In dominating fashion Cody Huddleston and Nick Pahoundis take home a big win on the Kanawha River in the third stop of the BASS Nation of West Virginia Buddy Trail. Notching their first big win of the year with an enhanced payout that Prim Law Firm, PLLC provided. The duo won $3,610 for their efforts. Prim Law Firm provided an extra $4,000 to be added to the entire payout. A great incentive for any tournament in West Virginia.

Huddleston and Pahoundis who have always been a favorite to win on any river in the state proved why they are favorites. With the tune of a great bag of smallmouth and one largemouth to add. They weighed in limit of 10.32 pounds. Almost 2 pounds over 2nd place.

“On paper it looks pretty good,” said Huddleston. “But it sounds a lot better than it was. It was a grind.”

Just a little less than a year ago, Huddleston and Pahoundis won the fourth stop of the 2022 BASS Nation of West Virginia Buddy Trail at Ravenswood on the Ohio River in dominating fashion as well with an 11.00 pound bag and won by over 2 pounds.

“I didn’t catch two keepers in the same spot. It was just one here and one there. We didn’t have a pattern but just kept our head down, stayed out on the main river and just ran the bank,” said Huddleston.

Coming into the tournament Huddleston and Pahoundis held a three point lead in the Team of the Year for the BASS Nation of West Virginia Buddy Trail race. But with their win they created now an 11 point gap over second place with a total of 293 points and 3rd place average in the last three tournaments.

Finishing in second place was the duo of Bruce Johnson and Patrick Johnson who weighed in 8.49 pounds.

Rounding out the top three in third place was Jacob D’Angelo and JW Jones who had 7.70 pounds and lunker of the tournament with a 2.79 smallmouth.

Tony Keller and John Cooper won Freedom Outdoors “Freedom Bucks”

62 teams competed.

125 fish were weighed and 125 fish were released alive for a 100% live release rate.