The 1st JP Griffon Memorial Fishing Tournament was held in Port Mansfield only a few months after we tragically lost JP in 1988.  The tournament started with 7 boats and 29 anglers made up of JP's close friends and family.  The first Tournament spawned enough cash to award one $500 scholarship and the JP Griffon Memorial Foundation (a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization) was soon formed to manage the scholarship goals of the Tournament.  Today the Tournament has grown to near 400 annual participants, in 3 Divisions and now awards approximately  $20,000.00 annually in college scholarships to deserving Friendswood area students. (Scholarship Application) The Tournament is proud to be a "Bragging Rights and Trophies" only tournament with a great group of anglers and hometown Friendswood area sponsors, partnered up with the local Port Mansfield businesses, fishing guides and the PM Chamber of Commerce to put on one of the largest private in-shore tournaments on the Texas Gulf Coast.  Welcome and HAVE FUN!

To see a great video tribute and remember (or learn a little) about JP Griffon, click here.  Thanks to Scott Jeffress for his talents on this video production!

     WHERE: Port Mansfield, Texas
     WHEN:   Mixer/Shrimp Boil - Wednesday, May 11, 2016
                    Captain’s Meeting - Thursday, May 12, 2016
                    Tournament Fishing- Friday & Saturday, May 13 & 14, 2016

                    Banquet, Awards and Fundraiser Saturday Night, May 14, 2016
                    Leave - Sunday, May 15, 2016

Every angler will receive a tournament cap and T-shirt, a pre-tournament meal prepared by Big John’s BB-Q, Doug Granger and Nick’s Kitchen & Beach Bar and the Saturday Night  post-tournament Banquet and Awards Ceremony.

This year we have made a change to the Open Division Rules rules regarding  the use of croaker, so please check the Official Tournament Rules and the Guided Division Supplemental Rules.  Conservation is a goal of our Tournament. Our daily tournament stringers harvest LESS THAN ONE Texas angler's daily legal limit of gamefish, for a team composed of FOUR fishermen!  Anglers are encouraged to release all fish not required for their daily competition stringer.

*The tournament  stringers cannot contain more than two speckled trout 25 inches long or longer per day. *

Fisherman may enter the Guided Division (artificial lures only *see rules for exception), the regular Open Division (no guides and any legal TPWD bait) or the Hardware Division (no guides with artificial lures only).