about when and how long is the black drum run in galveston?

The drum will start coming in on the Galveston Beachfront around mid March and will increase as the water gets warmer . Now if you are talking about the BIG BULLS they usually hit around Mid Feb at Texas City Dike

Like this?

Dang, thats a hell of a fish!

my buddy caught a 41" 35lb black drum while we were wading rollover pass a few days ago, just after dark

caught it on a 1/4 oz jig w/ gulp

like this 47 pounder---

thanks!! thats the info i was looking for!!

black drum has to be the ugliest fish EVER! It looks like the ol' grandpa of the sea

the "Big Ugly"

Hey I resembile that remark

May be ugly but she does pull hard
We target march 21 to head down to TCD

thanks rp!!! i need to get the number to one of the bait shacks down there, so i can talk to them when the time is near!! i'll go to cameron and buy a bunch of crabs, as i hear they go for as much as 5 bucks each during the run.

Hi,
MY NAME IS Jerry Rider most people know me as the Okie Noodler. I'm coming to Texas City in mid Feb. for the drum run. Can anyone tell me where is the best place to buy bait?

Thank You
1noodler@msn.com

Buy the way I didn't name the show the producer did. I'm just a fisherman.

i'm going to La to get crabs to fish with, i hear they go for 2-5 bucks apeice during the run

ttt

Just get some shrimp and peel them. Thread them on the hook like a worm.
Much cheaper...

cheaper, yeah, but not as durable, and all we want to catch are the big boys. Everything that swims in the gulf eats shrimp!

When the big uns are thick this will catch them. You might get lucky and reel in some other fish too. I dont like crab because they costmore and ussually get picked apart instead of eatin by a sizeable fish...

I dont fish for these in Texas. But when I fished for them in Florida we would use clams for bait. And catch MONSTER black drum off the Sebastian Inlet Pier. Bust open the clam, mussle, oyster and slap it on the hook. They cannot resist it. Now for Texas I dont know that they sell them here. Like I said I never really targeted black drum in Texas. But I do catch alot of them while fishing for reds using Menhaden. I promise you if you can find some clams or musles you cannot go wrong for bait with these brutes.

i always liked to use sand crabs. caught them late at night, and put em on a hook the next day. kept em live in an old cooler. Biggest speck I have ever caught was on a sandcrab late one night. I think everything will eat sandcrabs

Plus it can be time killing fun, drinking man soda and cahsing those little boogers around!