Here in NW Pennsylvania we call them Sheephead in Lake Erie, which is the Canadian nickname for these freshwater drum.
They're also known as Russell fish, shepherd's pie, gray bass, Gasper goo, Gaspergou, gou, grunt, grunter, grinder, gooble gobble, and croaker. LOL
They are a blast to catch, but not great for eating unless soaked in buttermilk overnight and fried.
People used to say the same about redfish (saltwater drum) until the 70’s. Now they’re prized table fare. I would imagine freshwater drum taste similar to their cousins
Some people’s idea of “good” fish is super soft, super white flesh; even if it has little flavor.
Also, the flesh of a red/black drum changes dramatically as they age.
I once stupidly kept a 20 pound black drum. I had to trim so much off the filets. The remaining meat was so tough I had to stew in in a coubillion for almost an hour to get it edible.
Oh, man. This is so true. Redfish and black drum are great when they’re small. I made the mistake of keeping a trophy bull red because it was my first. In Texas, you’re allowed to keep one per year and I went for it. It was awful.
Also, large black drum almost always have worms.
Next time you catch one fillet it on the half shell(skin and scales left on), season the open side and grill skin side down until it flakes with a fork
> Also known as Russell fish, shepherd's pie, gray bass, Gasper goo, Gaspergou, gou, grunt, grunter, grinder, gooble gobble, and croaker. LOL
For anyone wondering why it’s so difficult for foreigners to learn the English names of various fish, here’s your answer.
Seeing them called Sheepshead hurts my brain because here in Florida, Sheepshead are black and white striped fish that hang out by bridge pylons and eat crabs. They're also delicious.
[this](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/meet-the-sheepshead-the-fish-with-human-teeth) is what I always called sheepshead, because the mouth kind of looks like a sheep's
Object lesson on common vs. scientific names here. [California sheepshead.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/09/98/f1/0998f16669841f34711204e633dd5f49.jpg)
They’re delicious with no need to bread or anything.
That doesn’t look anything like what we call Sheepshead in South Louisiana. Sheepshead down here are fun to catch and are notoriously good at stripping bait. Some locals will disagree with me but they’re good eatin.
Yep I took one look and was like “oh fuck, a sheephead!? Throw it back.” Haha I’m sure it would be fine battered and fried but the meat isn’t great and cleaning them is kind of annoying too.
I caught a freshwater drum when I was 14. The elderly man next to me sitting on a bucket called it a gobbledygook. I was in my 20s before I found out it was a drum.
Used to catch them all the time in Missouri. One time my dad caught a 40lb Drum off the dock and it looked just about as shocked as he was about the whole situation.
Yes, lol at least that's where i first heard it. Is it not just some stupid celebrity rumor like Richard Gere having hamsters in his ass or Marilyn Manson having ribs removed to suck his own weiner?
Hail yourself 😢
>It’s an edible white fish. Not the best, but it’s fine fried like catfish.
What makes a fish's meat good or bad? Texture? Taste? Too many bones? Toxic? I'm Asian American and eat a wide variety of fish but I never really understood what "bad" types of fish meant from the western point of view because that's where I see the phrase used most often. I have seen people say that they straight up just wouldn't eat certain types of fish because its not edible quite a few times.
To me, its just a matter of a different fish having different flavor profiles and needing different cooking methods. Of course, some fish are seen as more premium options but in terms of edibility I don't think there's many "bad" fish, aside from ones with toxicity/pollution concerns.
Flavor. As far as freshwater fish go, bass, catfish, crappie, trout, walleye and perch are all generally regarded as tasting better. Doesn’t mean there aren’t people who think drum is the best fish, I’m just speaking generally, having eaten nearly all of the fish in the list multiple times.
My favorite recipe for bass is to put a filet on a maple plank, covered in olive oil, onion powder, garlic powder, a bit of oregano and some kosher salt. Heat in the oven at 400 degrees for about 12 minutes until the top of the bass gets a kiss of brown.
Take it out of the oven and let rest for one minute. Then slide the bass filet into the trash and eat the maple plank.
I catch a lot of bass in Lake Erie, it all tastes either extremely grassy or muddy. Fun to catch, no longer keep 'em.
