Ennis native Gary Svehlak hooked and landed a big black drum, as he described it, on July 11 from the Reel ‘em Inn pier in Rockport, Texas. He wasn’t exaggerating. The black drum weighed 41 pounds and was 37.5 inches long.
“I fought this fish for 25 minutes,” he told The Ennis News this week. Svehlak (SWAY-lock) said he was using a lightweight bass rod-and-reel at the Reel ‘em Inn On the Bay, near …
