 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. The City of Pikeville and the Bluegrass Kayak Englers have partnered together to present the Bass Kickers Tournament Series. The tournament will run from April 1st through April 29th and features a $1,500 minimum payout with 100% payback to the top three finishers. This is a tournament that's operated by the City of Pikeville. It's something they started last year with COVID and you know kind of keeping everybody cooped up indoors. They thought that this will be a really good idea, a good opportunity to get people outside since people were looking for any reason to get outside. It's something that didn't require a lot of face-to-face contact. It's something people get outside and enjoy the waters of Pike County and so that's kind of what started it and we had a really good reaction to it last year and so we're back this year to help the City of Pikeville do it again. Registration for the tournament is $50 and is now open on the Turney X app. Registration will close April 15th. So it's a catch photo release tournament. You're allowed to fish from the bank. You can fish from a boat. You can fish from a kayak so it's really open to a lot of different people but it'll be your five longest bass scored on either a hog trough or a catch measuring board and so you'll put your fish on that board with the mouth closed. We'll have an identifier that'll get released to all the participants and there'll be an app and you actually submit your photo on that app. It's called Turney X and the five longest fish win. The tournament is open to the public and all participants must fish from public waterways in Pike County. Catch photo release you know it's really gained in popularity over the recent years especially with kayak fishing becoming so popular and one of the great things about it is a lot of the negative aspects of bass boat tournaments is that the fish are put in live wells and carried around all day and you transport them you know sometimes 10-20 miles from where they were caught and you know with that you inevitably have some mortality you know it's just inevitable that some of those fish just don't survive especially in the hotter months and catch photo release allows us to catch a fish measure it and then you release it back right where you caught it. It's definitely a conservationist-minded way to run tournaments and we think it works out really well. It gives more people opportunities you know some some people don't have live wells like people bank fishing or fishing from kayaks and so it just really opens it up to more more people to participate. For more information go to Bluegrass Kayak Anglers on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.