By Greg Wagner
I watched closely as the guy excitedly reeled in the fish he had hooked from a local sandpit lake in eastern Nebraska. Upon landing it, I heard him dismally say: “Oh man, it’s a damn drum, that’s a trash fish, I gotta throw this back.” At this point, I walked over to the man and casually said: “Hey, that’s a nice freshwater drum you’ve caught. Did you know those are good eating if you prepare them right?” “Are you kidding me?” the fella stated. “I am not,” I replied.
It always baffles me why some anglers think certain fish are ‘no good’ or ‘trash fish.’ Freshwater drum unfortunately fall into those kinds of categories.
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