The fish larger than 35 cm (14 in) exhibit less selectivity and consume mussels relative to their availability in lakes.

During their first year of life, baby freshwater drum eat a lot of zooplankton and try their best to avoid the numerous predatory fish looking for their next ...

17 июн. 2017 г. · Eat or Be Eaten. Drum are bottom feeders that eat mollusks, insects and fish. Favorite foods include bivalve mussels and insect larvae. Drum are ...

9 июл. 2015 г. · As with most gamefish, the fillets will contain nothing more than a few “pin” bones – small secondary ribs that can be eaten, removed after ...

26 июн. 2023 г. · Gaspergou love shellfish when they can get them, especially zebra mussels and other small, freshwater bivalves. They also eat a lot of crawfish ...

Food. Long thought to be a mollusk eater (because of its heavy "throat teeth"), this species actually eats mainly fish, crayfish, and immature aquatic insects.

29 окт. 2019 г. · Filling important roles in the food web, drum also eat plankton and aquatic insects, and immature drum feed game fishes including walleye, bass, ...

In Lake Erie, they have been found feeding on zebra mussels (although not nearly enough to control the zebra mussel population). Distribution: Freshwater drum ...

They can often be seen feeding for minnows, crustaceans and mollusks. A crawdad pitched above them will usually draw a strike resulting in a powerful tussle.