Joe Cermele In February, angler Andrew Quintana made local news in Texas after landing a massive 50-inch black drum from shore. According to the story on Chron.com, Quintana’s fish drew a divided ...

The remark exaggerated the fish’s dimensions, but not by much: Quintana estimated his catch’s length at 50 inches, or more than four feet. Per Texas Parks & Wildlife, an average black drum ...

Black drum is the gentle giant of the gang. The fish ranges from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s most common from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida. In April, black drum begin migrating into ...

Black drum fish produce the bass-like sound by moving their muscles against their swim bladder, Locascio told the Washington Post. Dr. James Locascio hopes to record acoustics underwater to ...

Matthew Dale knew he had a “monster” fish on his hands when it finally began to show itself in the shallows off of Sands Beach in Port Royal after a 20-minute battle. “I was surprised ...

Dale had bagged one very large and very round black drum fish, a species known to prowl the bottoms of nearshore coastal creeks and marshes, using its chin whiskers to detect oysters and other ...