Hackney with No. 4

Tournament winners always talk about making good decisions, and Greg Hackney just made a key one, if he goes on to win this derby.  Hackney just moved about 4 miles back to the south, past where he started this morning.  And less than five minutes after arriving, he swung his fourth keeper in the boat, another litter mate of his previous three 4-pounders, maybe bigger.

 

Hackney's boat is rising and falling with the waves to the point his trolling motor is almost coming out of the water, and when he sinks back down in the wave trough, the boat deck disappears.

 

As our boat driver and bass tournament veteran Pete Golub said, "When you see sailboats moving faster than (Mike) Iaconelli, you know it's blowing."