Most anglers fish the bait on or near bottom during a moving tide. • Small black drum — those measuring 14-25 inches — are excellent food fish, rivaling their more popular cousins ...

What makes them even less appealing is their plate appeal. While some Southerners target small black drum for the table, they largely take a backseat to more desirable fish like flounder, cobia, ...

Black drum, on the other hand, are content to mosey around the marsh holes and creek ends where they use their sensitive chin barbels to skim the mud for meals. A small drum's filets have good ...

Small drum moving in shallow-water schools ... 14-30 inches (that can include one drum longer than 52 inches) — black drum remain popular targets of late-winter coastal anglers.

Those black drum - juvenile and adult — spend most of the year grubbing along or near the bay bottom, feeding on a variety of forage that can include shrimp and small forage fish but mainly ...

Opportunistic bottom feeders, black drum have, and will if you can find ... man-made reefs that host lots of marine life, especially small worms and shellfish. Historically, the Chesapeake was ...

Black drum's been doing real well ... Rick] Good looking fish, that would be a small one compared to what we been catching. But that's good eating, some good eating fish right there.

Oversized redfish, big jacks, tarpon and overslot black drum can all be caught in the inlet drifting with small live blue crabs. Speckled trout can be caught around the docks in Palm Bay and Cocoa ...