Category: KBF

Carolina Kayak Anglers Welcomes Native Watercraft Back for the 2020 Season

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Carolina Kayak Anglers Welcomes Native Watercraft Back for the 2020 Season

North Carolina’s very own Native Watercraft has been a perennial sponsor of CKA events, donating a new kayak to our AOY race nearly every season and providing assorted gear to our anglers. Using CKA membership discounts, anglers also have the opportunity to save on Native boats and gear at Get:Outdoors in Greensboro N.C.  And since Native has teamed with Kayak Bass Fishing to sponsor the new Mid-Atlantic KBF Trail events for 2020, anglers have even more opportunities to win Native gear through KBF Trail events! We are proud to welcome…

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Kayak Bass Fishing Trail and KBF Membership

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Kayak Bass Fishing Trail and KBF Membership

CKA anglers won roughly $30,000 fishing in KBF events in 2019. And the winners were not only the usual suspects. About one dozen anglers won cash and prizes in on-line events and larger regional tournaments. An example – Adam Petrone qualified for both the 2020 National Championship and the Challenge Series Cup by winning the June State Challenge. He drove to Wisconsin in October and won his first big check. He’ll be fishing for another check  at Guntersville in April. His KBF membership and state challenge sign-up fees have paid…

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KBF 2020 National Championship Qualifiers

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KBF 2020 National Championship Qualifiers

KBF allowed partner clubs to qualify 10% of the field at our 2019 trail events. These are known as “at large” qualifying events, and they constitute a more grassroots approach to providing anglers a chance to fish the KBF National Championship, the world’s largest and most lucrative kayak fishing tournament. KBF streamlined the process this year by shifting more of the paperwork to a KBF statistician and to the partner clubs. Over the course of the season CKA tournament directors worked with KBF and anglers to make sure qualifying spots…

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Tournament Recap: Battle at the Border

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Tournament Recap: Battle at the Border

Tournament Recap: Battle at the Border Kerr Lake/Buggs Island CKA and VKBC collaborated with support from Kayak Bass Fishing to organize the 2019 Battle at the Border, the first of what both clubs hope will be an annual event. We held the tournament on beautiful Kerr Lake, a massive body of water that straddles the VA-NC border. Approximately 70 anglers from three states signed up for the concurrent tournaments. Three states – while the majority of anglers were from VA or  NC, a handful from South Carolina attended to compete,…

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KBF Prizes for the 2019 Battle at the Border

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KBF Prizes for the 2019 Battle at the Border

Kayak Bass Fishing has generously donated additional cash prizes and 2020 National Championship Qualifying spots for the CKA-VKBC Battle at the Border at Kerr Lake, this coming Saturday, July 13th. This additional tournament support is to promote the sport among KBF members and non-members alike. There are two award categories. $1,000 cash At the end of the event, the tournament directors will merge the two event leaderboards, and the top 3 limits overall will each be awarded a cash prize. Anglers do not have to be KBF members to receive…

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