2018 Results
Western Carolina Division: Event #1 Lake Keowee
What a great event today opening the BIG Adventures Western Division on Lake Keowee. We opened up 2023 along side South Carolina B.A.S.S. Nation Kayak Series. Congrats to them on having 32 anglers, their largest turnout yet. They qualified 6 anglers to the South Carolina State Championship, and paid out 6 anglers today as well.
Visit Oconee SC – Oconee County, South Carolina was amazing to work with this weekend and I can tell you now, I hope they have us back in 2024!
We had 55 anglers compete today. 2023 is off to an amazing start and the expansion is going great. This event was one we expected to be smaller and to have 55 anglers in 26 degrees this morning proves that this is going to be a big season! We launched at 7:30am, and casted at 8am and most anglers reported a slow morning bite. By mid morning, and early afternoon, Blaine Upton was busy on TourneyX.com .He judged almost 200 fish today! We ended up with 23 limits and 9 skunks today. At 5pm we headed back to the venue, ate some pizza, drank some Pepsi and hung out for a while before we ran into wifi and data issues lol. No live but we still have winners!
Jonathan Yoder took home the SC BASS win, The QCKBF West Win, and the @big adventures Big Bass award. Big day. First place in QC paid $1356 and Big Bass added another $160. Yoder had 71.50 inches, and won by virtue of tie break today. INSANE!
Also with 71.5, Yee Hang. He lands in second place and still takes home $788!
Mountain Man Jeremy Heath lands in 3rd with 67.25 and takes home $473.
Bennett Nall, the new young gunna, takes home 4th place and the The Realm Of Fear Custom Baits Elite side pot with 66.25. He takes home a total of $518!
Kyle Davis lands in 5th with 63.75 and takes home $220.
Chi Peng Xiong cashes his first QC check in 6th with 63.25 and takes home $100.
Shane Copeland rounds outs the cashing spots in 7th with 62.75 and goes home with $50.
We also had a tie for the Aaron’s Baits small bass. Drew Steele and Dustin Hugg both submitted 9 inchers, split the $120 and Drew takes home the hardware for placing higher.
2 trail events down, 16 to go!! We are back at it on March 4th for the 2023 Queen City Main- Event 2 Yadkin Yolo Presented by Rock Outdoors . Don’t miss it! Big money going home, important points for the Academy Sports + Outdoors AOY on the line.
West Event 2 Lake James Presented by BIG Adventures
Wow! April 22nd and we are 7 events in already! 2023 Queen City Kayak Bass Fishing has been a blast! Today was 2023 Queen City West- Event 2 Lake James NC Presented by BIG Adventures. We ventured to the mountains in a nasty storm this morning which led to beautiful skies but high winds late in the day. Plenty of fish were caught but with the big change in pressure the big bites were hard to come by. Most anglers sat tight in the car until about 7-730am. Once on the water the submissions started hitting TourneyX.com. Ronnie jumped out early with a quick limit but had trouble culling and finished out the day in 5th place. We ended up having 35 anglers today, which surpassed the goal of 30 for the Western Division. That means we are still on pace for a $15,000 TOC Purse! We had 113 fish submitted today. 17 limits and 6 skunks. Our big bass today was an 18 incher by Michael Cummins. He takes home $115 and a brand new YakAttack Black Pack pro! Ryan Washington had his best tournament finish yet. Seeing his excitement/disbelief was awesome. He finished 4th place with 64.5, takes home $100 and a brand new Plano Edge box! In 3rd place and running hot with back to back cashes, Chuck Farmer. Chuck took home a total of $507 which included his Aaron’s Baits 7.75incher for small bass! He also took home a Plano Edge box! Good work! In 2nd place and taking home the Elite side pot as well, for a total of $925, THE KID, Bennett Nall. Bennett had 67.75 inches and was in the lead up until the last 4 minutes. Good work kid! With a last minute Never Give Up moment, Adam Fillmore take home the Win! He had 68.75 and takes home $1092! Congrats Adam!
