I hate to throw cold water on this thread which is giving a lot of love to eating drum but I didn't have such a good experience. I catch them all of the time down at the big lakes and also had the impression all of my life that they weren't good eating. But realizing I had never tried them last year we were gathering fish for a fry and I kept one to see how it compared. It was nasty -- so bad I couldn't eat it and gave it to the dog. I am not a particularly picky fish eater but the meat on the fish I filleted was dark and very strong to the taste. Maybe I picked a bad apple to fillet for a drum but I am back to they are not good eating fish. Or maybe like other fish like whites and stripers where you need to cut out the red meat under the skin only parts of the meat are good where as I used the whole fillet. Even with catfish I find some are very mild and tasty where others are stronger (I am talking about within the same species - blues / channels, flatheads are always very tasty).

That said I think you should try one and see for yourself if they are good or not. The worst thing that will happen is it won't taste good which is my bet...

kc