Chad Griffin
Chad Griffin was born and raised in Alaska and moved to Texas after graduating from high school. When Chad moved to Texas he did not come with any bass fishing experience but did come to with plenty of fishing experience. Chad started fishing when he was three years old in the streams of Alaska. His grandparents traveled to Alaska numerous times spending the whole summer at Deep Creek on the Kenai Peninsula. Chad was there most of the time catching king salmon, silver salmon, pink salmon, steelhead and dolly varden which are similar to trout.
So when Chad moved to Texas in 1995 he was eager to match his skills against the largemouth bass. Although successful right away at catching bass he found that it was a big challenge to catch bass consistently and that he lacked the knowledge that others had about bass feeding habits.
So he just worked hard at learning and in 1999 began to enter bass tournaments in Granbury, Squaw Creek and other lakes in the area. In 2000 he fished in the Angler’s Choice Pro Am Division as a non-boater and won the co-angler Angler of the Year award. The next year he moved up to the boater’s side and fished in the Cowboy Division of the BFL and some TTT tournaments. He has been fishing those every since plus the Stren (Everstart) Series and recently added the Bassmaster Opens. All total he has fished in 90 tournaments
Modifying lures and designing various styles and colors of jigs to match what the bass like to feed on comes natural to Chad. His granddad, M. J. “Mutt” Plummer, was a renowned bass fisherman in West Texas from the early 1940’s into the early 1980’s. Mutt made hundreds of jigs and lures, many of them hand carved and many of them very innovative. When Chad could not find exactly what he was looking for he began to make his own jigs creating new color combinations and started selling them in 2005 as other fishermen saw them and asked him to make some for them.