Tag: kayak fishing tournaments

Tsiolkas Continues Hot Streak with Gaston Win

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Tsiolkas Continues Hot Streak with Gaston Win

Intro Carolina Kayak Anglers (CKA) held its third tournament of the 2023 season this weekend at Lake Gaston. Sponsored by Greensboro Gardens and Powered by Dakota Lithium, the event also featured the Str8UpMounts Big Bass prize, making for a trifecta of excellent top prizes. Additionally, CKA delivered on a raft of other prizes for the more than forty anglers who braved difficult weather to explore a new lake and grind out points toward the Angler of the Year title. Blair Heats Up, Wins Tie-Breaker Gaston is literally an outlier because…

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CKA Announces Two New Awards for 2023 Season!

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CKA Announces Two New Awards for 2023 Season!

Carolina Kayak Anglers normally awards two top prizes every season. In 2023, we will add two more. One of them is a once-in-a-decade achievement award, too! But first, let’s review the two standard, classic awards. The list CKA Angler of the Year champions is short – in 9 previous seasons, a total of 6 anglers have won the AOY title. That list includes some of the top anglers in the history of kayak bass fishing in the Old North State. The list of Rookie of the Year Champions is an…

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CKA’s 10th Anniversary Season: A Preview

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CKA’s 10th Anniversary Season: A Preview

2023 marks CKA’s 10th anniversary season. We will celebrate our anglers and the club’s pioneering role in growing the sport of kayak fishing in North Carolina. First, some highlights of our 2023 season, which is again powered by Dakota Lithium! A “greatest hits” schedule packed with some of the most popular bass fisheries in North Carolina The new “20 for 23” online series An “Angler of the Decade”title (in addition to the usual AOY and ROY titles) The new Str8UpMounts Big Bass Award New sponsors and prize opportunities A return…

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CKA 2022: The Year in Review

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CKA 2022: The Year in Review

The 9th regular season of the CKA Trail series began on Falls Lake in March. The wind was strong that day but the turnout was stronger, and the trend continued over a busy season that concluded on Lake Tillery in November at the Tournament of Champions. Over the course of nearly eight months, CKA anglers travelled and fished North Carolina’s best bass fisheries. Along the way, a veteran angler captured his first title, a Virginia angler captured the Rookie of the Year, and CKA anglers had strong showings at both…

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Battle on the Border IV recap: Nelson Delivers for N.C.

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Battle on the Border IV recap: Nelson Delivers for N.C.

The 4th annual edition of the Battle on the Border was a year of firsts. At the check-in, for example, former Carolina Kayak Anglers (CKA) director Wayne Butler showed anglers a photo of a Smallmouth Bass he caught that day. It was the first one caught in our four years of kayak fishing competition at Kerr Lake. It wasn’t the only first of the day. When it was over, North Carolina finally won its first ever Battle on the Border trophy (the trophies for the first 3 events all went…

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