My first saltwater fish after moving to Chincoteague Island. Virginia
Nice buddy! I am down here in Chesapeake surf fishing kicks ass.
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by virginialiberty
Nice fish. Can you eat it?
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by robmaybedead
Yes it's a Drum.
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by FabioQuervo
I don't know about Virginia, but in Texas it's blasphemy to call a saltwater drum just "drum" because people automatically think you're talking about the nasty fresh water drum. That would be a black drum, until it hits about 25in, then it's called a big ugly.
We also call red drum redfish, and spotted sea trout are also in the drum family, but we just call this specks or speckled trout. Specks are similar to weak fish over there.
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by TrailChaser
flyguy
Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!
It looks like it made the "big ugly" class, and I will bet that it was fun to catch but I would not eat it. The big ones are wormy. The smaller ones are fine.
Wormy ? In june? For all Salt water fish?
Wormy ? In june? For all Salt water fish?
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