Chesapeake Bay’s Black Drum Beasts 
By Lenny Rudow US Source: sportfishingmag 5/6/2022
Lenny Rudow
Credit: Lenny Rudow
People living along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay love their shellfish — heck, half of them think they invented blue crabs — but the bounty of the Bay isn’t enjoyed only by humans. Not by a longshot.
 

A creature better known in southern climes comes to visit as spring waters warm, ready to gorge on the Bay’s crabs as well as its clams and mussels: the black drum. What’s surprising, however, is that most of these drum are utter goliaths of the species.

 
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