Fresh water Drum or Gasper-Goo

[holdem]

They're good. We fillet them along with white bass and nobody knows the difference.

I used to have them located in Choke Canyon but haven't been in a while.

[fowlwaters]

Better eatin then they look.

[kurt68]

Yes the small ones are good to eat, and we always cut the rocks out also.

[J-Bob]

Love me some goo!! Like Holdem said, taste just like white bass to me. Disclaimer - I spent my formative years in Louisiana.

[Kolpin10]

They are pretty good; however the bigger fish get a pretty strong fish taste.

[Tryton]

They eat just like a white bass. I cut the red meat out of them and fry.

[Stolle]

We used to eat them all the time when I lived in La Grange. We caught a bunch in the Colorado river with crawfish. They really put up a fight.

[Cull]

I have eaten them.

[Johnny]

I haven't eaten any out of freshwater but we used to tear them up down in Port O' Connor growing up. Love em...just like a red fish to me as far as table fare. We never threw them back.

[panhandlehunter]

Goo taste like any other fish out of fresh water.

[charrell71]

I've eaten them, pretty good.

[bigmike585]

Every time we've ever caught one, the friends I'm fishing with think I'm just making that name (gasper goo) up, when they ask what it is, haha.

My uncle eats them sometimes, fried.

[huntnfishtex]

Never ate a Goo, but I've eaten lots of Croaker, which is the same thing in my book, just one is fresh water and the other is saltwater.

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[Bisch]

I've caught a few over the years and eaten them. After they were fried, you really could not tell the difference between them and whatever other fish we fried up with them (usually whites).

Bisch

[muzzlebrake]

Small pumpkin seed drum about 1lb size are pretty good. Bigger they get the meat gets course and slimy. They are a hoot to catch. Best bait is small white crawdads about 2" long or red worms, the kind you dig, not store bought.
They start running up in Red River around the first of June thru the summer.
Denton Creek right off of HWY 377 is full of em and worms really work good in there.