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 drum for bait?
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04/06/15 03:09 AM
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dieselpower97
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does anyone know if you can use drum for cut bait like carp or blue gills? or is it a game fish. just wondering, i have caught some and just wondering. Thanks
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 03:44 AM
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Bluecatkayak
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Totally legal! I hear they are fantastic gar bait in the right situation
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 10:46 AM
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Ken N Tx
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does anyone know if you can use drum for cut bait like carp or blue gills? or is it a game fish. just wondering, i have caught some and just wondering. Thanks They are the best fillets and eating!! The wife and I love them!! She bakes them fit graham cracker coating...Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 12:00 PM
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BrianTx01
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I have caught several hybrids and stripers off of drum filets.
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 12:39 PM
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redchevy
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Kinda a cross over fish to me. They eat good. Have also caught some nice flatheads and blues on live ones.
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 01:21 PM
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mjmetro0719
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I do pretty well with cut drum
Mike
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 04:46 PM
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fmrmbmlm
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Caught one on Granger last week that measured 30 inches long and 21 inches around. Guess it weighed close to 20 lbs. Would it have been good to eat? I let it go, didn't want to carry it up hill to my car.
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 04:59 PM
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Muzzlebrake
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Small pumpkin seed drum about a pound or 12" eat good. Fillet and remove the red meat like sand bass. They are better eating than those green trash fish IMO. I don't care for big drum. Fishy tasting and slimy when cooked. They are sure fun to catch. Best bait for drum is small white crawfish about 2" long.
Red River is loaded with drum about June. Never used any for cut bait.
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 05:53 PM
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flat1
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They are legal to use, but I can't believe what my local game warden said. He said it is illegal to take a drum by throw net and use it for bait. Does anybody know if this is true or bs?
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 07:10 PM
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HumanSeine
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I don't know how he could tell how you caught them. Everyone I catch for bait
is with my fishing rod for sure.lol
Last edited by HumanSeine; 04/06/15 07:11 PM.
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/06/15 08:42 PM
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dieselpower97
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Thanks everyone, i have kept them to eat before, they not bad. but only got one this weekend and did not want to clean it, so i cut it up for bait and froze it till next time.
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Re: drum for bait?
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04/07/15 09:15 PM
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fmrmbmlm
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Caught one on Granger last week that measured 30 inches long and 21 inches around. Guess it weighed close to 20 lbs. Would it have been good to e
at? I let it go, didn't want to carry it up hill to my car. Had a senior brain fart, was a buffalo not a drum. Still would like to know if it would have been good to eat.
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