2026 KFNW Tour Event 4

July 25 | Banks Lake, WA

2026 Tour Event 4 - Banks lake - Podium Winners — Brandon Henning (3rd Place), Jesse Brummett (1st Place), Scott Samson (Big Bass) , Will Raymond (2nd Place)

Brummett’s Early Limit Outlasts Raymond’s Furious Finish at Banks Lake

Presented by Diamond Parking and Self Storage, the fourth stop of the Snake River Manufacturing Kayak Fishing Northwest Tour brought 44 anglers to Banks Lake in Grand Coulee, Washington on Saturday, July 25 — though the day almost looked very different before it started. With a stiff wind forecast bearing down on the lake by late morning, tournament officials moved the entire event up for angler safety: blast-off came in the dark at 4:30 a.m., lines in at 5:00 a.m., and lines out at noon — a 7-hour day instead of the usual 8. The call was well-founded; forecasters had 14 mph sustained wind and 18 mph gusts building by 11 a.m., blowing straight down Banks Lake’s narrow gorge, a topography that tends to magnify wind rather than block it.

The early start didn’t slow anything down. The bite was on early and stayed on — 30 of the 44 anglers in the field boated full five-fish limits, and 41 of 44 brought at least one fish to the scale.

Jesse Brummett (Vancouver, WA) wasted no time building his case. He had all five fish in the boat by 7:53 a.m. for 89.25″, and from there simply waited out the clock as the number to beat.

He needed every bit of that cushion. Will Raymond (Bellingham, WA) sat quietly in the mix through the morning before detonating late — a 17.25″ smallmouth at 10:59 a.m. followed by an 18.00″ upgrade at 11:23 a.m. rocketed him to 88.50″, closing the gap to just three-quarters of an inch at the wire. Brandon Henning (Spanaway, WA) made a similar move in the final hours, adding an 18.00″ largemouth at 10:13 a.m. and an 18.25″ smallmouth at 11:06 a.m. to lock up third at 87.25″.

Fourth and fifth came down to a photo finish. Corey Carlile (Spokane, WA) and Jordan Dugger (Ephrata, WA) both finished at exactly 87.00″ — Carlile’s 19.00″ largemouth kicker, his biggest fish of the day, was the difference-maker over Dugger’s 18.25″ top fish.

Samson’s Sunrise Giant

Scott Samson (Boise, ID) put the largest fish of the tournament in the boat before 6 a.m. — a 19.25″ smallmouth at 5:51 a.m. — good for the Three Rivers Tackle Big Bass title. He built the rest of a strong bag around it, finishing 7th overall at 83.25″.

Storylines Worth Noting

Banks Lake fished heavily smallmouth, just like the tour’s last stop at Lake Cascade. Citha Mao (Kirkland, WA) claimed First Fish of the Day at 5:02 a.m., edging Jordan Dugger and Trey Potts by a single minute. Four Duggers competed Saturday — Jordan, Joshua, Lacey, and Jeff — with Joshua also cracking the top 15.

With 30 anglers completing full five-fish limits — well over half the field — Banks Lake proved to be one of the more generous stops on the 2026 tour, wind or no wind.

The KFNW Tour rolls on.

🏆 Podium Finishes

🥇 Jesse Brummett (Vancouver, WA) – 89.25″ – $2,296
🥈 Will Raymond (Bellingham, WA) – 88.50″ – $994
🥉 Brandon Henning (Spanaway, WA) – 87.25″ – $777

Big Bass Buy-In

Scott Samson (Boise, ID) – 19.25″ Smallmouth Bass – $686 ($486 cash plus $200 from Three Rivers Tackle)

Special Awards

First Angler Out of the Money: Jordan Dugger (Ephrata, WA) received a $100 gift card from Discount Tackle
Lil Limit of the Day: Joshua Hedean (Spokane Valley, WA) received the prestigious award with his 67.50″ limit

Tourney Trivia

Totals: 244 fish were submitted and accepted by 41 of 44 anglers — 5.5 fish per angler
Where From: Washington: 30 | Oregon: 12 | Idaho: 3
Five-Fish Limits: 30 anglers completed a full five-fish bag
Species: 203 Smallmouth Bass, 41 Largemouth Bass
First Fish of the Day: Citha Mao (Kirkland, WA) at 5:02 AM, edging out Jordan Dugger and Trey Potts by one minute
Last Fish of the Day: Matthew Pollock (Spokane Valley, WA) at 11:26 AM
Event Big Fish: Scott Samson (Boise, ID) — 19.25″ Smallmouth Bass

Full Final Standings

We paid out $4,323 to the top 4 anglers with a 90% payout rate, plus $486 for Big Bass.

