Freshwater Drum
Aplodinotus grunniens
No minimum length limit or daily bag limit for freshwater drum.
Identify your catch
Silvery, deep-bodied fish with a divided dorsal fin; lacks the tail spot of red drum.
Habitat on Worth
Standing timber, boathouses, docks, piers, rocky shoreline and brush provide habitat.
Fishing approach
Lake guide guidance: TPWD describes bass near rocky banks and boathouses, crappie near reed beds and dock brush, spring white bass upriver, and catfish throughout the reservoir.
Fishing guidance describes documented approaches, not a promise of fish activity today.
Women of childbearing age and children younger than12; four-ounce meal: At most 1 meals per month; 4 oz per meal. Women past childbearing age and males12and older; eight-ounce meal: At most 3 meals per month; 8 oz per meal.
Harvest permission and eating restrictions are separate.
General species guide
Often feeds near the bottom on fish, crayfish, insects and mollusks.
General Freshwater Drum profile →Sources & lake evidence
TPWD lake guide and reviewed fisheries evidence establish the listed species or group. Historical survey records do not establish current abundance.
Lake harvest rules ↗Eating guidance ↗Lake habitat & fishing guide ↗Fisheries survey · species evidence ↗Species identification ↗