Hello

[shadow]

jlaughnlin72, Do you eat those black drum?

Good Stuff, the smaller black drum (up to about 5 lbs) are good eating but the bigger ones like Johnny has pictured there are full of worms. He kept these for a buddy to cut up and use for catfish bait. They worked good too, maybe Johnny will post the picture of the catfish they caught with them. I am running out of time or I would look for them for you.

[Good Stuff]

Good Stuff, the smaller black drum (up to about 5 lbs) are good eating but the bigger ones like Johnny has pictured there are full of worms. He kept these for a buddy to cut up and use for catfish bait. They worked good too, maybe Johnny will post the picture of the catfish they caught with them. I am running out of time or I would look for them for you.

They are actualy parasites not worms, and to this day I can't bring myself to eat one.

[jlaughlin72]

jlaughnlin72, Do you eat those black drum?

No, we didn't eat the big drum, like Shadow said we used them for cutbait to run some jugs for catfish. We did pretty good on them too. I don't remember how long we were out there, just that it was raining on us most of the time.
Shadow got me to go look for the pic. If I remember correctly the total count was 30 nice ones, here they are in a 120qt ice chest.

[wrwest]

Looks like a lot of good saltwater fishing is coming

I get out on the ocean when I can. Saltwater and freshwater I just like to fish

[blindhog]

I fish mainly the Aucilla/Ecofina river areas. But in summer will hang around Shell Point/Bald Point areas.

[jlaughlin72]

Oh yeah and another thing, The smaller drum, you can filet them and boil it in crab boil, and it actually taste like crab meat.

[Kajun]

nice mess of cats! were did ya catch those drum? cameron?

[jlaughlin72]

nice mess of cats! were did ya catch those drum? cameron?

Yes, we fished in the ship channel just on the south end of the Jetty pier. We used to do real well off of the pier til the hurricane tore it up and they aint got it fixed yet, so we tied off to the end of it. We missed about 5 more big ones, broke lines with 30lb test.

[ftpolkkingfisher]

Dwyane,
Yep..those are the ones I'm talking bout. I want to get into some of those Reds and Flounders. But those are some nice size shrimp and crab.