At the venue we had a blast. We hung out at BIG Adventures, shopped, ate 
and hot 
. We even had 
for dessert Tori M Breneman. 19 of the 35 anglers came back for a shot at a Falcon 11 and Mark Linden takes it home! Mark also actually a 19.75 that would have won big bass but he didn’t sign up for it. I will address this on a different post.
Queen City, I hope you are having a blast. 3 events in April has been crazy. Fun, busy, exciting, kind of crazy. We hit Santee, Hartwell and Lake James. All 3 divisions in play. We rest for two weeks and then we are back at Visit Anderson SC for the Main Series on Hartwell. 2023 Queen City Main- Event 4 Lake Hartwell Presented by Air One Heating and Air. This will be a fun event with a ton of fish caught and plenty of limits. Come join us for a chance at $2000 on May 6th.
Congrats to all the winners today and thank you Native Watercraft, Big Adventures and Gas House Custom Rods for presenting Lake James!
Main Trail Event 3 Santee Cooper Presented by Tourney X
2023 Queen City Main- Event 3 Santee Cooper Presented by Tourney X is in the books!!! It was an interesting weekend to say the least. Mother nature once again attacked us and threw some nasty storms and wind around the lake forcing us to move to a Sunday event. With the weather and the move we still had 161 anglers fishing on Sunday for our 3rd Main Trail event of the season. We knew Santee Cooper would give up the big fish and it showed out producing 45 fish 20 inches or longer!! 5 80 inch limits and 23 70+ limits. Not only does it show why this lake is ranked top 3 in the country, but also the caliber of angler that came through Clarendon County this weekend with QC and the BOS series. We had a great venue set up and working with Jesse Surette is a dream come true for this club. He is the best host you could ask for. Working alongside AJ Mcwhorter isnt bad either 
. I enjoy the double dip opportunity we get with this club and this 4th edition was a fun one with BOS taking QC money, and QC taking BOS money. Come 5pm, we were ready to announce the big winners, and here is how it played out.
Anglers:161
Fish Caught: 400
Fish over 20inches- 45
5- 80inch bags
23 -70inch bags
The Rock Outdoors Team Win goes home with Landon Smith and Tim Fitz – 78inches. That’s 3 team wins in a row!
Aaron’s Baits Small Bass was a two way tie with 9.5inches. Mike Self and Alex Van Dyke. Alex takes home the hardware with the higher finish. They will split the $275
Net Financial Consultants Big Bass winner was Bennett Nall with a slop at 24.25inches, setting the OFFICAL QC record for big bass and taking home $300 and an awesome Dakota Lithium Batteries powerbox!
The Elite Side Pot goes home with Chad Walden with 83.25inches, worth a bonus $878 and a Dakota Lithium battery.
Here are the overall standings which always can be found on TourneyX.com as well. I need to give a huge shoutout to Dwayne Walley for presenting this event two seasons in a row. Thank you brotha.
18th Jay Park 72.50 free entry into Lake Hartwell May 6th.
17th. Clinton Herbison 72.75. $100
16th. Alex Van Dyke 73.75. $166 plus $137 for small bass.
15th Ryan Hulsey 74.25 $171
14th. Brandon Brylinsky 75.75 $177
13th. Jason Broach 76.25 $187
12th. Garrett Wade 76.50 $192
11th. Don Cator Bustamante 77.25. $202
10th. Jordan Marshall 77.75. $222
9th. Austin Vang 78. $252
8th. Landon Smith 78.50. $308 plus $75 for the Team win
7th. Tim Sabella 79.25 $404
6th. Kristine Fischer 79.50 $505
5th. Jay Wallen Fishing 80.00 $632
4th. Guillermo González 80.50 $834
3rrd. Jim MoreSea 81,25. $1062
2nd. Chad Walden 83.25 $1315 plus $878 for Elite and $8900 for BOS!!!!! Chad I need a loan.