Rank	Angler	City, State	Earnings	Fish 1	Fish 2	Fish 3	Fish 4	Fish 5	TOTAL
1	Brummett, Jesse	Vancouver, WA	$2,296.00	18.75	18.75	18.00	17.00	16.75	89.25
2	Raymond, Will	Bellingham, WA	$994.00	19.00	18.00	17.75	17.25	16.50	88.50
3	Henning, Brandon	Spanaway, WA	$777.00	18.25	18.00	17.00	17.00	17.00	87.25
4	Carlile, Corey	Spokane, WA	$256.00	19.00	18.25	17.25	16.25	16.25	87.00
5	Dugger, Jordan	Ephrata, WA		18.25	18.00	17.50	17.00	16.25	87.00
6	Pollock, Matthew	Spokane Valley, WA		18.50	18.25	17.50	15.50	15.00	84.75
7	Samson, Scott	Boise, ID	$486.00	19.25	17.00	15.75	15.75	15.50	83.25
8	Williams, Chris	Olympia, WA		18.50	17.00	16.00	15.50	15.50	82.50
9	French, Eddie	Camas, WA		17.50	16.50	15.50	15.50	15.25	80.25
10	Walker, Dan	Seattle, WA		19.00	19.00	16.00	13.25	12.75	80.00
11	Hahn, Zach	La Center, WA		18.00	17.25	15.00	15.00	14.50	79.75
12	Leonard, John	Graham, WA		17.75	17.00	16.50	15.25	13.25	79.75
13	Potts, Trey	Dayton, WA		16.25	16.00	16.00	15.75	15.25	79.25
14	Dugger, Joshua	Bonney Lake, WA		17.25	16.00	15.25	15.25	14.25	78.00
15	Harbison, Kayden	Yakima, WA		18.25	17.50	15.75	13.00	12.75	77.25
16	Long, Hong	Bellevue, WA		17.25	15.75	15.00	14.75	14.00	76.75
17	Larson, Andrew	Donald, OR		17.00	17.00	14.50	14.25	13.50	76.25
18	Motherwell, Robert	Seattle, WA		17.00	15.00	15.00	14.75	14.25	76.00
19	Cary, Jim	Spokane, WA		16.50	16.25	14.50	14.50	14.25	76.00
20	Zarate, Junior	Wenatchee, WA		16.00	15.75	15.50	15.25	13.25	75.75
21	Rudisill, Damon	Tacoma, WA		16.50	16.25	15.25	13.75	13.50	75.25
22	Prasad, Shailesh	Eugene, OR		16.25	16.00	15.50	14.00	12.75	74.50
23	Parker, Tyson	Baker City, OR		16.50	15.75	15.25	13.50	13.00	74.00
24	Kelly, Patrick	Enumclaw, WA		17.75	14.00	14.00	14.00	13.50	73.25
25	Mao, Citha	Kirkland, WA		17.00	14.50	14.50	13.75	13.50	73.25
26	Osojnicki, Tj	Boise, ID		15.00	14.75	14.50	14.00	14.00	72.25
27	Rodriguez, Marco	Milton Freewater, OR		15.50	15.00	14.25	13.25	12.75	70.75
28	Parker, Grant	Baker City, OR		16.50	14.00	13.50	13.00	12.50	69.50
29	Parker, Larry	Baker City, OR		15.00	13.75	13.50	13.25	13.00	68.50
30	Hedean, Joshua	Spokane Valley, WA		14.75	14.00	13.25	13.25	12.25	67.50
31	Tarshis, David	Happy Valley, OR		17.25	16.00	15.75	14.50	0.00	63.50
32	Prom, Thorn	Seattle, WA		18.50	14.25	13.00	12.25	0.00	58.00
33	Vargas, Carlos	Chelan, WA		15.00	14.00	13.25	12.75	0.00	55.00
34	Burdick, Matthew	Albany, OR		13.25	13.00	12.25	12.00	0.00	50.50
35	Oles, Brian	Kennewick, WA		16.25	14.50	14.00	0.00	0.00	44.75
36	Howell, Dennis	East Wenatchee, WA		16.25	15.50	12.50	0.00	0.00	44.25
37	Simmons, Jeron	Baker City, OR		15.00	13.75	13.25	0.00	0.00	42.00
38	Forte, Marvin	Portland, OR		13.75	13.50	12.50	0.00	0.00	39.75
39	Dugger, Lacey	Wenatchee, WA		14.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	14.50
40	Mendoza, Fernando	Othello, WA		14.25	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	14.25
41	Mitchell, Michael	Portland, OR		12.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	12.00
42	Dugger, Jeff	Wenatchee, WA		0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
43	Mumford, Michael	Nampa, ID		0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
44	Torres, Carlos	Newport, WA		0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

Four anglers were DQed, did not attend, did not complete the event, or did not attend the awards and were removed from the standings.

