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 Eligible Core Bodies of Water **​

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​​              RIVERS

- Mississippi River Pool 9 (*and as far upstream as you can get from the pool 9 launch boundary)

- Mississippi River Pool 10

- Mississippi River Pool 11 (*no locking to 12). 

- Any connecting tributary creeks or rivers in between the upstream & downstream launch boundaries, notably

• Wisconsin River (*launch boundary at Port Andrew)

•  Yellow River 

•  Turkey River

• Volga River

• Kickapoo River 

• Grant River

• Little Maquoketa River

• ​Platte River (*only accessible from Pool 11 launches)

** plus all free flowing canals, creeks & rivers feeding into waters listed above. When scouting (online or in person) track all tributaries upstream from one of the above listed core bodies of water listed above until you hit any of the following man-made obstacles - solid or earthen dam, or road, culvert or pipe etc that you cannot kayak under/over. Any of those points are hard KAS boundaries. However, a "spillway" or "lowhead" type dam is legal  in KAS and anglers can fish & access above & below them. They are just "running the river" and are different from "solid or earthen" dams that have water flowing under the dam via a pipe or drain (think neighborhood or farm ponds, private lakes etc) or through larger outflows or turbines on larger public lake dams. If the water above a non-spillway type dam is legal in KAS it will be marked and listed as one of your "core" bodies of water on this page/map. If not, then it is not legal for the event. 

Anglers must access "legally" & "publicly." If you find any water, or access, you feel may not be covered by the interactive map, preview video, or rules standards please contact the KAS Tournament Director prior to the event for clarification or risk being DQ'd if it is later deemed to be not eligible. For help determining "public" access reference this GIS Flowchart