Rick Christian & Russ Elkins - June 24, 2006

© Photos by Mark Primo Miller ©    Hi-Res Source

The crew consisted of Rick Christian and his son Ryan from Olive Branch, Mississippi and Russ Elkins and his son Cody from Morganton, West Virginia. I went to Mississippi State with these guys back in the early 80's. We started in FH-13 and landed a 10 pound and 8 pound red snapper on 12 pound spinning tackle which was some nice sport. We hooked what we thought was a bigger one, but after 45 minutes of battle we were dissapointed to see a bonito come up. Russ had just bought a bunch of new scuba equipment and wanted to go deep, so we headed out to Main Pass block 298 out around the Salt Dome. We made a couple of nice dives out there with 200 feet plus of visibility. We poked a 42 pound AJ and landed a 28 pounder on hook and line. We also hooked a couple barracuda. It was a long fun filled day encompassing 149 miles and 16.5 hours. See their previous trips: | June 2005 | | July 2004 |

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