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[grasscutter]

Brother sent me an interesting article about some history of the area. It seems people have been fishing for drum around here for quite some time.
Around 2,800 years ago the people of Cayo del Oso dug a grave into a clay dune facing False Oso Bay where they laid a 40-year-old woman to rest. Over the ensuing millennia they dug hundreds more graves into the dune, creating one of the largest prehistoric cemeteries in Texas. The deposits contained evidence of repeated occupations of the site from about 3,000 B.C. until A.D. 700. The occupations appear to have been relatively infrequent and of short duration, and likely focused on the procurement of black drum fish.

[Blazin Cajun]

Awesome information....it is good to know more about our area with regards to past civilizations and their fishing habits.

N 27 39.197 W 97 20.288

The coordinates above mark the location.
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[ltorna1]

Could you imagine how many drum were around in 300 AD?

I can just imagine a prehistoric nomadic version of AcousticTennis, padding around in a dugout canou with long unkempt hair (not much a stretch lol), catching drum on some 3000 BC version of fishbites.
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[grasscutter]

I remember my dad telling me once that people would camp on the banks of the channels around Corpus during a drum run and that the place would be loaded with the carcasses and heads of black drum. If so, it makes sense that early peoples did the same thing except that they went ahead and buried a few of their kin while they were there.

[ratherbefishing]

[AcousTennis]

[Bay Grinder]

[Johninaustin]

We used to shoot .22's out there, now it's a subdivision. Finding human bones was pretty common, esp after a heavy rain. We always left them but people would dig out there all the time for who knows what reason.

It was a GREAT place to set crab traps.

[HighTide]