Did you keep it? Wonder if the freshwater version is as tasty as it's salt brethren.
And they would wreak havoc on you when long lining or spider rigging for crappie on KY LakeWe used to catch these things all the time back home in the Ohio River. You would catch them while fishing for bass and think you had hooked a monster bass. Also caught them in the tail water below dams while fishing for white bass and sauger. Not a dynamic fighter but they pull hard.
Yeah, when I went to Buffalo, my wife's hometown, we caught a few smallmouth fishing. Erie has a ton of them.There's more color in that one than I ever seen! You catch them along with smallmouth up in Erie. They call them sheepshead up there, and they consider them nuisance fish.... So you can imagine the confusion when I first starting hearing about the prized sheepshead at the coast (completely different fish). They do fight very hard! Congrats on the first one!
I imagine they are native to the Staunton and Dan rivers which feed Kerr.Who in their right mind released freshwater drum into Kerr?
A Wiki page on drum says the eastern Appalachians is a native region and no there seems to be no management plan for them anywhere. Other info I found says the Kerr population is small but fairly stable and has produced record fish for both VA and NC, with weights in the low 20s. Not as sexy as a LMB or striper, but I would be happy to catch one.I imagine they are native to the Staunton and Dan rivers which feed Kerr.