Update: Fried fish for Father's Day and cooked up the drum. Kept him separate incase it was awful, and let each man in the family have a chunk. Consensus, tasted just like white flaky fried fish. I would bet a shiny nickle there isn't a person on earth who could have discerned it from crappie or sandbass that has been cleaned properly. Bottom line is that they will likely no longer be trash fish around our place.
