The chummer apparatus is designed to lower ground or cutup fish chum onto a bottom of a body of water. The chummer apparatus consists of a U-shaped frame that supports a chum tube having the fish chum therein from an upright position and to pivot the same into an emptying position. One of the legs of the frame has a sliding release element thereon that in a lower position arrests the chum in an upright position on the frame but in an upper position releases the chum tube so that it can pivot downwardly into an emptying position.