Nope. I'm pretty white. The thing is, a lot of the reasons people don't eat certain fish are based on traditional notions that are derived from sentiments like yours. Think about it, people will eat a shitload of catfish, a fish that eats live and decaying flesh, but fail to eat a drum that eats far less disgusting material than a catfish. I'll eat just about whatever I catch, but catfish are probably my least favorite. Both white bass and drum are pretty decent eating. I'd say they're on par with smallies or largemouth....

Keep the whiskey away from this guy ^^^

How do you cook a drum? Do you treat them like a carp? Whoops, saw you answered this earlier. So sorry

Here's a nice rainbow I nailed at Taneycomo's trophy water. Sorry the picture isn't great, but it's a screen cap from a video I took. I was trying to lay my phone on a rock and capture a little bit of video while avoiding handling the fish for too long.
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That is such an interesting post, with a lot of information that really I didn't think about as being true, but is. My family is predominantly Indian/Irish, I have more Cherokee Indian that anything else in my composition, and my family (dad's Indian side) has always stayed away from drum fish. My great grandmother was appalled by them, but she would eat raccoon lol (I don't partake in that either).

Ross Geller lookin ass ninja

I'm a terrible fisher, but had a fun day catching on Sunday. Ended up catching 2 large mouth, 2 white, blue gill, cat and a drum. Just pulling in that many fish in a weekend would make me happy, made for a fun day.

Very nice, Loochy... and since you didn't intend to eat it, props for limiting the handling.

Sounds awesome, those days where you get a wide variety are definitely my favorite.

I posted this in the wrong thread earlier. This is where it belongs.

This is the biggest catch of our Memorial Day weekend trip. That's a co-worker of mine, and my goofy brother with the double birds. I tried to get this thing in a net...lol no chance.

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Damn, That's pretty friggin' cool of ya. Well done.

I having fished with my dad in 13 years so it should be awesome. I rented a cabin with it.

I like oily fish. Generally, fish oil is considered healthy and good for you.

Whoooa nice cat, its hard to tell there but maybe a blue? its no flathead or channel... that's about 30 pounds or so amirite?

Either way, chop it up into pieces, bread it, fry it and that's a table full of food

catfish is gross. (JMO)

i've seen some big record breaking sum' bitches (Blue cat and channel) at Jacomo.

Yep, it's a blue. Caught at our Grandpa's property near Climax Springs. We didn't have a scale, but he was 35 inches.