fish
Black drum
Pogonias cromis
- Identify
- Deep-bodied, gray-black, chin barbels, vertical bars when young.
- Typical size
- 14–24 in slot; big ones over 40 lb
- Where
- Oyster bars, mud flats
- Scientific
- Pogonias cromis
In the book
The 'single black drum, which were hard to find these days' in the Rabbit Key cooler. A tournament category.
Appears in
Swims with
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Tarpon ('silver king') The trophy fish of South Florida and the tournament's main event. Old Scarface. Rose's 68-inch, 81-pound… Ch. 1Ch. 2Ch. 7Ch. 8 +3 -
Spotted seatrout 'Grass bed fishing meant trout.' Three keepers on the first client trip; Dave's trout off Little Pavilion Key. Ch. 2Ch. 3Ch. 7Ch. 16 +1 -
Mangrove (gray) snapper Dave's 22-incher; the snapper bonanza at the river mouth ('leave that snapper in the water, it'll attract… Ch. 2Ch. 3Ch. 7Ch. 13 +2 -
Redfish (red drum, 'spot-tail') The first keeper Matt ever caught, at Comer Key. Rose's cooler-toppling redfish at the marina. The 22- and… Ch. 2Ch. 3Ch. 7Ch. 8 +1