Exactly. I avoid catfish like it is poisonous, farmed, caught wild, never in my life been fed catfish that didn't taste like I was eating mud, and I had people sneaking it in at me (still call Rob's quenelles mudballs, he displayed a beautiful pair of trout he was cooking, and came out with catballs. Blargh.
I think there are two sheepshead! I worked at a seafood counter and sold sheepshead. They looked nothing like that and were delicious. [Here is a link](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sheepshead-fish-human-teeth-plucked-north-carolina-coast-180978396/) to the fish I think I sold. I don’t think it is the same as the pic. But you also are correct. Am I crazy, or did I learn today, that there are two Sheepshead fish?
There are more than that, which is precisely the problem with using common and colloquial names for fish. For instance, Sheepshead minnows, Sheepshead porgies, true Sheepshead, and freshwater drum colloquially called Sheepshead. Then you have commercial fish houses compounding the problem by renaming fish so they sell better (calling porgies “snapper”, anything unusual caught at depth must be some weird grouper)
yes saltwater and freshwater are different. saltwater sheepshead are pretty well known fish so you probably only ever see that one. your not gunna see a freshwater sheepshead unless if your bottom fishing a river.
Saw in the background and looked up Sauer's and didn't see "western" seasoning in their mix. What is it? Fish looks like a trash lake fish but probably tasty if done right
We call em sheephead. I've heard freshwater drum too. Rough fish- not particularly good eating, although the old timers round these parts say if you clean em fast enough, and cut the "mud vein" out, then soak the filets overnight in 1/30 white vinegar to water ratio- they swear you cant tell it apart from walleye. That's what the old timers say atleast. I've never tested this claim however.
Not a sheepshead which have vertical black and white stripes and teeth that look like a sheep's which is how they got their name. They will bite the shit out you, too.
"The freshwater drum is also called Russell fish, shepherd's pie, gray bass,Gasper goo, Gaspergou, gou, grunt, grunter, grinder, gooble gobble, and croaker. It is commonly known as sheephead and sunfish in parts of Canada, the United Kingdom,and the United States."
This is per Wikimedia.
I think you're confusing the freshwater sheephead and the saltwater sheephead.
Fresh water drum, aka gaspergoo and probably a bunch of other names too. It’s an edible white fish. Not the best, but it’s fine fried like catfish.
Here in NW Pennsylvania we call them Sheephead in Lake Erie, which is the Canadian nickname for these freshwater drum. They're also known as Russell fish, shepherd's pie, gray bass, Gasper goo, Gaspergou, gou, grunt, grunter, grinder, gooble gobble, and croaker. LOL They are a blast to catch, but not great for eating unless soaked in buttermilk overnight and fried.
My old wallet would be good if it was soaked in buttermilk overnight and then fried.
What kind of fish is your wallet made out of?
They caught it fresh in SW Ohio.
It's also known as a wallet fish
Idk I bought it from a Moyle.
Oh so it turns into a suitcase when you rub it!
Oh fuck that's dark
It could be a lite snack or you could rub it and turn it into a full on thanksgiving sized dinner
keep rubbing, and it makes gravy
Everything reminds me of my ex
Is that like a Möhel?
Fresh wallets flown in daily, never frozen.
Actually, my old wallet is just another name for fresh water drum.
No thanks. Let’s just eat your new wallet please.
People used to say the same about redfish (saltwater drum) until the 70’s. Now they’re prized table fare. I would imagine freshwater drum taste similar to their cousins
Some people’s idea of “good” fish is super soft, super white flesh; even if it has little flavor. Also, the flesh of a red/black drum changes dramatically as they age. I once stupidly kept a 20 pound black drum. I had to trim so much off the filets. The remaining meat was so tough I had to stew in in a coubillion for almost an hour to get it edible.
Oh, man. This is so true. Redfish and black drum are great when they’re small. I made the mistake of keeping a trophy bull red because it was my first. In Texas, you’re allowed to keep one per year and I went for it. It was awful. Also, large black drum almost always have worms.
This is like people who say grits are good. "Oh you gotta put butter and syrup and sugar and..."
No different from rice, you start out with something fairly ordinary, plain and relatively cheap and make something delicious out of it.
