Red drum have been overfished in the Southeast since 2010, according to a new, more comprehensive federal stock assessment to be released this week. That’s a problem for the state’s wildlife managers ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has declared that new restrictions on Red Drum size and daily catch limits will be enforced starting June 20. The new regulations are: Daily creel: 4 ...

N.C. Marine Patrol officers charged a pair of Dare County men on Monday with carrying more than 16 times the legal limit of red drum, according to a news release. The Marine Patrol officers stopped a ...

Avid anglers like me often feel pressured to catch big fish. I must confess: I sometimes fall prey to wanting accolades or gaining favor with colleagues and followers whenever I post trophy fish ...

Autumn is here, and the mature red drum, known as bull reds, have also arrived in the near-shore and estuarine waters of the Carolinas. Each fall, the adult red drum move in from offshore in spawning ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve taken in a lot of new Floridians over the past few years. A lot of them brought their fishing gear. And some of them ask: “Why is the red drum simply called a red ...

Drum fish are given their unique name not because they have drums in their bodies but because they let out croaker sounds produced by their swim bladders. There are around 275 species of drum fish, ...

This is as much a tale about catching a big fish as it about the value of sound fishery policy. Let’s tackle the actual fishing trip first, on which angler Jeff Harsh of Hershey, Pennsylvania features ...

Jack Limroth almost decided to turn his boat back to shore on Day 2 of the Red Drum Rodeo, an annual charity fishing tournament. He and his friend, William Blomdahl, were in the lower Chesapeake Bay ...

When Goram and Pick meet in <i>#5 The Angry Red Drum</i>, Pick is trapped in a television-- and Goram helps break him out. Eventually, they discover that they are brothers in this play that addresses ...