This past weekend I was fortunate enough to compete in the HUK BASS NATION Kayak Series tournament on pools 7,8 & 9 of the Upper Mississippi River. 123 of the best kayak anglers from accross the country participated. Grant Ellis and I traveled together and had a great time. The river and the surrounding area and communities are beautiful. The river itself was humbling, I heard of lots of fish being caught. Fishing was tough for us and we struggled to catch fish during practice and ultimately during the tournament as well. I threw the kitchen sink at the back channels and backwaters targeting largemouth but had limited success with only one keeper on the board for most of the day. Just as time was expiring I found a specific type of current that held some fish and put up three more keepers with just minutes to spare to salvage something out of the day. All my keepers came by way of an Evergreen/Z-Man Jackhammer with a Missle Bait craw trailer. I was using my Lew's Perfect Crankbait rod with a Lew's BB1 reel. I finished in 77th place and Grant bested me by one inch (I had to buy supper on the trip home) and finished in 74th. On a side note we did catch a ton of Northern Pike and Grant caught more pike than he had in his life combined on tourney day, including his biggest to date. #bassmaster #bassnation #bassnationkayakseries #lewsfishing #egofishinggear #ketchboard #nativewatercraft #bassfishing #kayakfishing #kayakbassfishing #fishingaddict #fishingaddiction #kayaktournament #thankful #livinthedream #neverquit #hukfishing #zmanjackhammer (at Lansing, Iowa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CECe2k3gNdL/?igshid=h7x2a0iuixzf