Angler Videos

**Kayak Bass Classic Qualifiers (L-R):** Corey Carlile, Jordan Dugger, Jesse Brummett, Brandon Henning, Will Raymond

KFNW Kayak Bass Classic Qualified Anglers

Jesse Brummett (Vancouver, WA)
Will Raymond (Bellingham, WA)
Brandon Henning (Spanaway, WA)
Corey Carlile (Spokane, WA)
Jordan Dugger (Ephrata, WA)

**West Coast Championship Qualifiers (L-R):** Zach Hahn, Corey Carlile, Eddie French, John Leonard, Jesse Brummett, Jordan Dugger, Will Raymond, Brandon Henning, Scott Samson, Dan Walker, Matthew Pollock

West Coast Championship Qualified Anglers

Jesse Brummett (Vancouver, WA)
Will Raymond (Bellingham, WA)
Brandon Henning (Spanaway, WA)
Corey Carlile (Spokane, WA)
Jordan Dugger (Ephrata, WA)
Matthew Pollock (Spokane Valley, WA)
Scott Samson (Boise, ID)
Chris Williams (Olympia, WA)
Eddie French (Camas, WA)
Dan Walker (Seattle, WA)
Zach Hahn (La Center, WA)
John Leonard (Graham, WA)

View on TourneyX.com

Banks Lake, WA — Banks Lake adjacent to Steamboat Rock

Banks Lake is a reservoir carved into the floor of the Grand Coulee — a massive, canyon-like trench gouged through the basalt plains of eastern Washington by the catastrophic Ice Age floods known as the Missoula Floods. The coulee’s steep, cliff-lined walls and distinctive boxy cross-section are a direct product of that ancient geology, and they give Banks Lake one of the most dramatic settings of any tournament fishery in the Pacific Northwest. The reservoir was filled as part of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project following the construction of Grand Coulee Dam, with water pumped up from Lake Roosevelt and held between the North Dam near Electric City and Dry Falls Dam near Coulee City. It sits at an elevation of 1,571 feet on the Columbia Plateau.

Stretching nearly 27 miles from Coulee City in the south to Electric City in the north, Banks Lake is defined by its structure. The shoreline is dominated by basalt cliffs, talus slopes, and rocky points — prime real estate for smallmouth bass, which are the signature species here. Smallmouth are found throughout the lake and have a well-earned reputation for both numbers and size, with fish in the 4-pound range common and bruisers pushing 6 pounds showing up regularly enough to draw tournament circuits year after year. Largemouth bass are also present, concentrated in the northern end of the lake where grassy shorelines, marshy inlets, and bays like Osborne Bay and Devils Punch Bowl provide softer-water cover. Submerged roadbeds and old pre-reservoir features add to the structure mix, holding fish along their broken shale edges. Beyond bass, the lake supports walleye, yellow perch, black crappie, rainbow trout, kokanee, lake whitefish, channel catfish, bluegill, burbot, and kokanee salmon.

The average depth is 46 feet, with a maximum depth of 177 feet. Boundaries for this event feature approximately 26,888 acres of water and 91 miles of shoreline.

Qualifier for the KFNW Kayak Bass Classic and the West Coast Championship

Top 10% of the field qualifies for the KFNW Kayak Bass Classic on October 3-4 on the Columbia River (Lake Bonneville).
Top 25% of the field qualifies for the West Coast Championship on August 21-22.

Last time we visited Banks: September 14, 2024

We had 27 anglers and 158 fish were submitted. We had a tie for first place. Trey Potts (Dayton, WA) won the tiebreaker with 84.75 inches, and a 18 inch smallmouth kicker. Patrick Kelly (Enumclaw, WA) took second place with 84.75 inches and an 17.75 inch smallmouth kicker. That’s right, .25 inches on their biggest fish made the difference for the day. Zach Hahn (La Center, WA) took third with 83.75 inches and an 19.25 inch largemouth kicker, which was also the Big Bass of the day.

Tournament Schedule

All times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)

Off-Limits Period

Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM through Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM

Registration Deadline

Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Late registration is available on a limited basis, and is first-come, first-served. There is a $10 service fee for late registration.

