[glock rocks]

My brother had a drum jump in the boat one night years ago when it grounded on a sandbar, the fish was so big it would not fit in the 4' long igloo cooler they had.

who exactly was grounded on the sandbar?

pardon my desert upbringing, but does one bbq a drum?

[carptracker]

A freshwater drum is a fish, also known locally as sheepshead or gaspergou. I could imagine one getting cornered between a boat and a sandbar and somehow jumping in a boat, although it would really weird. (just guessing, I bet this is a misidentification of a silver carp, which is large and silvery like a freshwater drum - but it could happen with a drum, once in a few lifetimes.) Freshwater drum are excellent blackened, but if you freeze the meat it is ruined.

[ChefKeith]

They were in a small (?10-12'?) skif one of the first boats He had fishing at night with a trolling motor and the fish was snoozing when they grounded.

IIRC they gave it to some "brothers" at work and the next day was told it ate "real good", personally I would not waste the wood on cooking it.