Still researching and reaching out for numbers to the less vocal DrumPro's......we are creating a deadline for submissions..."a call for offers" is the term in Commercial Real Estate wherein the bids are due by a specific date.
4/20/2023 seems to far in the future....so Tournament Officials have selected 1/13/2023 which is Friday the 13th.
Tournament Officials refuse to participate in Zuckerberg/Meta so this will be the only notice unless you call in on the Secret Drum Hotline for more time....
Did communicate directly yesterday morning with Green Beret George who only fished the Spring and caught 39 Citations in three separate week long trips.
May ........2022 George said he was in a big bite with only six other fisherman at the ......spot.
20 citations and an additional 20 yearlings in one day pulled up on the sand at the ......spot. This is rarified earth. There are only a few who have beached or decked 20 Paper Drum in one 24 hour period....Zing, Twins, Savfish, I think Nick, George, TomH and perhaps a few others...not Garbo...
In my mind it is even harder off the beach like George did it....you are standing in sand....you are walking in sand....you are in the water....unless you are stretched out in a recliner spiking it, you are putting in work and it gets harder especially after night falls and you are in the Dark.
If you are a Pier say the one at Whalebone Junction..you can order Pizza....you can lay on the bench...if the bench is crowded you can lay in the lee of the Big House. When you hook up someone else usually nets it for you and a couple others pull it over the rail for you. All you have to do is unhook the Drum and pose for glamour shots and then slide-drop-muff the Drum over the rail and back into the drink...hopefully the Drum lands right.....I have found if you turn the Drum upside down and then slide him over through the crook of your arm they usually land right for me.
If you are really big and have big hands you can grip them by their tail section and then throw the Drum like a fat Dart headfirst right into the water. I actually never have tried this but it looks good until the Drum flips and lands bad.
Quicker they get back to the rail the better their chances. Perhaps when he was in his prime, the greatest caster I have ever been around unhooked one on Rodanthe Pier and then muffed the Drum when he was picking it up....Drum landed hard on the deck and began spouting blood from his gills and I mean pulsing blood, covering up the deck with Bright Red Blood. This Drum was not going to last five minutes out there in SHARKLAND, but the DrumPro dutifully tossed him back per regulations.
I would have kept it as this Drum was DDW (Dead Drum Walking) and I would have given it to a fried of mine who was born on the Hatteras long before they ever thought to build a Bridge over Oregon Inlet.
