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I called my old buddy from just south of Green Bay and he said....

Sheepshead is a Drum....simple, it's a regional (up north) nick-name


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Common names for mammals, fish, plants can get interesting as you will see for the common names listed for this fish.

The look for the Bowfin on the net as shown by tedhorn.

Try this for a start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_drum

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we call them sheephead in lake erie catch them all the time when trolling for walleye.

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Originally Posted by northern_dave
guess I'm calling it a drum.


Yep...Sheepshead if you live in WI.


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Fresh water drum, in W. Texas they call them Gaspergoo, ?? Drum seems simple enough. Caught one this week on a slab fishing for White bass.

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Don't know about the freshwater variety, but salt water drums are prime eating.


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And then there is the sad case of the missing mattabaybee.


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