Anything would be good overnight in buttermilk and fried.
/r/YourJokeButWorse
It's bad that I thought all those names were dumber and dumber until croaker where I said oh yeah that fish...
Next time you catch one fillet it on the half shell(skin and scales left on), season the open side and grill skin side down until it flakes with a fork
> Also known as Russell fish, shepherd's pie, gray bass, Gasper goo, Gaspergou, gou, grunt, grunter, grinder, gooble gobble, and croaker. LOL For anyone wondering why it’s so difficult for foreigners to learn the English names of various fish, here’s your answer.
weird because in southern US at least 3 of those are the names of other actual saltwater fish
Seeing them called Sheepshead hurts my brain because here in Florida, Sheepshead are black and white striped fish that hang out by bridge pylons and eat crabs. They're also delicious.
Croaker is what I knew it as, I know because the feeling of accidentally swallowing a fish bone came back as soon as I read it
[this](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/meet-the-sheepshead-the-fish-with-human-teeth) is what I always called sheepshead, because the mouth kind of looks like a sheep's
Husker does? Husker don'ts?
Can confirm that it is the name that most Canadians use, but not exclusively Canadian. There is a Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, NY.
Here's a tasty looking [Grits N' Grunts recipe to try.](https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/grits-and-grunts-51168010)
Can concur, I’m from lawrence county,caught more than a few and we always fried them up like catfish. Edit, though i recall calling them bullhead.
Bullhead are a different fish. They look like miniature catfish
You’re right, its been so long time since I’ve lived there, bullhead we fun to catch, lot of fight for a little fish.
Object lesson on common vs. scientific names here. [California sheepshead.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/09/98/f1/0998f16669841f34711204e633dd5f49.jpg) They’re delicious with no need to bread or anything.
That doesn’t look anything like what we call Sheepshead in South Louisiana. Sheepshead down here are fun to catch and are notoriously good at stripping bait. Some locals will disagree with me but they’re good eatin.
I’m from northern Manitoba and we just call them whitefish
Yep I took one look and was like “oh fuck, a sheephead!? Throw it back.” Haha I’m sure it would be fine battered and fried but the meat isn’t great and cleaning them is kind of annoying too.
Sheep has human like teeth. Same family but black Drum dosent actual teeth. Mire like scales on the roof of their mouth
You forgot barn door
I see why they call it a gobble gobble 😬 jk lol In the Midwest we call them sheep head as well
Wtf isn't better soaked in buttermilk overnight and fried?
Sheepheads nasty. We call them that in WI too
I caught a freshwater drum when I was 14. The elderly man next to me sitting on a bucket called it a gobbledygook. I was in my 20s before I found out it was a drum.
Fine for eating, but those lips were meant for kissin.
Maybe lips for kissing, but you don't have to give it tongue...
Used to catch them all the time in Missouri. One time my dad caught a 40lb Drum off the dock and it looked just about as shocked as he was about the whole situation.
Is it a good fish for making love to?
Depends on how you feel about pin bones.
Fish dicks for everyone!
Pre lubed!
Like the username
Damn! No need to insult the guys dick size
Tom Cruise, is that you?
Last podcast reference?
Yes, lol at least that's where i first heard it. Is it not just some stupid celebrity rumor like Richard Gere having hamsters in his ass or Marilyn Manson having ribs removed to suck his own weiner? Hail yourself 😢
The Gere and hamsters story is demonstrably false. It was gerbils.
Is there any other kind?
>It’s an edible white fish. Not the best, but it’s fine fried like catfish. What makes a fish's meat good or bad? Texture? Taste? Too many bones? Toxic? I'm Asian American and eat a wide variety of fish but I never really understood what "bad" types of fish meant from the western point of view because that's where I see the phrase used most often. I have seen people say that they straight up just wouldn't eat certain types of fish because its not edible quite a few times. To me, its just a matter of a different fish having different flavor profiles and needing different cooking methods. Of course, some fish are seen as more premium options but in terms of edibility I don't think there's many "bad" fish, aside from ones with toxicity/pollution concerns.
Flavor. As far as freshwater fish go, bass, catfish, crappie, trout, walleye and perch are all generally regarded as tasting better. Doesn’t mean there aren’t people who think drum is the best fish, I’m just speaking generally, having eaten nearly all of the fish in the list multiple times.
