Blackjack, you got me interested in knowing more about spoonbills. I recall them being sold at fish markets in my hometown on the Mississippi. Turns out that they are not catfish and that they have been around for even longer than bowfin! I have never eaten any, but their meat and roe have an excellent reputation. Since they are filter-feeders, I would love to have a few in my pond, just for variety, but they are said to need running water. Has anyone tried transplanting small ones to their aquatic kingdoms?
I run into freshwater drum when float-fishing with my son in the turbulent water below the generators at Wilson and Wheeler dams on the Tennessee river for smallmouth. They are considered pests by smallmouth fishermen. They have all the fight of a dead possum and usually don�t even seem aware that they are in a bad spot when you get them to the boat. I have never tried keeping one. They also have a (probably undeserved, but I don�t know
) reputation for being wormy, at least in north Alabama, but the net sez that their meat is commercially important for some.
Lou
