Tag: kayak bass fishing

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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CKA 2020: The Year in Review

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CKA 2020: The Year in Review

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…

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Kayak Bass Fishing Trail and KBF Membership

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Kayak Bass Fishing Trail and KBF Membership

CKA anglers won roughly $30,000 fishing in KBF events in 2019. And the winners were not only the usual suspects. About one dozen anglers won cash and prizes in on-line events and larger regional tournaments. An example – Adam Petrone qualified for both the 2020 National Championship and the Challenge Series Cup by winning the June State Challenge. He drove to Wisconsin in October and won his first big check. He’ll be fishing for another check  at Guntersville in April. His KBF membership and state challenge sign-up fees have paid…

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CKA & KBF February On-Line Tournaments

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CKA & KBF February On-Line Tournaments

  As large tournaments begin in Florida this week, the 2020 can be said to finally be underway! We will have several exciting announcements to make in the coming weeks as we welcome new sponsors and roll out a new, improved payout format and other previews of the 2020 CKA season. But first we want to encourage anglers to sign up for CKA and KBF on line tournaments in February. Here is why: CKA will be running occasional on-line events, and not all of them will be month long tournaments….

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