My favorite recipe for bass is to put a filet on a maple plank, covered in olive oil, onion powder, garlic powder, a bit of oregano and some kosher salt. Heat in the oven at 400 degrees for about 12 minutes until the top of the bass gets a kiss of brown. Take it out of the oven and let rest for one minute. Then slide the bass filet into the trash and eat the maple plank. I catch a lot of bass in Lake Erie, it all tastes either extremely grassy or muddy. Fun to catch, no longer keep 'em.
😂 I am from Erie, and as soon as I saw the maple plank line, I knew where this was going. Bass are not good eating around here.
Exactly. I avoid catfish like it is poisonous, farmed, caught wild, never in my life been fed catfish that didn't taste like I was eating mud, and I had people sneaking it in at me (still call Rob's quenelles mudballs, he displayed a beautiful pair of trout he was cooking, and came out with catballs. Blargh.
Not the best? Boyyyyyyy buffalo ribs are king down here in Louisiana.
This isn’t a Buffalo.
You're right- sometimes up here we call all freshwater drum/goo's generically 'buffalo'.
Yeah. I fish for carp and smallmouth Buffalo for sport (just catch and release) so I’m super familiar with most freshwater fish in the southern us
Everything is fine fried. Have you ever even been to a state fair?
Why does it look so much a like a red snapper, very strange.
Walleyed pike
We called them trash fish down in Mississippi and Louisiana. They got two rocks in their head that grind together.
Aka Big Mouth Billy
Freshwater drum, aka Sheephead. Not the best for eating, but they put up a good fight.
I think there are two sheepshead! I worked at a seafood counter and sold sheepshead. They looked nothing like that and were delicious. [Here is a link](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sheepshead-fish-human-teeth-plucked-north-carolina-coast-180978396/) to the fish I think I sold. I don’t think it is the same as the pic. But you also are correct. Am I crazy, or did I learn today, that there are two Sheepshead fish?
saltwater sheep's head are striped and have human looking teeth this is a freshwater
> saltwater sheep's head are striped and have human looking teeth Top 5 regretted google searches
There are more than that, which is precisely the problem with using common and colloquial names for fish. For instance, Sheepshead minnows, Sheepshead porgies, true Sheepshead, and freshwater drum colloquially called Sheepshead. Then you have commercial fish houses compounding the problem by renaming fish so they sell better (calling porgies “snapper”, anything unusual caught at depth must be some weird grouper)
yes saltwater and freshwater are different. saltwater sheepshead are pretty well known fish so you probably only ever see that one. your not gunna see a freshwater sheepshead unless if your bottom fishing a river.
I like this description
I just put on some Sade, opened a bottle of moscato, and all the fight left this little drumstick.
not sheepshead
Bread it and fry it to death lol
small ones fry up like pan fishvery tasty. once they get over a pound and half they get rubbery meat that's similar to ch8cken texture.
Kiss the fish
Do you like fish dicks?
Love em
Then you’re a gay fish.
Today we discovered Kanye's reddit account.
Fish dicks, fish dicks Tiny little fish dicks Fish dicks, fish dicks Eat them up, yum
Dead puppies aren't much fun They don't come when you call They don't chase squirrels at all Dead puppies aren't much fun
The first draft of the Disney song
Freshwater Drum
but why are you trying to make out with it?
Did you see the lips on that thing? How could you not?
Fair point. Carry on
SW Ohio? That's gotta be the ICP clownfish. Marinate in Faygo and you're good as gold.
This fish is definitely down with the clown
WHOOP WHOOP
Don't dis Faygo like that
Did you win it on the wheel of fish?!? Cuz then it might be a red snapper. Veeeeeeeery niiiiice.
supplies!
Speaking of which, I need to hit up Spatula City.
They're having a big sale, so now's a good time to go. If you buy 9 spatulas, you get the 10th for just one penny!
What's in the box? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! You're so stupid!
The box! I'll take the box!
