We caught these black drum between the end of the jetties and buoy on the western jetty in Bell Pass last June. The picture shows one day's catch. Crab on a falling tide about an hour before sunset produced similar hauls four days in a row. My wife does a great job preparing black drum and bull reds either as ka bobs or fried (the kids call them drum sticks), and it is one of my kids favorite meals.
The oysters in most of Louisiana inshore waters are really hurting right now, and the black drum can easily demolish attempts to establish new oyster beds. It would probably help the oyster recovery to keep all the legal black drum you catch this year.
03-31-2012, 10:07 AM
Black Drum Haul 6/4 - 6/7, 2011
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