Category: Tournaments

Jordan Lake Tournament

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Jordan Lake Tournament

CKA Tournament 2 B Everett Jordan Lake, NC April 13th, 2019  Overview Welcome anglers to Event #2 of the 2019 CKA tournament season. The tournament will be held on Jordan Lake, a lake that has been fishing well in recent years, giving up several bass in the 10-12 class. The lake is very healthy of late and lightly pressured due to recent ramp closures, and, well we all saw what the MLF pros did when they fished it. In short, this event is setting up perfectly! We will use a…

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CKA at the 2019 Kayak Bass Fishing National Championship

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CKA at the 2019 Kayak Bass Fishing National Championship

North Carolina anglers have represented CKA in all 4 KBF National Championship tournaments. Fields have expanded, lakes have changed and competition has intensified as our sport has grown. CKA anglers have represented us all while competing, earning us national recognition as one of the nation’s top kayak bass fishing trails. Why is that? Because CKA events are hard to win, and being battle tested at home translates to fishing well on the national stage. This year, 6 CKA competitors made the cut for day 3 of the National Championship. They…

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Tournament Summary: The 2019 Burlington Bash

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Tournament Summary: The 2019 Burlington Bash

Former CKA director Larry Anderson left us a real gift last year when he came up with the idea for this event: 4 lakes, 5 launches, all within a few miles of each other and 3 of them new to the series. If you look at a map, all four lakes release water into the Haw River within only a few miles of one another. Geographically, it was the ideal watershed for a CKA event. The 1st CKA event of the season surpassed last year’s numbers at Hyco, and while…

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CKA Tournament 1: The Burlington Battle

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CKA Tournament 1: The Burlington Battle

CKA Tournament 1 March 9th, 2019 Lake Mackintosh. Stony Creek, Graham-Mebane and Cammack 4 Lakes, 5 Launches….. Central location, on both new and familiar lakes…. The 2019 CKA season begins….. It’s time to fish! Welcome Anglers to 2019 season. If you are new to the Trail, welcome aboard and good luck in the Rookie of the Year race. If you are a CKA regular then you know the battle for Angler of the Year will be long and difficult against some of the best competition in the entire country. We…

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KBF Southeast Region Trail at Santee Cooper

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KBF Southeast Region Trail at Santee Cooper

Every season, dozens of CKA anglers divide their efforts between our  series and the national KBF trail and major tournaments. The results have often been spectacular –Rick Rowland simultaneously won the KBF Open on Kentucky Lake and also placed 3rd at the 2017 KBF National Championship, Jamie Denison won the 2018 AOY and the 2019 events at Toledo Bend, Cory Dreyer won the “Ten” at Bienville and extended his legendary streak of placing in the money at consecutive Open and National Championship events. In these examples and others, CKA anglers…

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