 41magluva 
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Posted: 7/11/2012 12:08:30 PM
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RPGJoe
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Posted: 7/11/2012 12:17:15 PM
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Posted: 7/11/2012 3:50:23 PM
I hooked one two years ago in Kentucky Lake using a 4" ring worm and a 3/0 ewg hook. It wasn't a huge fish (maybe 8 lbs or so), but it pulled like a tractor.
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Posted: 7/14/2012 9:11:15 PM
Originally Posted By 41magluva:
While fishing near a dam the past two mornings, I have been seeing these HUGE fish swimming around, not interested in our lures at all. Somebody called them "sheephead" but after coming home and searching the interwebs, it seems that they are drum, which many people call sheepshead. They seem like they would be fun to catch, should I use live bait or ham bits or what? Generally on Lake Erie, they are considered a 'trash' fish. We call 'em sheephead too. But pound for pound they do give you a good fight, but really spin around & tangle-up lines!! They are slimey & will bark at you and poop all over you as well! Some people will keep them & eat 'em –– But not I!! |
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Posted: 7/17/2012 4:00:34 AM
They have many names around here and are cosider a trash fish I have ate them and its not bad. We get them on night crawlers or shoot them with bows
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Posted: 7/23/2012 9:17:56 PM
Shit heads, Sheep head, there all the same. Great on the garden, or if you trap they make a shit load of fish oil for coon set's. I've got a fish OHIO pin for a sheep head I got on a charter trip for walleye, Even the Capt. figured it for a 15 lb 30+ in walleye. But not so.
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Posted: 7/27/2012 6:11:06 PM
My Son also got a Fish Ohio pin for a sheephead he caught out by West Sister 4 or 5 yrs ago, that thing probably went 9-10lb, he also foul hooked one out of Lorain last month that probably went a easy 7-8lbs, as has been mentioned they are like a runaway train, fun to catch if you are not on a paid walleye charter.
Originally Posted By AR-Doctor:
Shit heads, Sheep head, there all the same. Great on the garden, or if you trap they make a shit load of fish oil for coon set's. I've got a fish OHIO pin for a sheep head I got on a charter trip for walleye, Even the Capt. figured it for a 15 lb 30+ in walleye. But not so. |
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Posted: 8/13/2012 12:56:35 PM
I enjoy floating down the river standing on the deck of my boat shoot at drum. They are certainly better than carp.
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Ndenway
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Posted: 9/17/2012 9:30:54 PM
they're plentiful in the lake by my house; fun as hell to catch, they're also edible like a carp but there are much better fish to eat.
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Posted: 10/6/2012 7:13:38 AM
17 lbs is my biggest. Ouchita River in Arkansas. Great big crawdads work for great big drum.
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Posted: 10/8/2012 12:27:50 AM
They taste good believe it or not. And no I don't eat carp either. I caught one from lake Cumberland in KY and the taste reminded me of bass.
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Posted: 10/21/2012 12:56:46 AM
Originally Posted By DieselNut:
They taste good believe it or not. And no I don't eat carp either. I caught one from lake Cumberland in KY and the taste reminded me of bass. When I filleted mine it reminded me of bass meat. |
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Posted: 12/25/2012 1:50:13 PM
Buffalo Drum aka: Sheepheads
They literally have got rocks in their heads! Bash ones head open, you'll find a pearl-like stone! |
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Posted: 12/25/2012 2:06:05 PM
Freshwater drum - Way down here in the deep south they are known as Gaspergoo.
Decent eating fish when under 20inch or so length. Any larger and they get tough and often have worms in the meat. Yeah, you can pick them out and eat the flesh. They have a firm flesh so they fry up well. Also do well in gumbo or court boullion. Drum on the hook pull like a sack of rocks. 
Post pics when you catch one. |
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Posted: 12/31/2012 11:28:19 AM
[Last Edit: 12/31/2012 11:30:36 AM by jchewie1]
We have caught several when targeting perch, using crawler pieces on a perch rig. They will often hit half crawlers on perch rigs cast and dragged across the bottom.
We have tried to fry them up a few times, but they tasted very bad. Very fun to catch on light panfish gear though!! |
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Posted: 12/31/2012 12:15:20 PM
[Last Edit: 12/31/2012 12:16:50 PM by Reload_em]
Sheepshead are Freshwater Drums. They can be fun when the Bass are in a hiding kinda mood. I remember them hitting on most anything we would throw out (live bait or corn/cheese).
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Posted: 2/16/2013 10:04:35 PM
I have caught plenty of them on the Mississippi. Filleted, scored, and fried, they aren't too bad at all. Cornmeal batter makes a big difference in how they taste.
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Posted: 3/19/2013 1:53:52 AM
Caught a ton of them in AL on the AL River below Montgomery using mussels(Asiatic clams) while catfishing. Biggest one I ever landed hit a Shad Rap and I thought I'd beat George Perry's world record Bass catch! Fought that thing on 12# Trilene for about 10-15 minutes til I netted it. It was close to 20# and close to 2.5' long! Filets ate good fried in a seasoned cornmeal. Related to the Red Fish caught on the Gulf Coast (Red Drum), that LA Chef Paul Prudomme made famous-Blackened Red Fish. Heard of bigger ones caught in same part of the river.
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