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CKA Photo Gallery: Randleman Lake

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CKA Photo Gallery: Randleman Lake

Hello everyone, We are catching up on posts, and apologize for the delay. Our site was transferred to a new server last week and we had some changes to make. We updated the 2017 gallery with photos from Randleman, including action shots that were not posted to Facebook. Thank you everyone for making it a great tournament and congratulations to the winners on both the CKA and KBF events! Thank you also to Get:Outdoors for hosting the Captains Meeting, and all of our sponsors. Wilderness Systems deserves a special thanks…

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TourneyX Usage and Photo Review Update

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TourneyX Usage and Photo Review Update

We are now halfway through our first season utilizing Tourney X as our method of managing CPR tournament submissions. It honestly has been a great tool not only for tournament directors but for the anglers as well.  As is the case with any new tool there are both tech glitches and usage issues that arise and we thought at this point of the season it would be a good time to post some information and advice about a common usage problem. The two primary topics of this post are duplicate…

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CKA Tournament 5: Lake Badin

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CKA Tournament 5: Lake Badin

CKA Event #5 Lake Badin, NC June 3, 2017   CKA welcomes Anglers to Event #5 on Badin Lake (last visited by us in 2014). It’s the Southernmost Lake on the Yadkin/Pee-Dee river chain and one of the oldest impounded lakes in North Carolina. Badin contains 5,350 surface acres of water, 115 miles of shoreline, and an average depth of 90 feet with a maximum depth of 190 feet. This diverse fishery hosts all three major Black Bass species (Largemouth bass, Smallmouth bass, and Spotted Bass) as well as Striped Bass…

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CKA Tournament #4: Lake Hickory

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CKA Tournament #4: Lake Hickory

CKA Event #4 Lake Hickory, NC May 13, 2017 CKA welcomes anglers to Event #4 on the naturally beautiful Lake Hickory.  CKA moves operations to the western side of North Carolina for its first ever visit to this 4200 acre gem on the upper end of the Catawba River chain. Crystal clear waters, steady water levels and sandy bottom will have anglers fishing docks, points and natural shorelines. This will be a single launch event from the Wittenburg Landing Access area. Anglers will also check back into this same area…

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CKA at the 2017 KBF National Championship

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CKA at the 2017 KBF National Championship

Competitive fishing against the nation’s top kayak anglers requires considerable determination and skill. Once again our Carolina Kayak Anglers rose to that challenge and fished extremely well at the KBF National Championship and related events on Kentucky Lake this past weekend. The CKA staff is grateful and thankful that CKA anglers devoted time and resources to making the journey to Kentucky Lake for the KBF Championship in 2016 and 2017. Below is a side by side example of how our anglers performed this year when compared to last. We have…

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