Kaiya Ziga “spiced things up,” big time, during Morris’ victory Saturday in the ICASSTT event on the Chain O’Lakes with a 6-pound, 3-ounce largemouth bass. Ziga and Trace McKinney won with 16-6.

Ziga caught her anchor fish on a Texas-rigged, green pumpkin Senko.

“I was frog fishing and decided to spice things up a little bit and within three casts I had her on,” she messaged.

Her bass was eighth heaviest all-time in high school fishing on the Illinois Coaches and Students State Tournament Trail.

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