1st. Rus Snyders 83.25 22.25 kicker to take first and break the tie. $2124
Congrats to all of the winners. Our next event will be a massive event on Lake Hartwell with 4 or 5 clubs including the BASS Open. We will be in Visit Anderson SC on April 15th for the 2023 Queen City South- Event 2 Lake Hartwell Presented by Domestic Fence Company. Come hand out and do some fishing!
Southern Event 1 – Lake Murray
A few years ago I had a thought or a vision about expanding Queen City Kayak Bass Fishing across the Carolinas, or maybe into other states. Giving anglers at home the feel of the National scene. The bright lights, the stage, the big money, the podcasts, the hardware, the pro-staff opportunities, etc.
In 2023 with the help of some amazing sponsors I was able to bring that thought to life. I had many phone calls with Ryan Hulsey about my plan, and how we were going to track it and keep up with it all, and when we finally figured it all out, I started the process. I was able to find two amazing companies to sponsor the new division’s. BIG Adventures for the West, and Boonedox for the South. I was able to lock up an aspiring director in Blaine Upton who wanted to run and grow the South. I am able to work with amazing companies to keep boosting your payouts across all 3 series. Its all a great plan, on paper, but its not real until you hit the water. We set goals for each series before the season opener on Norman. 120 for the Main, 60 for the South and 30 for the West. Realistic? Maybe. I thought so anyway. We opened the main on Lake Norman with 131, followed on the Yolo with 120. We opened the west with a huge 55 on Keowee, and today was the season opener for the South. Would we hit the 60? Would we break 100? We had no idea. Blaine was getting thrown into the director life 100% today, that’s all we really knew. Well, at 10pm last night when we locked the event on TourneyX.com we were sitting at 64. I think Blaine took a sigh of relief, and honestly I did as well. I wasn’t exactly greeted with open arms right away as we announced the Southern division. Anglers were used to certain things, motors being the main one. Would they fish QC? Would they boycott these events? We really didn’t know. I think the questions were answered today and before I continue I want to thank every single angler who came and supported the Southern opener today on Lake Murray. I want to thank Southern Pride Softwash LLC and Todd Erickson not only for sponsoring this event, but for coming to the venue, and also coming to the expo, and joining us on the “this is not a podcast” show. I need to thank Matthew Rollins for having the faith in me and QC to pull this new division off. I need to thank Vickie with Lake Murray Country for working with us and treating us so amazing. The venue was awesome. I look forward to the next event already! Blaine did a great job directing his first QC event today. I haven’t heard of any issues with anything today. Smooth and efficient is what we were today.
So, the fishing. Yea, that’s what this really is what its all about isn’t it? Well, wow!! Lake Murray. March is your month clearly. We had an epic and record setting day on the water today. We had 13 anglers post limits of over 70 inches! We had 235 fish come across the board, and that’s with half the size field we are used to having. We had 17 fish over 20 inches come across the board today!! Over half the field limited, and only 10 anglers skunked. All around EPIC! But, who won it all!?
We paid out 7 cash spots today, plus 3 prize packages.
In 10th place with 71.25 Ryan Washington took home a A Squared baits prize pack and a framed certificate.
In 9th place with 71.50, Scott Simmons took home a prize pack and a framed certificate. Scott also won the Groovy T Bar from Boonedox!!
In 8th place with 71.75, Chad Walden went home with a prize pack and a framed certificate, and like 3 pies of pizza.
In 7th place, with 74 inches, Steven Stockinger takes home his best QC finish. Going home with the smooth $100 and a framed certificate.
In 6th place with 74.75, Alfredo Mendoza takes home $146 and a framed certificate.
In 5th place with 77.50, Nick Huddleston takes home $220 and a framed certificate.
