.
If we gona talk about a fish putting up a fight it proly shouldnt be on a crappie forum.
O come on now,get of out fishing,I said ky's and smallies were worth their wt. in gold.
When you fry old bucket mouth you can smell his sicking stink for miles,the smell gets inbeded in your cloths and hair.You can tell the differents in a panfisherman and a bass fisherman by looking at his grin and the look in his eyes.
Sheeee Humm yummy to be honest anything below the 2lb. range goes in the cooler,old bucket mouth is fine eating.I too support catch and release of the large bass but think the small shold be thinned out now and then.For a day of just fun fishing I like going to spring river and catching the small P'seeds by the hunderds.
Y'all keep on and Crappie.com is gonna ruin your drum holes and we'll have folks griping about bumper boats on the river...
The drums might be a trash fish but they sure will slam a crankbait and stretch that string!