Recipe for large Black Drum

[mezz]

For those of you who are thinking about taking a large Black Drum home to eat. A while ago someone had inquired about a good recipe for cooking large Black Drum (in excess of 20lbs). I found this recipe on the net.......enjoy

Ingredients....
Flat cedar board
Spices of your choice
batter of your choice

Season with spices, dip in batter, and cook on a cedar board on an open fire. When done, disgard the fish, and eat the cedar board. This is also a great recipie for large bluefish.

Got a good laugh outa this one and thought I'd share

[lewi99]

throw it back if you want. but they taste good up to 60 lbs above that the meat gets grainy and has a stronger flavor. cut all the red meat out and fry that dude

[Gottheblues]

good recipe but wood tastes better if you cook it for 6 hours.

[mezz]

When stationed in Louisanna I caught , cooked and enjoyed eating many of Black Drum in the 5 to 10lb range. I've never really hooked or took home anything much larger than that. Trust me, if I could put 20lbs of meat from a 50lber in my freezer I would however, it just seems that 8 out of 10 people that have tried the larger drum seem to have hated it. Based on that, I would hate to kill one and wind up throwing it out....let alone the hassel of cleaning it and cooking it......just my humble opinion.

[lewi99]

if you catch one you should eat it fresh. they dont freeze well.

[summerschol]

Brush with olive oil and season like a pork chop and cook on the grill. I love them.

[Reel Time]

Agreed, black drum is tasty. It takes on the color and taste of a mild pork chop.

[seairland312]

Completely disagree. I kept a large black for the first time last summer, ate it fresh and all... definitely not worth killing a fish that's half a century old for a few watery, fishy tasting cuts of meat.

[gus]

Completely disagree. I kept a large black for the first time last summer, ate it fresh and all... definitely not worth killing a fish that's half a century old for a few watery, fishy tasting cuts of meat.

Black drum is scrumptious, you need to learn how to clean a fish properly. There's a lot of waste but when you are done there should be nothing but pure white meat. The red stuff is your fishy taste.

[David-C]

I like them OK, but the worms in the big fish get to me... Won't keep any more of those big black drum. I didn't appreciate how old they were when we kept the big ones before.