Dale Hollow trash fish

Thought I had the world record smallmouth.........

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPNkN7PZUhM[/URL]

Man I know the feeling of hooking a 20lb plus drum and thinking its a giant smallie. in the western basin of Erie we catch drum like that all the time and every single time you're like is it a smallie? and as soon as you realize it isn't coming up to jump you know its a **** drum....they do put up a nice fight though...

wow, thats a big one. i know what ya mean magik, Erie is the drum or "sheephead" capital of the world.

I've been awarded the prestigious title of Capt. Sheephead while fishing up there many times!!!! LOL

They can't resist a curly tailed grub or a Silver Buddy....

Neat video. I caught a true Carp out of Cumberland that weighed a fuzz over 25lb on a jig once. After a short few seconds though I knew it wasn't a bass and had to be something else so I figured big catfish. To my amazement it was a Carp and it hit the jig, it was hooked right in the corner of it's mouth.

Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire.

I love catching those!

Nice fish. How hard was it to get that slime off the carpet?

When you weighed it, it's tail was still laying on the deck lol. Add another 5 to 10 lbs!!

Caught one that size at Kentucky lake last spring. I couldn't keep the drum off my crankbaits. You are right they go strange for deep water like a small then turn to dead weight.

I caught one similar (a bit smaller though) on Herrington one morning. I was fishing alone with one of my favorite crank baits. It was a discontinued model and I was scared I would break off. I was really babying the fish to make sure that the line did not break. Near by was a family getting ready to go tubing. They wached with awe as I landed it. They said they had never seen a fish that big and did not know there was anything like that in the lake. They then asked if they could take my picture with it, and I reluctantly agreed. I lived in fear for weeks that my picture would show up in the news paper with my "Trophy Fish". Glad I have never seen that picture!

have caught a few smaller than that, but still big fish. Why since they like to hit crank baits and jigs are they considered such a rtrash fish?On the gulf one winter near port arthur tx caught one that two of us had trouble lifting out of the water, it was a black drum. The red fish everyone talks about is also a drum. Down in the bayou country they fish for gaspergus, when I seen one that prize was a drum.