Virginia Bull Drum Fishing

[obifishkenobi]

Those are some great drum Shawn, I've never caught any that big, any idea how big they get?

The world rerecord is 57" 94# from North Carolina, my 53" fish was around 65# which would beat many state records on the gulf coast and eastern sea board. Virginia and North Carolina are where the biggest ones are caught the guys I fished with have caught a lot of bull drum it was the biggest ever landed in his  boat.

Wow, you were only 4" off a world record, that impressive, I thought that was a really big drum,  concrats Shawn.

I have a plaque coming they have a program where they award plaques for trophy fish of their species over a certain size I caught two fish that where over the 46” inch minimum to qualify.

That's cool, so did you fish with a guide every time you went out fishing there?

No guide, I fished with my friend from college and his buddy, I was there a week and we targeted the big Drum two of the days and caught the puppy drum in the river/back bay near their houses in the evenings, we also targeted Cobia one day and where unsuccessful.