Tag: kayak fishing tournaments

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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The 2022 Battle on the Border

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The 2022 Battle on the Border

In 2019, Carolina Kayak Anglers (CKA) paired with Virginia Kayak Bass Challenge (VKBC) for a friendly inter-state tournament to be held on Kerr Lake in July of that year.  Nearly 100 kayak anglers fished the event. The prize? Bragging rights, and a trophy to prove it. The spirit of camaraderie was strong that day and the two clubs decided to make the event an annual tradition. We called it the Battle on the Border. The Battle on the Border has been held every year since then at Kerr Lake and…

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CKA Anglers place at the 2022 NC BASS Kayak Nation State Championship

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CKA Anglers place at the 2022 NC BASS Kayak Nation State Championship

When B.A.S.S. announced its Bassmaster Nation Kayak Series in 2019, the American kayak tournament fishing scene was booming. For context: Kayak Bass Fishing had recently partnered in the first tournament with a major bass fishing trail (the FLW Cup), CKA and its partner KBF had already brought several large KBF Trail events to the state, and Hobie B.O.S., still a young trail, was making strides and growing into a major nation series (Hobie would hold an event at Lake Norman the following year). It seemed as though there would be…

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