I have eaten small drum - less than 12" or so and they were decent table fare. As others have said
one must consider the quality of the water where they were taken. Most rivers in the midwest carry
some kind of pollutant load, which would steer me away from larger fish. One also needs to remove
the "red meat" stripe from the fillet. This tissue is rich in myoglobin, a blood pigment, which gives
a gamey taste to the meat.
BTW... They can get huge
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