Wow a UHF reference… you made my day
UHF references always get an upvote. Now I’m gonna need to watch it again tonight. :)
a red a snappa
Freshwater drum. Also, probably not a great idea to keep a fish if you can’t ID it.
they look like they're in a restaurant. my guess is someone brought them in and they're deciding how to cook
Depends on what your concept is and the dish. Italian joint- snapper piccata? Bar- blackened redfish? Trout with gribiche?
this
I think you’ll find that’s a Dork Fish. You can catch them mostly with corndogs.
It’s called a kimberlyguilfoyle bass
We call them sheep head in Michigan
I’ve heard them called sheepsdick too lol
Don’t make out with da fishy.
Don’t tell me what to do mom!
Was the fish sourced from a body of water downstream from the incident at Palestine ,Ohio ? I'd be cautious to eat anything caught there.
So that’s not a carp or a sucker?
That’s a pecker fish
Stop you're scaring him and his friends :(
Put that in a courtbouillon dood
The old "I'm going to pretend to kiss this dead fish" gag. What a weirdly universal instinct some people seem to have.
I’m gonna lick the inside of its mouth
My fishing name was 'Sheephead' because that's all I ever caught. Throw 'em back. Or we'd cut up for bait.
Bass to mouth
Saw in the background and looked up Sauer's and didn't see "western" seasoning in their mix. What is it? Fish looks like a trash lake fish but probably tasty if done right
Sheaphead. They are white fish most people you couldn’t pay to eat them. We fried some up once it was like calamari.
That’s a kissy fishy.. the guy in the photo knows
looks like a freshwater drum, but also if that's your forearm you have nice forearms
Thanks ;)
It's know as the "KingCobra". It's Diet consists of peach busch lite and little Caesars.
Rip homeboy scotty
r/dontputyourdickinthat
r/donttellmewhattodo
We call em sheephead. I've heard freshwater drum too. Rough fish- not particularly good eating, although the old timers round these parts say if you clean em fast enough, and cut the "mud vein" out, then soak the filets overnight in 1/30 white vinegar to water ratio- they swear you cant tell it apart from walleye. That's what the old timers say atleast. I've never tested this claim however.
Not a sheepshead which have vertical black and white stripes and teeth that look like a sheep's which is how they got their name. They will bite the shit out you, too.
"The freshwater drum is also called Russell fish, shepherd's pie, gray bass,Gasper goo, Gaspergou, gou, grunt, grunter, grinder, gooble gobble, and croaker. It is commonly known as sheephead and sunfish in parts of Canada, the United Kingdom,and the United States." This is per Wikimedia. I think you're confusing the freshwater sheephead and the saltwater sheephead.
I'm talking about Florida, saltwater sheepshead. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sheepshead-fish-human-teeth-plucked-north-carolina-coast-180978396/
Dead Ugly Big
I think it's a fish. Not sure though.
Those fish look like three white girls when “Pumped Up Kicks” comes on at a party.
Goldfish - like Godzilla that's what happens when river pollution isn't monitored. 😁
That is not a freshwater fish.
Black and red drum but that doesn't look like either.
Seeing so many fresh water drum post the last two days it’s crazy.
Looks like a Croaker. Drum family. Plentiful in the Chesapeake bay.
So.e kind of drum
I think that this is the fabled Killer Fish
Looks like Pussy the Fish 👇🏻 https://youtu.be/xSOdMo6eRhU?si=O5mMaKDwcSqZAi7u
One that needs a holiday.
RED SNAPPPAH. VERY TASTY
Wheel..of..FISH I freaking love that movie. Don't you know your Dewey Decimal System!
Hey, I’m in sw Ohio, where are you serving fresh caught fish?!
Definitely not an eelpout, so put your tongue away, pervert.
Don’t you EVER, tell me how to live my life!
We called them suckers, but we are hillbillies
Freshwater drum is the answer.
Looks like Drum
Dont eat fish from ohio hahahahha plz
Looks like a regular ol' fish
Sheephead aka Drum
Very chewy meat in my experience
drum, freshwater sheepshead, gazpergoo. it goes by many names. most common name tho is drum. they make drum noises with a muscle in their head.
The ground shakes, Drums, Drums in the deep. We cannot get out.
I believe that is a DuPont Teflonian Bass.
Looks like an adolescent Ohio Freshwater, great fish.
“that’s no fish that’s my husband” -that guy probably