In 4th place, Ryan Hulsey drops another solid limit of 78.25 and also takes home the The Realm Of Fear Custom Baits Elite victory. He took home a total of $1075.
In 3rd place, Jared Stanley drops 78.50 and but loses the tie breaker for $550 and a fancy piece of hardware.
In 2nd place, Pastor Mike MikeandNiki Hicks slaps 78.5 on the board, wins the tie breaker and takes home $918!!
Your big winner today is Mr. Tou Yang with 80.50 inches, including the @Big Bass Brand Big Bass at 22 inches, giving him a total of $1735!!! Not a bad day on the water!! Tou also goes home with a brand new Gas House Custom Rods!!!
Ian Oldham sneaks into the money today with his LC Angler’s Paddle Sports small bass of 9.75inches, earning him $145.
Today was amazing. This club is amazing. Only two weeks and we are back at it on Santee Cooper with the huge Hobie BOS – Bass Open Series. Jump in both events and lets have some fun! If you have any questions feel free to reach out! See you all on Jurassic Park!
Main Event 2 – Yakin Yolo Presented by Rock OutDoors
2023 Queen City Main- Event 2 Yadkin Yolo Presented by Rock Outdoors is in the books and it was a record breaker. 120 anglers took to the muddy and windy Yadkin system today. Anglers dropped some big bass on the board with 10 fish over 20inches coming across TourneyX.com. The bite was fast and furious for many anglers. Early on we had limits over 70 with one over 80! 4 fish limit for 80! That’s a fun morning. The overall weather was gorgeous. Not cold, no rain, sunshine all day.
Anglers launched at 6:30am today and started casting at 7am. Before you know it, it was 4:00pm and we were hanging out in Rock Outdoors with Shane Dublin and Jordan Stogner Lanham. The food was awesome and went perfect with the Pepsi products on hand. Lexington Visitor Center came and met Queen City Kayak Bass Fishing today. They are awesome to work with and we love visiting the Lexington NC area. Boonedox and Matthew Rollins came by and hung out also. It’s so awesome to have the people who are helping build this series come hang at the ceremony. We had about 50 anglers come back to Rock and each angler was rewarded with a nice Raffle prize from the table.
As far as fishing, we had 282 fish submitted today. Huge shout out to Mary Ferreri, Blaine Upton and Christopher Neil Cantwell for helping judge today. We had 36 limits and 35 skunks.
When it was all said and done, Kinley Martin dropped the 2023 Big Bag of the season on the board. 82.50 inches worth $2000! Congrats champ!
Just behind him with 77.5, Landon Smith takes home 2nd place and $1205. Landon and his parter also won the Team Division with 81 inches today. Back to back team wins with Tim Fitz!
Time Austin Vang stays hot and lands in 3rd place with 75 inches worth $933!
Tim Fitz adds to his team win with a 4th place finish. His 73 inches grabs $1189 from his Team, and Elite victory! Wow!
Ryan Hulsey aka Co Commish snags 5th and Net Financial Consultants Big Bass! He takes home a total of $769 with his 71.25
Yee Hang drops 71inches on the board for a 6th place $373.
Tim always cashin Sabella lands in 7th with 70 inches worth $300.
Graham Reay is back and he’s ready! 8th place with 69.25 worth $245.
Kyle Yonce takes home 9th, $202 with his 68.25
Andy Brode earns his best QC finish yet. 10th place with 68 inches taking home $175.
Jonathan Kislingbury finds himself in 11th with 66.75 and goes home with $149.
Chad Walden sneaks into the money in 12th with 66inches and takes home the smooth $100.
Shelly Efird lands in the Free entry event. He earned a free ticket into Santee with his 65.75 inches.
Will Lambert took home the Aaron’s Baits small bass award today with a 7.75 incher worth $210.
Wow! What a day! Congrats to all who cashed. Congrats to all who earned those Academy Sports + Outdoors AOY and TOC points they are looking for! Thank you all for fishing today. I hope you all had fun. We are back at it in 14 days as we open the Southern Division on Lake Murray!! Letsss gooooo.
