You can travel to almost any freshwater waterway in the country and spend the day catching nothing but drum fish. The freshwater drum population is massive in North American lakes and rivers. Whether you’re looking to enrich your fishing hobby or find a more serious angling adventure, here are six reasons to try freshwater drum fishing for yourself: 1. Drum Are Everywhere Freshwater drum numbers tend to spike in June and July, offering anglers a way to fill the weeks before the salmon season starts later in the summer. Drum are the only member of the Sciaenidae fish breed to live in freshwater, and catching a drum fish, also known as sheepshead, is thrilling for many anglers. So I would say they certainly have a beneficial role in terms of eating invasive mussels, and in general being a native fish to the lake.There are many reasons to try freshwater drum fishing. They’re omnivorous and eat a lot of mussels (mainly zebra/quagga mussels in Lake Michigan) along with invertebrates and baitfish like shad, shiners, gobies, and alewife. “They inhabit the shallow nearshore waters, harbors, drowned river mouths, and so forth, although occasionally you’ll catch one a mile or two offshore while salmon fishing. “In terms of Lake Michigan, freshwater drum are a native nearshore species,” Dickinson emailed. Indiana also has no bag or size limits on drum. We do not actively manage this species in Lake Michigan and you are correct that there are no size or bag limit restrictions for drum in the State.” “A pretty good shore fishery has developed along the Illinois shoreline in recent years and I know of people that now targeting drum from shore in Chicago and up the north shore at certain times of the year. “Freshwater drum (aka sheepshead, croaker and gaspergou) are native to Illinois and Lake Michigan,” Santucci said.
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