Pat McGriffs special NFGFC fishing report

[Jumptrout51]

I had asked Captain McGriff to give NFGFC a current report just before our Keaton Tournament.
He is always eager to help NFGFC anglers.
Here is his report:
Here is your up-dated report for this week including the report which will be in Friday's paper

update:for North Florida Gulf Fishing Club

I fished yesterday in 10-12 kts early with overcast and caught 6 trout to 19 inches near Dekle on Renegades in the "Electric Chicken" color always a great color for high, bright yet overcast( no Shadows) days. I threw six other colors without a strike while clients used EC etc.

.........then the sun popped out and that bite was done. the w-i-n-d subsided to around 8-10 kts

so I took my Assassin Chandeleur Isle five inch shads under a 23 inch leader on Cajun, up north and we had two 17-18" trout and live shrimp caught a red and one trout.

........then the w-i-n-d kicked up tp 15+ knots and the north (above Warerior in 3 -3.5 ft bite was silted up and closed out.

so with 9 in the box, I worked my way back south untill I "hit" the right color combination, and found an area in 2 - 2.5 and we caught 6 more fish 19 -24 inches and brought in a limit of 15 trout with three over 20 " and the kid lost the best fish 4.5 lbs and a purple-head renegade still in her mouth (yikes) ( the lure of choice for those six .....larger fish)

we caught the six after the tide flipped to go out, while the south w-i-n-d held the water in there longer and that provided the late, shallow bite.

If this w-i-n-d today kicks up the silt north I would expect on Saturday, to have to locate fish in 4-4.5 in first half of the tide then move to 2.5 tol 3 in fourth hour of tide and finally in last two move to 2 -2.5 ft. I can't find a fish ( on this negative tide ) in less than 2'

Newspaper Fishing Report;

Trout fishing has been ineteresting, and tough, for keepers over the weekend due to w-i-n-d? I fished with Joyce, Sunday afternoon on the fralling tide, and we landed six keepers with the largerst, 23 inches long, which hit an Assassin five inch shad in the Chandeleur Isle color.

I got on that bait, Thursday March 13th, when it accounted for our top six fish for Mark Shoemaker of Plymouth, Maine and Ed Fenelon of Chicago, Ill. of our fourteen trout and one ( beleive-it-or-not) black drum, which ate a shrimp under a Cajun...? I have caught a lot of drum..... but never with a float? We fished 3.5 - 4.5 feet of water.

Wednesday, last, I took Chuck Rigoni ( originally from Perry) and Lynn Buckalew of Mississippi with Kurt Bay of Mercer Isle, Washington out and we brought in ten trout and three reds while fishing live shrimp and pinfish under Cajuns in 2 - 4.5 feet of water. Kurt got a 24 inch sow trout to top our string.


From Ashley Mock of Warrior Inshore Charters: I took Ray Connors from Austrailla on the 11th we fished seven hours for 10 trout our big fish was 24'' at 4.4 lbs caught all our fish in two foot of water on Bite-A-Bait's clown color and 5'' Redfin in Silver.

Myself and Steve Taylor fished the 1st Team Seatrout tournament the 16th to only catch eight trout our best five went 13lb. 11oz'. which was good enough for 1st place caught on Spooks and Renegades.

Saturday, Gabby Hanger, Lee Musgrove and Don Newham of Valdosta, and Moultrie, Ga. had 13 trout with the largest 19.5 inches long while fishng berkely Gulp under a Cajun Thunder in 5 feet of water. This trio caught and released 75-80 shorts enroute to the 13 keepers.....yikes.....that Gulp keeps you working?

Wade Jernigan and Jason Clark with 3 more guys fished Sunday and got 11 keeper trout two blues and one Spanish. tey had 6 trout Monday in the w-i-n-d. They are from Opelika, Alabama.

David Bosch with Peng and Calvin Chee of Tifton, Ga. had seven keepres Sunday fishing live pinfish, Bit-A-Baits and "a bunch of other stuff", Sunday.

Sunday, March 16 Tommy Morris and Wille McGhee of Alapaha, Ga. had 7 trout gulping?

Greg Collins of KB landed a 24 inch just under five pound trout, Sunday.

No offshore report......





later good luck I hope the weather forecast holds good for you guys! and girls !
later pat
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[snatch-n-reel]

Thanks for the info JT

[captkeyser]

Thanks for the info JT, that blows my mind that Pat is catching larger fish in 4ft + water. I didn't think they would be out that deep yet. Good to know, but I'm stayin shallow.

[birddog]

Thanks for the info JT, that blows my mind that Pat is catching larger fish in 4ft + water. I didn't think they would be out that deep yet. Good to know, but I'm stayin shallow.

Capt. Pat says that every year and I still find my larger trout in shallow.

[Jumptrout51]

Capt. Pat says that every year and I still find my larger trout in shallow.[/quote]

True. But Capt. Pat is catching keepers BD.

[birddog]

alright