Thank you all the sponsors who put over 50 prizes on the table today. Dakota Lithium Batteries, Laidbackrack, Bizz Baits, TKO Tungsten, @jawtech Baits, Indera Mills, YakAttack, Asquared custom baits, The Realm Of Fear Custom Baits, @windycity lures.
Event 9 Presented by Installing the Holidays and Rise Higher Shirts
Event 8 Presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors
Congrats to our winners today! Adam Fillmore smashes them for a $1500 win presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors. Justin Finger takes the Lumina Sun Smart Home 2nd place and Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass for a total of $1300!!! 3rd place goes to the Pastor MikeandNiki Hicks worth $640. Lee Hawj snags 4th worth $375. Jim Jay takes another top 5 earning himself $250. Austin Vang stays hot and wins another $150 for 6th. Mark Glendeslides into the last cash spot and takes home the $100. BrianJulie Fritts lands in 8th, the Tudor Home Services free entry bubble boy spot.
Nick Huddleston takes the Sugar Creek Coffee Roasters small Bass with a 9.75 incher worth $130. Paul Roberts lands in 15th place, but it’s good enough for the Elite side pot worth $337. Chad Walden and Frankie Wolfe clean up the Rock Outdoors Team event and take home $150.
Thank you to everyone involved. We get to do it again for event 9 next weekend! The Carolina Clash! See you all there!
Event 7 Lake Murray
2022 Event 7 Lake Murray Presented by Buddies Marine and River Runner is in the books! We had a blast on and off of the water today. A ton of work was done by Chad Walden, Jaimie Walden and Buddy Walden to get the tent set up and the food set up. We had some amazing BBQ and sides. The tent was perfect because it stormed really bad just as we were going live. Thank you Buddy’s Marine and River Runner Outdoor Center for bringing us back to the amazing Lake Murray. Thank you to the 50+ anglers who came back to weigh in. It was a smaller event today with ⛈️ predicted all day and 50+ of the 76 anglers came to eat and hang out afterwards. A true testament to the group of anglers we have here. Thank you Kelly, Vice president of Lew’s for coming and donating combos to the kids! Thank you to all the sponsors for having a raffle prize for every angler. Thank you to all the anglers who fished today. It was great seeing you all again after not having a trail event in August.
We had 181 fish come across TourneyX.com today. The platform worked flawlessly and if you are comparing platforms across the sport, Dwayne Walley has the best product in my opinion. We had numerous fish over 20 inches today and 3 over 22 inches!
We went live with the full report but here are the standings for anyone who missed the Live feed.
Chris Goodwin claims another win with 74 inches worth $1500. He and Ronnie also won the Rock Outdoors team division today for another $150.
Jeremy Heath takes home the Lumina Sun Smart Home 2nd place $1000 plus the Academy Sports + Outdoors Elite side pot for another $540. He had 70.5 inches.
Chad Walden takes home 3rd place with 70.25 inches and takes home $667
Kyle Hancock had himself a day. He lands 69.25 inches, anchored by a 23.75 incher, earning him the Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass award, plus he takes the lead for the Bizz Baits Big Bass of the Year!! He took home $751! He also won the free Jordan entry with the Marshall bounty.
In 5th Jordan Marshall from TN. Jordan had 67.25 inches and takes home $259
In 6th Hammer Time Austin Vang with 66.50 inches. He took home $220.
In 7th Ronnie Murphy takes home $163 with 65.50 inches.
In 8th Pastor MikeandNiki Hicks takes home $100 with 63 inches.
In 9th, the Tudor Home Services bubble boy, Mark Glende takes home a free Event 8 entry!
Chuck Farmer lands his first top 10 at a QC event! Congrats on 10th.
Gustavo Benitez takes home the $145 Sugar Creek Coffee Roasters small Bass pot with a 7.75 incher on a Ned rig.
