Capt. Mike's 1/7-9th Lump report

[Captain Mike Ellis]

I finally now have the time to sit down and put up a report on the last few days of fishing. I have had 12 anglers in from all over the country. To start my last series of trips off I had Clay and Dennis Pratt, Wilson and Nicholas Ryals, Joe Hill and Andy Younker a group of insurance adjusters out for a day on the Lump. The fishing was steady with plenty of Blackfin tuna coming over the gunnels on chunks of bonito and 7/0 Frenzy circle hooks tied to straight 80lb mono with a palomar knot. The highlight of the trip was an 87lb. yellowfin. Plenty more where seen in the chum slick but it wasn’t my turn that day. So much to my disappointment I had to leave them for another day. Our catch was a mixed bag of snapper, amberjack and blackfin and yellowfin tuna. We filled every ice chest they had with them so everyone left happy.
My next scheduled trip had my anglers succumbing to Mother Ocean so we had nothing to show or report on that trip. I was hoping the weather the next day would be better and thankfully it was. I had Marty Breland Aaron Ogea, Tom Stogner and Glen DePoarbieris who are local guys coming down for a tuna slaughter. And a tuna slaughter was what they got. It was nice to see these guys laughing and fishing like there lives were never disrupted from hurricane Katrina. Several of them lost their homes and have had to relocate. It felt good knowing that for about eight hours or so they didn’t have a worry or care in the world. The fact that we had blackfin tuna boiling behind the boat in such a frenzy made forgetting problems easy. I doubt that you would of lived if you fell in. I think they would have eaten a person like a pack of piranhas. We surprisingly caught most of our fish that day on plastics. They wanted that over the chunks of bonito and poagie. So we gave them what they wanted I had to cut the day short when I couldn’t close the lid of the fish box on my Glacier Bay. At the cleaning table we took a count and had 20 blackfin and four b-liner snapper. Unfortunately the only picture I have to show is from the last day of fishing my camera committed suicide and jumped overboard. So I lost all of the other pictures I had on it. But a trip to Wal-Mart that night allowed me to at least get some picture from the last day of fishing
Capt. Mike
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[Deep_Sea_Gull]

My turn is coming! Just under 2 weeks.

Great report Capt Mike. I'm glad that you are able to spend so many days fishing.