CLEVELAND, Ohio — Jerry Darkes is a noted local fly fishing master, an expert fly tier and author, and travels the Great Lakes for trout, resulting in his recent book, the colorful “Essential Flies ...

Freshwater Drum — a.k.a. sheepshead — exist in lakes, rivers, and streams across a large portion of the U.S. They can weigh more than 20 pounds and they fight with the same bulldog energy as their ...

A sizable fish kill of freshwater drum, also known as sheepshead, has happened on portions of Lake Erie in the Erie area. “It was specific to the species occurrence due to fairly rapid changes in the ...

I caught this fish in fast-moving water a few weeks ago. You can see the yellow soft plastic lure I was using for bait. Of course I was hoping for a big crappie, large-mouth bass or channel catfish.

I watched closely as the guy excitedly reeled in the fish he had hooked from a local sandpit lake in eastern Nebraska. Upon landing it, I heard him say: “Oh man, it’s a drum, that’s a trash fish, I ...