Hello all, I am an avid reader of this forum, but this is my first post here. I was fishing off the Isle de Bois pier in Ray Robert's Lake in Texas, when I caught this fish using a minnow, but I do not seem to recognize it.

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Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!
kbxkb

Black Drum

Thank you! That would be the first time I caught a drum!

Not a Drum, It's a Croaker

Comparing images of drum and croaker, I think it is a croaker too!

Thanks to both of you!

Either or, they are both great eats.

looks like a freshwater drum to me... being he is in a lake its not a black drum or croaker... ( some call it a gaspagoo )
tight lines

You are correct...I didn't look to see where he caught it.

Up here in the upper Midwest we call that a "Sheep Head"

Not a sheepshead. Sheepshead have black vertical stripes and big buck teeth. It's a goo.

Drum is what is looks like to me.

Cut Bait is what it looks like to me!!! It is a Fresh Water Drum.

Freshwater Drum.


People travel hundreds of miles to catch and eat their cousins, the redfish and the speckled trout, yet will throw the freshwater version on the bank and cuss it for not being a bass/crappie/catfish.

They are the only freshwater member of the family, and are a cool fish, and very worthy of your table.

Freshwater Drum have many names. I grew up calling them croakers. Some do call them Sheepshead but there's also a saltwater Sheepshead that's totally different with human looking front teeth.

We always call them gaspergoo or drum. Catch a lot of them on spoons.