Ok I’m going to try these nastly looking things but I have a few questions. Is there a best time of year to eat these and is there a size that is best? I did keep one once, cleaned it and it was as yellow as butter. Into the taste can it went. Oh I take it a sheephead and a Drum is the same?
Shitthead and drum are the same thing. They really are good if you prepare them right. If you plan on keeping them bleed them out and throw them in a cooler of ice when done bleeding out. Cut out the mud vein and all the dark meet. Some people just eat the upper portion like on wipeass (white bass), but I usually eat the whole fillet.
Sheephead and fresh water drum are one of the same. I like to keep some for pickling in the spring of the year. I only keep the backs (from the lateral line up) and make sure to remove any red meat from the skin side of the fillet. I prefer them to be 15inches or smaller.
I have had the back straps like mentioned above deep fried before and they were ok.
Shittheads and Drum are the same?? 
Can’t wait to tell the wife she just caught a relly nice shitthead 
I’ve heard they are pretty tasty smoked and also heard you don’t need to take out the vain if smoking them. Has anyone tried them smoked like that?
I liked targaman post. I chuckled twice. 
Don’t overcook them and they’re great.
guy i work with said he read in the paper that they did a study in wisconsin…or taste test if you will…
gave 100 people two dif fish labeled ‘A’ and ‘B’, didnt tell them what two kinds of fish they were, only they both were cooked the exact same way and to pick which one they liked better, apparently the whole point was to defeunct the popular belief that one fish was better eating than another and that most people couldnt really taste differences between them….
well when it came down to it 90% of everyone chose ‘A’, which was sheephead….’B’ was you guessed it…WALLEYE lol
This may be grounds for a “shitthead” forum!!!
I nominate Bk for president…… 
I totally believe that. I think any fresh fish will taste good. I wonder why we were tought that sheeps are bad??
When I was a kid my dad tought us that crappies (called them specs) were not good eating. We threw them all back. I didnt find out different until I was in my teens.
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I nominate Bk for president……
I have never been brave enough to think of eating one.
Not sure why drum have gotten such a bad wrap here. You can find freshwater drum fillets at Cub Foods, they can’t be that bad..
They are pretty good eats from ice cold water in the spring time. My father-inlaw would eat them in the summer but one thing he always did was soak the fillets in ice water for a few hours before cooking them. Good eats then.
It makes some sense. Sheephead are a cousin of the Red Fish and people eat the heck out of them down south.
Holy crap, I could have delivered a semi load of them after being onm pool 7 for 4 days. We each caught hundreds of them. Dang things will eat anything. I swear they are like cockroaches – There will be a nuclear holocaughst and those dang things will be tyhe only fish to survive. 
Yea. Them and catfish.
Had same idea last year after someone told me I was throwing good fillets back. Threw one in the live well. Hour later the live well was overflowing. The [censored] had puked enough zebras to plug the live well drain. Had to use muriatic acid to get them out. Cooked the [censored] out of him and still through it away. They are all yours.
Talked to the very experienced gentleman that owns the trailer next to Everts and this was coroborated by a third source. They need to be cleaned alive for best flavor… When they expire an intestinal enzyme is released into the system and tastes HORRIBLE.
He said several of the “old timers” discovered that…they have a flavor similar to white bass when prepared correctly
I think they taste good, eigther that or my tastebuds are out a whack. Deep fried in very hot oil with alot of tarter sauce and they are good eating, too me anyway. Right out of the deep frier and on the plate then hit with cold tartar sauce, think I’ll have fish tonight for dinner.
The darn things are great when they come out of the smoker.
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Cooked the [censored] out of him and still through it away.
I guess that answers what you did wrong…you are suppose to remove the chit before you cook them 
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Cooked the [censored] out of him and still through it away.
I guess that answers what you did wrong…you are suppose to remove the chit before you cook them
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This may be grounds for a “shitthead” forum!!!
I nominate Bk for president……
You know thats pretty funny when BK doent reply in the 1st day 
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This may be grounds for a “shitthead” forum!!!
I nominate Bk for president……
You know thats pretty funny when BK doent reply in the 1st day
Oh i’m sure he’s just changing Tuckners diaper again…. 
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I’ve heard they are pretty tasty smoked and also heard you don’t need to take out the vain if smoking them. Has anyone tried them smoked like that?
I have tried to smoke them but they are really hard to light
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The darn things are great when they come out of the smoker.
Well you guys are more than welcome to my share of those monkeybutts. Less time I will have spend unhooking them while I fish for some real fish. 
They aren’t bad eating, I kept some small ones off of the St.Croix yesterday, we are going to have a fish tasting contest, we have walleye, pike, sunny’s, sheephead, and I’m going to get some small cat.
Buddy of mine uses them in fish chowder. Tastes pretty good too.
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