Everybody and their brother is catching big black drum right now. I spent the past two evenings near buoys 10 and 8 on the seaside of the high rise. There was a fleet there on Mother’s Day. We fished on Charles Southall’s boat Sunday night. Last night, we were the only boat there. We were not going to go either due to the weather. Tricia and I went out to a movie instead, came home and were eating dinner when we noticed that it sure looked pretty calm outside of our window. Dinner was forgotten. We went out, hopped on her boat, and scooted across the bay. No other boats, but the drum were still thick. Both evenings, any clam bait (we were using chowder clams) on the bottom did not last any time at all. Multiple hook-ups were the norm. Both evenings were constant action until we just did not want to catch another one.

Capt. Jorj Head of “Fish Head Charters”, (757) 262-9004, was out there in the fleet on Mother’s Day. He and Alan Meetze experienced the same action catching multiple drum until they decided to leave the fish biting and run on home.