Rush Wins Fort Peck Angler Of The Year
Keller Named Top Gun
Whit Rush from Wolf Point captured the 2021 Fort Peck Championship Series Angler of the Year award by winning the Rock Creek Tournament with Kris Keller and placing third in the Montana Governor’s Cup with his wife, Carly.
Kris Keller, also from Wolf Point, finished in second place with the first-place finish at Rock Creek with Whit Rush and a second place finish at Hell Creek with Cody Strohm from Richey.
Stuart Law from Glasgow came in third after a sixthplace finish at the Gov Cup with Tyson Kleppelid from Circle and winning the Hell Creek Tournament with Scott Swanson, also of Glasgow, with an extremely impressive weight of 80.92 pounds.
All of these awards are based on the best finish in two out of three events.
A brand new prize was awarded this year based on the top finisher for all three events. This year’s Top Gun award was won by Kris Keller with his first place at Rock Creek, 21st place at Governor’s Cup and second place at Hell Creek.
The Team of Year was won by Jason Eggebrecht of Fort Peck and Ross Lien of Glendive. The two anglers won the Governor’s Cup for the second year in a row with an also impressive 74.47 pounds and finished in fifth place at Hell Creek.
Zeik Gordan from Belgrade and Owen Wilcox of Laurel grabbed the second place award and also won the Adult/Child competition. Coming in third was Mike Wenz and Marley Ziegler, both from Gillette, Wyo. The second place team for Adult/ Child was Jaxsen and Jesse Reuter from Sidney.
The Mixed/Couple award was won by Joyce and Willy Hammar from Malta who fished all three events together and their scores from Gov Cup and Hell Creek propelled them to their win. Second place was won by Cierra and Colby Loudon from Circle who fished Rock Creek and Hell Creek. Third place was nailed down by Dayle and Eric Stahl from Laurel who also fished all three events.
The largest walleye caught and released was pulled in by Eggebrecht and Lien on Day 2 of the Governor’s Cup and was 32.25” and 13.69 pounds.
Awards were presented at the Walleyes Unlimited state banquet Feb. 19 in Lewistown.
