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We had a great turnout for the Tournament 34 boats showed up at Keaton Beach Marina ready to catch some fish. The conditions was not so great early with 33 degree temperature but with light winds it was not so bad of a day.

The team of Brian Hurley and Jr Dice was awarded Top Honors with 5 Trout weighing 12.10 lbs and won $370.00.

2nd Place went to the Team of Jeff Trent, Austin Trent and Chuck Collins weighing 5 Trout at 11.96 lbs worth $222.00.

3rd Place went to the Team of Lucas Ross and James Ross with there 5 Trout weighing 11.65 lbs worth $148.00.

Nicole Christmas caught the Biggest Trout of the tournament weighing 2.73 lbs worth $310.00.

Rick Bushatz caught the 2nd Biggest Trout weighing 2.68 lbs worth $50.00 courtesy of Tom Wheeler of
Custom Detailing.

Keith Couce won the Big Redfish Pot with a 6.68 lb Red worth a whopping $660.00.

The Badcock and More Mystery fish rolled as nobody caught a Cobia. Next month whoever weighs the heaviest mystery fish will win $300.00 courtesy of Jay Evans and Badcock and More.

Current Leader for the Matthews’s Fishin Stix Big Redfish of the year Keith Counce 6.68 lbs.

Congrats to all the winners and I hope to see everyone at the next Tournament April 9 2011 at Econfina River State Landing.
Fish Big Fish Weight Points
Brian Hurley, Jr Dice 5 2.65 12.10 100
Jeff Trent, Austin Trent, Chuck Collins 5 2.49 11.96 99
Lucas Ross, James Ross 5 2.47 11.65 98
Rick Bashatz, Dalton Bushatz, Brad Castleberry 5 2.68 11.58 97
Steve Hobbs, Huck Fin, Kathy Knous 5 2.26 11.28 96
Pat Irwin, Casey Cook 5 2.44 11.23 95
Brett Brantley, Kyle Blue 5 2.29 11.11 94
Brian Showman , Matt Cramer 5 2.48 11.06 93
Matt Howell, Kim Howell 5 2.35 10.79 92
Jayson Blue, Tony Sadler 5 2.28 10.61 91
Michael Aman, Kevin Wright 5 2.40 10.50 90
Steve Taylor , John Vickers 5 2.61 10.49 89
Gary Zellner, Michael Flowers 5 2.36 10.18 88
Chad Frost, Shelly Frost 5 2.56 10.15 87
Steve Stinson, Steve Goodwin 5 2.08 9.98 86
Ashley Mock, Nicole Christmas, James Christmas 5 2.73 9.83 85
Tad Davis, Matt Burke 5 2.49 9.78 84
Dale Evans, Duke Evans, Mike Sorrel 5 1.78 9.48 83
Chris Lewis, Grayson Lewis, Jeff Pettis 5 2.25 9.41 82
Matthew Jacobs, Christy Jacobs, Robbie Beardon 5 2.30 9.12 81
Tripp Aukerman, Bill Hackelton, Carson Ulrich 5 2.13 8.25 80
Dewayne Smith, Eric Slaughter 5 1.80 8.23 79
Wil Harms, Brett Fain, Jake Woods 5 1.78 7.18 78
Dave Lear, Joey Landreneau 4 2.06 7.15 77
Bob Hoelzle 3 2.11 5.28 76
Tom Wheeler, Avery Wheeler, Raymond Sims 3 1.69 4.85 75
Bud Halbert, Blaine Halbert, Luke Newman 2 1.71 2.95 74
Tommy Thompson, Huey Collins 1 2.41 2.41 73
Ken Johnson, Catherine Johnson 0 0 0 50
Jon Barnes, Roger Beck, Michael Kunis 0 0 0 50
Bill Livingston, Thomas Yarbrough 0 0 0 50
Keith Counce, Greg Walker 0 0 0 50
Larry Cobb, Andy Brunson, Randy Brunson, C Brunson 0 0 50
Jarad Dollar, Joel Ganious 0 0 0 50

It was a great tournament.
Thanks for all your hard work Warrior & DT.

All those weights are really good with no fish over 20 inches.
Thanks for a fun tournament.
You and Matt did a good job.

Thanks guys i had a blast. there was a alot of fish to weigh and it was alot of fun, ready for april, hope to see everyone at the next meeting

Great Tournament Warrior, thanks to all who worked hard to make it happen. Thanks to all who cleaned and fried fish, brought food from home to share with the hungry crowd, hope everyone enjoyed it as much as Huey and I did. We had a great time and can't wait till Econfina rolls around. (At least we had one fish to weigh.)

Nice work Ashley and Matt. We had a great time.

Great job Ashley & Matt. You guys did a great job & I had a great time.

RedTrout wrote:Great job Ashley & Matt. You guys did a great job & I had a great time.

I wonder why???

Warrior wrote: The team of Brian Hurley and Jr Dice was awarded Top Honors with 5 Trout weighing 12.10 lbs and won $370.00.

I think I got it now. Congrats again Brian.

It was indeed a good tournament. The Friday evening fish fry was outstanding. The weigh in was handled very well. Thanks to all the folks who worked to make it a great event. It was embarassing to do as poorly as we did but I was able to fish with my youngest Son, have Atticus back on board again, run with everything working and nothing broke, watch my Son catch his first Red Fish ever and net it for him...so all things considered I'd sure do it all over again. Thanks to all and congratulations to the winners! It's a good thing I don't have to rely on winning!!

The boy did good! Caught on a 1/4 ounce jig with a white sure ketch with a pink curly tail bounced on the bottom. Pre fishing on Friday was a bit nippy!! Water temp ranged from 54 to 59.6 degrees

Well done Ashley and Matt. Thanks to all that played a role in making the Friday night gathering happen. Thanks to Larry and Andy for the food at the weigh in.

Does anyone know where I might find a REAL partner?

My family and I had a great time. We stayed Sat. night and I fished a little on Sunday while Andrew and Melissa went to the beach. When I headed back up the channel on the way in, I finally got stopped by the two FWC officers who checked a lot of our tournament contestants. When I told them I was part of the fishing club who had put on the tournament, they wanted to know who our two tourament directors where, but they didn't offer a reward, so Ashley and Matt - you guys are safe until next time.

See you at the Econfina.

Steve Stinson

Well now that cat is out of the bag none of us will be safe at Keaton anymore.

1st place tournament, including the Friday night party. NFGFC is a great group with outstanding members and tourney organizers.