CKA Tournament 9 Tournament of Champions Lake Norman October 21-22, 2017 The Tournament of Champions marks the end of the CKA tournament season. CKA established the Tournament of Champions to reward the top 25 anglers in the AOY standings with an opportunity to fish for one last prize – a winner take all event. The 2016 edition was a single day event won by Denny Romero on the Yadkin River. Similar to last year’s attendance of 19 anglers, the 2017 edition drew 18 of the top 25 anglers (a few…
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The CKA AOY, Top 25 and Complete Standings
First of all, we extend congratulations to P.C. Hawj, the 2017 Angler of the Year! By winning two consecutive events in June and July, P.C. won the A.O.Y. title and prizes, which included a new Jackson Cuda HD, a new Bending Branches Ace paddle, a new YakAttack BlackPak, and a $500 Get Outdoors gift card. For more information about his season follow the link to the AOY 2017 page on our website. Congratulations also to the anglers who qualified for the Tournament of Champions at Lake Norman! (We will post…
Read MoreGate City Classic 2017
CKA Tournament 8 The Gate City Classic Multi-Lake Kayak Fishing Tournament September 30th, 2017 Hi everyone, and get ready for the Gate City Classic! As many of you know, the Classic is when we celebrate our season with fishing and food and announce the AOY. A number of prizes, qualifications and details are also determined on this final day of the regular season. They include: AOY winner. The CKA Angler of the Year wins a Jackson Cuda HD, Yak Attack Black Pak, a Bending Branches paddle and a $500 Get:Outdoors…
Read MoreCKA 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…
Read MoreCKA AOY Update June 2017
Hello everyone and thanks again to all of the anglers who recently fished at Lake Badin, as well as our sponsors for their generosity. CKA tournament attendance is up from last year and we are on track break our seasonal attendance record. A few numbers below, courtesy of Mr. Butler: 296 Anglers have fished in our 5 events to date 139 different people have fished at least one of our events in 2017 60 angler average per event Once again, we thank everyone who competes with us to make CKA…
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