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guess I'm calling it a drum.


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No dummy....its a fish! grin


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Definitely looks like a freshwater drum.

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Really blue on the head. Dorsal fin was folded in these pics.



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yep its a drum.....lil bastards actually have alot of fight in them.....i catch them in the lake every once in a while, when i hook one i usually think ive got a real good walleye or northern and am disappointed to discover a lil drum usually only a pound or two....state record is north of 20 pounds, prolly be real sporty to hook into one that size.....


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Pam cought this one last night in a river trolling a spoon.

I guess they have some kind of fish ivory rock things in their heads, earbones... supposed to be good luck, indians and early traders made jewelry out of them.



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Freshwater redfish.....drum

They are rubbery textured meat....I don't keep them.


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Sheep'shead or fresh water drum.


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Originally Posted by Whelenman
Sheep'shead or fresh water drum.


Correct, Lake Erie is full of them, we catch them all the time when perch & walleye fishing.
They will hit on anything, worms, minnows, trolled worm harnesses, stick baits.....

I never ate one myself, but I've been told their not bad to eat. I think I remember someone saying they are boney.


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Some around here refer to them as Jesus fish as the story goes it was supposed to be the fish Jesus fed the crowds with.

If you look at the bones you mentioned N.D. you will see they have the letter "J" scribed on them though one is the mirror image.

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sheephead...


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It's a freshwater drum.. sheep's head is a salt water fish that looks similar but has black vertical stripes.

In Louisiana, I've seen 'em as large as 50 pounds.

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Drum....thats it.


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a drum would be my answere and isnt that amazing as I had a walleye fisherman here in kansas told me that where ever you catch drum the walleye will be there also.


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Oh it is a good walleye river, no doubt about it.



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I see you your drum and raise you one small grinnle

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Damn those bowfins are ugly!



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We always used the term sheephead, so that is, of course, correct. One time when I was 9 or 10, I got to go with Dad to a FELCO gathering at one of the resorts on West Lake. During the day, there were meetings for the men and the families (Mom had to stay home to go to summer school) ran free. One kid was fishing with a handline for bluegills down through the slats of the boat ramps. The bluegills would come right up between the slats. The big, old sheephead that came out of the depths to bite didn't fit. Can't remember how it got resolved. Another kid pulled off an impressive feat when a bullhead came up to hover with his mouth just breaking the surface. From a distance of about ten feet, the kid stunned it with a well-pitched rock.


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Doesn't look like what I was told was a sheephead (many years ago)? Used to catch them from time to time in the Minnesota River. Friend who told me about them cut one open and showed me the bones in their head(s)???


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