Visit the New CKA Hall of Champions

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The CKA website has received an average of 30,000 views per year over the past 4 seasons. Through it, our anglers, sponsors and prospective competitors learn about the club, events and support our sponsors.

Our website is also a history of the club, including its KBF Partner work, its charity work and the history of the AOY/ROY races.

We have added a new feature: the CKA Hall of Champions. It is a near-complete list of every 1st place event winner. It includes notable statistics from the club’s history, too, and some rare historic photos. Is your name on it?

CKA Hall of Champions

CKA & KBF Recap 2020

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Beginning with Marcus Smith’s win at Santee-Cooper and ending with Cory Dreyer’s top 10 finish at Guntersville Lake in the KBF National Championship, the 2020 season produced many highlights for CKA anglers in KBF competition, including an RAOY title and yet another State Challenge Series points champion.

For a complete overview of the CKA/KBF 2020 year in review, click here

For an updated photo gallery, click here: https://www.carolinakayakanglers.com/?page_id=1125

The Blair Fish Project

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A Charity Event for Drew Blair

On October 25th, 2020, Drew Blair woke up and headed outside to his truck. As usual, he was planning on spending the day at Shearon Harris reservoir catching bass on his beloved frog pattern. Only his truck, kayak, fishing gear and rods were not in his driveway. His kayak was recovered, but his other fishing gear was a total loss. So was his pedal drive.

Drew is a CKA angler, a friend, a brother and a fellow competitor. CKA is asking the North Carolina kayak community to join and help Drew replace his stolen gear. And because so many of us have enjoyed fun days with Drew on the water, we are going to have some fun replacing that gear: by catching fish.

This will be a week-long event, from Saturday, Oct 31st to Saturday, Nov 7th. It coincides with the CCKF tournament at Shearon Harris on Saturday Nov. 7th, and ends that same day at 4 pm.

 

Donations

  • TourneyX has graciously donated tournament support and a charity page. The entry fee for the event is $40. All entry fees from this tournament go directly to Drew Blair’s Paypal account.

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CKA 2020: The Year in Review

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2020 has been a year like no other, and it presented unique challenges to CKA’s tournament plans. But innovation and adaptation prevailed, and CKA developed a safe plan for tournament management and proceeded with our schedule as planned.  CKA anglers confronted history head on; some also made history.

Highlights

  • Larry Moua landed the longest bass ever posted in CKA competition, a 24.25” battleship he caught at the Shearon Harris tournament. It has been added to the CKA Big Bass Gallery.
  • For the 1st time ever, an angler (Charles Crews) won both the ROY and AOY titles in a single season.
  • Rick Rowland won back-to-back events, tying him with P.C. Hawj for the all-time record with 6 victories in CKA competition.
  • For the 1st time ever, an angler (Keith McGee) won the Tournament of Champions in back to back seasons. This is only the second time in the club’s history that an angler has won back-to-back events in consecutive years.
  • CKA anglers went after the top spots in the KBF Mid-Atlantic Region, winning 1st place two times (Eric Nelson and Marcus Smith). Eric Nelson also brought the Regional Angler of the Year title to Carolina.
  • In all, CKA anglers won a total of 3 KBF Trail events (Cory Dreyer won a third), and nearly won two more (Cory Dreyer and Arlie Minton each had a 2nd place finish).

Numbers

  • 7 different anglers won 1st place in 8 regular season events.
  • CKA anglers donated over $1,000 to Heroes on the Water.
  • A total of 433 anglers fished our 8 regular season events, for an average attendance of 54.5 anglers per event.

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CKA-VKBC-CCKF Battle on the Border 2020

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CKA-VKBC-CCKF

Kerr Lake (Bugg’s Island), NC/VA

The 2020 Battle on the Border

 Overview

In 2019, CKA paired up with Virginia Kayak Bass Challenge for a friendly border war.  We called it the Battle on the Border, and nearly 100 kayak anglers fished the event. On a beautiful sunny day, Tim Sabella (SC) lifted the 1st place trophy. Who will win it this year?

The 2020 Battle on the Border will take place at Kerr Lake. This year, a new club joins the event – the Central Carolina Kayak Fishing Club (CCKF).

CKA Tournament of Champions anglers can double dip and register for both events, and we are treating this event as an “Open,” which is to say it is not restricted to members of the two host trails.

This post contains

  • Lake information
  • Boundaries, Rules, launches
  • Registration links
  • Identifier Info
  • Captains Meetings time and location info
  • Payouts and KBF Qualifying Opportunities
  • Tournament Start/End Times
  • Post-Event Check-In info

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