Drum in Rappahanock

[RiverDaddy]

Do drum come up into the Rappahanock?? I saw a dead drum near Urbanna over the weekend. It was 3-4 feet long and had to be 30 lbs.

How do you fish for them?

Riverdaddy

[MrJsPleasure]

We sometimes hang them bottom fishing on charters all I have hung have been on oyster beds up around where old bouy 9. Normally crab is what get the bite. Haven't hung one this year and we never get them in on the light stuff I bottom fish with. We get them close the client see the big fish the fish sees the client and the impending fish run and jerk by the client nomally parts the line. We do catch the juviniles later in the year but all the big ones are 40 plus pounds.
You never know whats swimming in the Rapp Josh hung either a gaint catfish or a cobia off the pier last weekend that had everyone on the beach coaching him on how to fight the fish he fought for over 30 minutes before loosiing him. Ive caught one cobia off that same pier and lost a few. The guys on the beach are still talking about the tail on the fish they saw so no Ray. If it swims in the bay in it swims in the Rapp too.

[bozwell]

I've cauhgt BD at the PL towers at Garretts before.

[C.C.S.]

If you're talking about pups, i caught two 16" last weekend near Robinson Creek in the shallows.. 3-8' of water..both caught jiggin' soft plastics.

[FishinAddiction]

yeah i caught several pups last weekend myself in the whitestone area