Maybe a fish in the 30-40 pound category? It had to be the case. For me, a petite woman, it felt really heavy! My time to wrestle a bull red drum had come. And I couldn’t squander the opportunity.

Red drum get their common name from their dark red, often reddish bronze color. They can grow to over 90 pounds with the Florida record just over 52 pounds. They should not be confused with red ...

Red drum (then known as channel bass) were not only the primary inshore game fish, but Phillip Mayer declared " When I started to fish the New Jersey coast, in 1893, at such places as Corson's ...