I have eat fresh water drum since I was a kid. When they would run the banks in the fall, everyone loaded up and went to the river. I remember washtubs full of drum, and everyone scraping scales and making a helluva a mess. The meat was chopped and seasoned, then made into patties, fried in skillets, and put up in jars covered with oil. Poor man's salmon pattie. We ate on 'em all winter with gravy and biscuits. Canned mackerel became available for about 9 cents a can, and ended our canning drums. I still harvest a few each winter to grill. Don't want to get too far from my raisin'.
