Tag: Largemouth Bass

February CKA Newsletter: Rules updates

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February CKA Newsletter: Rules updates

February 2018 CKA Newsletter Hi everyone, With the CKA tournament season ready to begin, anglers are preparing gear, shaking off paddling rust and pre-fishing water. It’s been a long winter and we’re all ready to fish! Please read this post, which reviews important rules changes. Working together with Kayak Bass Fishing, our tournament directors reviewed and amended CKA rules. There are some very important rule changes to review and adopt. The following is a summary of the more important changes: Do not place your identifier anywhere on the fish. This…

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2018 CKA Rookie of the Year Announcement

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2018 CKA Rookie of the Year Announcement

  We are proud to announce, for the first time in CKA’s 5-year history, that we will crown a 2018 CKA Rookie of the Year (ROY) at season’s end.  As kayak angling continues to grow (in particular kayak bass fishing), we devised the ROY as a way to welcome and reward newcomers to our series who fish throughout the season with us. And so: The Rookie who achieves the four highest event point totals at the conclusion of the 2018 season (Gate City Kayak Classic) will be our first ever…

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CKA Tournament 1: Lake Hyco

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CKA Tournament 1: Lake Hyco

CKA Tournament #1 February 24, 2018 Lake Hyco Season Five of the Carolina Kayak Anglers tournament trail begins on Lake Hyco, a new lake to the CKA Trail. Located in the northern central Piedmont, Hyco is a large power company reservoir covering 3,500 acres. Its 160 miles of shore line are dotted with docks as well as natural structure, supporting a fishery known for many freshwater species. This will be a Black Bass Tournament but Hyco recently made the news for a most unusual reason: because of its warm, calcium-rich…

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CKA Anglers in 2017 KBF Open & Trail Events

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CKA Anglers in 2017 KBF Open & Trail Events

CKA Anglers in 2017 KBF Open& Trail Events This is the last of three posts reviewing CKA anglers in national competition. The first post reviewed CKA results at the National Championship, while the second reviewed on line Challenge tournaments. Where the National Championship is currently the largest and potentially most lucrative tournament event in the country, and the on-line events are longer yet pay out less, the Open and Trail events are intermediate between them: they pay out more, tend to be large regional events and also earn more AOY…

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CKA Anglers in 2017 KBF Challenge Events

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CKA Anglers in 2017 KBF Challenge Events

CKA Anglers in 2017 KBF Online Events Dozens of CKA anglers are KBF members, and as members they can compete in select online tournament events. For them, 2017 was a landmark year, as CKA anglers competed at a high level in nearly every one of the season’s KBF “Challenge” events. This post recognizes their hard work and celebrates their achievements. Kayak Bass Fishing holds two categories of “Challenge” events every season. First, there are the popular KBF Monthly Challenges, which are organized by state. Second, there are the nationwide “Special…

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