Fresh water Drum are like white bass for there fillets. Very good eating.
Ibclyde
Loc: Cloverleaf Lakes Wisconsin
Almost Nobody keeps them around here
We caught quite a lot of them back when I was fishing freshwater lakes and rivers here in Texas. We called them Gaspergoo. We didn’t eat them, used them for cut bait some.
Yes they do have rocks in their heads. I was curious and cut some out one time.
flyguy
Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!
Ibclyde wrote:
We can’t keep these off the hook up here in Wisc Lake Winnebago
We feed them to the pelicans and seagulls
They make good eagle bait too.
troyfrd1 wrote:
Also did you get the pearls out(rocks) you can make a necklace or a bracelet from them
You might mention the (pearls) are located under the vertical line locater behind the eye towards the tail, the stones are balance crystals that work like the water in your inner ear !
I tried smoking one but I had a hard time getting them to roll up in the papers
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