Official Practice Period

Saturday, July 18, 2026 through Friday, July 24, 2026
5:30 AM – Practice Launch / Lines In
1:30 PM – Practice Lines Out / Off the Water

Friday – July 24, 2026

6:00 PM – Pre-Event Briefing | North Dam Park
10:00 PM – Identifier Code Released

Saturday – July 25, 2026

4:00 AM to 4:30 AM – Virtual Check-In and Selfie
- Anglers are required to check-in on TourneyX (cell service permitting) and take a selfie at their launch, within this window. Failure to display a selfie when requested by tournament officials at the Awards may result in disqualification.
4:25 AM – Launch (Designated Launches) | Human-Powered
4:30 AM – Launch (Designated Launches) | Electric Motors
5:00 AM – Lines In
5:23 AM – Sunrise
12:00:00 PM – Lines Out
12:30 PM – Off the Water
1:00 PM – Upload Deadline
- Cell Service on Water: Poor
- Cellular service may not be available on the water. It is the competitor’s responsibility to find service and upload their fish before the Upload Deadline.
2:00 PM – Awards Ceremony and Gear Drawing | North Dam Park
Competitors MUST be present at Awards ceremony location by this time. Competitors who are not present by this time will be disqualified.

Washington Regulations and Links

A Washington fishing license is required (temporary or annual) – Visit WDFW
Competitors in any in-person Tournament (Tour Event or Open) that includes waters in Washington MUST complete Aquatic Invasive Species Decontamination Statement at Pre-Event Briefing. If the Competitor has operated their watercraft outside of Idaho, Oregon, or Washington within 30 days before the Tournament, they must decontaminate their watercraft and complete an Aquatic Invasive Species Decontamination Report. Failure to complete or provide these forms at Pre-Event Briefing, or failure to comply with the regulations will result in disqualification from the Tournament. Washington residents are encouraged to register their motorized watercraft, especially if they plan to fish Federal Inland Waterways in Washington (including, but not limited to the Columbia River, Lower Snake River, tidal tributaries, Lake Washington, Lake Union, and Lake Chehalis) or waterways outside Washington – Visit WDFW
Our permit from WDFW requires all competitors display a yellow EVENT flag during all Washington events. The flag should only be displayed on tournament day, not during pre-fishing. You can purchase a flag here on the KFNW website: EVENT Flag.

Pre-Event Briefing

Pre-Event Briefing and Awards Location

North Dam Park
Near the Centennial Time Capsule
Grand Coulee, WA 99133
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fVs6K8eYeSfY7E5z5

Pre-Event Briefing Details

Before the Pre-Event Briefing, a video will be published to go over specific details for this Tour Event. Certain rules may be discussed, but we will not review all the rules. It is the competitor’s responsibility to read and know all rules as published in the Rules Standard.
A signed hard copy of the Liability Release is required by all competitors for each Event. You can download the Liability Release in advance and bring the completed form (download below).
Electric Motor Inspection form is required for any competitor with a DIY or non-standard motor setup. If you have a non-standard setup, contact the Tournament Director to see if an inspection is necessary.
Certified bump board is required and board check will be performed. Boards should be clean and dry.
Competitors will have the opportunity to ask any questions before the meeting is adjourned.
Attendance at the Pre-Event Briefing is mandatory. If you can’t attend the meeting due to work or an unavoidable obligation, another angler can bring your Liability Release and bump board on your behalf. This solely the responsibility of the two competitors and no exceptions will be given.

Location Details

Eligible Water Boundaries

Main body of water
Connected creeks, rivers, sloughs and tributaries accessible via kayak from the main body of water are in-bounds (conditions permitting for safety and accessibility)
Disconnected sloughs and ponds are out-of-bounds
Portaging is not permitted
Only public waters are allowed

Designated Launch Locations

Ankeny North Public Access (semi-improved)
Ankeny South Public Access (semi-improved)
Barker Flats (Barker Canyon) Boat Launch (improved) – LEAVE EARLY
CLOSED/INACCESSIBLE – Cayman Place 1 (unimproved)
Coulee City Boat Launch (improved)
Coulee Playland Boat Ramp (improved)
CLOSED – ~~Fordair Rd NE – Banks Lake Public Access (unimproved)~~
Kruk Road Public Access (unimproved)
CLOSED – ~~Million Dollar North Public Access (improved)~~
CLOSED – Million Dollar South Public Access (improved)
Northrup Boat Ramp (improved)
Osborn Bay Campground Boat Ramp (semi-improved)
Steamboat Rock Boat Launch (improved)
No other launches are allowed

Safety Notes

An overhead 360° light is required in low light conditions. A high-visibility flag, vest-type PFD, and sound signaling device (whistle) are required on the water at all times. Failure to utilize any of this safety equipment may result in disqualification.