Tag: Largemouth Bass

CKA 2024-2025 Winter Series Resumes

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CKA 2024-2025 Winter Series Resumes

The CKA Winter Series is a low-stakes series that is ideal for trying new gear, keeping the rust off and exploring new water. This year the CKA Winter Series began on Saturday, December 14th and it returns on January 18th. It will conclude with a February event and a meet & greet at Get: Outdoors on February 22 with seminars, awards and a kick-off for the 2025 regular season. We added a few new wrinkles to this year’s Winter Series event, too! What is the CKA Winter Series? First, the…

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Preview: The Battle on the Border VI

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Preview: The Battle on the Border VI

What is the Battle on the Border? The short answer: it’s a kayak fishing tournament, Virginia versus North Carolina, the Old Dominion versus the Old North State. The longer answer: it’s also when we fish for fun and celebrate our sport at the end of another successful season. The Battle on the Border is a time to camp and relax, compete and catch-up. It’s when anglers from Virginia and North Carolina renew old friendships and make new ones. It’s when our kayak fishing clubs send their crews to one of…

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Dave Hart Wins at Mackintosh

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Dave Hart Wins at Mackintosh

For the second straight tournament, a new angler has etched his name in the CKA Hall of Champions. First, Dontrell Sullivan earned his first victory at Jordan in late June, and this past weekend Dave Hart earned his first win at Mack. In addition to the money and the nice Ketch trophy, Dave Hart is now a member of a new club – he’s a CKA champion. By now, the name “Mack” resonates in a different way. When we compete on Lake Mackintosh, we expect big results. The lake out-produces…

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Lake Mackintosh Tournament Preview: Return of the Mack

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Lake Mackintosh Tournament Preview: Return of the Mack

Since 2020, when CKA and CCKF adopted the five fish limit, the two clubs have fished about seventy tournaments in North Carolina. In those seventy tournaments, nine limits of 100” or longer have been submitted to leaderboards. Of those nine limits, four of them came from Lake Mackintosh. The numbers are staggering. Lake Mackintosh has outproduced its nearest rival (Jordan) by twice the amount (four 100” limits to two). When it comes to delivering 100” limits to kayak anglers, Lake Mackintosh is the most productive fishery in North Carolina. And…

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CKA Angler of the Year Update

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CKA Angler of the Year Update

The next two CKA tournaments will decide a lot. If you are confident about Randleman and Jordan, get ready to fish. The summer bite is heating up and our Angler of the Year Race presented by Get Outdoors Paddle and Pedal is wide open. Two weeks from now you may find yourself fishing like a boss and staring down Mackintosh on July 20th like it’s the end of a Clint Eastwood movie. It’s still anyone’s title to win this season. Why? That’s because we have only fished three tournaments so…

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