Great work all!!
Tonight we will find out who lands in the top 25 spots for the BASS State Championship next week!!! The NeoGenix AOY race is forming now after 7 events have been fished. Anglers are battling!!!
We venture to Raleigh next month on October 1st to visit Falls and Jordan Lake. This is our first visit out east. We are looking for a big turnout, see ya there!!
Here is the live link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1452553795005069/permalink/3282756095318154/
Event 6 Catawba Clash
Here is the Zoom recap from the 2nd annual Catawba Clash! We had 96 anglers across 9 lakes, spanning both Carolina’s today! It was an awesome event with 263 fish coming through TourneyX.com today, and anglers reporting catching 10-15 fish each. We had 31 anglers fill limits today and only 19 anglers skunk. I want to give a huge shoutout to Native Watercraft for being our premier sponsor and always making sure the hometown club is taken care of.
Jim Jay was able to top the charts today with 74.25 inches on Lake Norman, including the Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass Award with his 21.75 inch kicker. Jim takes home $1800.
Right behind with with 73.75 inches of Lake Norman bass, Mike Constable going home with $1000.
In 3rd, with 70.5 inches of Lake Norman Bass, Teng Vue takes home $1351 including another Academy Sports + Outdoors Elite win!!
In 4th, fishing his first Queen City Kayak Bass Fishing event, and just showing up to Lake Norman, Sammy Wilson goes home with $548 for his 68.25inches.
Rounding out the top 5, Ronnie Murphy with 67.75 worth $428!
In 6th, Mountain Boy Jeremy Heath takes home $329 with his 66.25 inches.
In 7th with 65.5 inches, Tim Fitz goes home with $263. Tim also earned another $75 with his Rock Outdoors Team Win with his partner Landon.
In 8th Tim Sabella takes home $219 with 64.25 inches.
In 9th Matt Hawj- takes home $175 with 64 inches.
In 10th, Landon Smith takes home a total of $175 including his team win!
In 11th, taking home the Tudor Home Services Bubble Boy, Jacob Davis with 63.5 inches.
Corey Racer wins the Sugar Creek Coffee Roasters Small Bass award with his monster 5.5 incher, and that was worth $175.
This was a great event and I cant wait to see you all in August for our annual Charity event!! Big news coming soon for that one!! If you need anything, just holla!!!!
July 17th we have the 2nd annual Multi Brand Demo day. Check the event tab for more info.
Event 5 Lake Wateree Presented by Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists of Charlotte
2022 Event 5 Lake Wateree Presented by Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists of Charlotte Weigh in!
Congrats Chris Goodwin on taking home the title and $1500 today!
Congrats Larry Wood on the Lumina Sun Smart Home 2nd place and $1000.
Congrats Kyle Hancock on 3rd place and $846.
Congrats Kinley Martin on 4th and $529. Kinley was also the highest finisher in a Native Watercraft, earning another $50!
Congrats Nick Huddleston on 5th, the Academy Sports + Outdoors Elite win, and the Rock Outdoors Team win for a total of $1095!
Congrats Chris Gravely on 6th and $317.
Congrats Buddy’s Marine on 7th, beating Chad Walden and earning $253, + one signed dollar.
Congrats Teng Vue aka, Flippin, on 8th and $211.
Congrats Jeremy Heath on 9th and $169.
Congrats Yee Hang on a top 10 and $100.
Congrats Jay Park on your Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass, and Team win, plus the Tudor Home Services bubble boy for a total of $375 and a free July event.
Congrats Skip Lohmeyer on the Sugar Creek Coffee Roasters small bass with an 8 incher worth $165.
The NeoGenix Angler of the Year race is taking form after 5 events. Don’t forget, we drop your lowest three events so right now, nothing is even close to in stone! Keep fishing hard and I will see you all next month for our Catawba Clash! 9 Lakes open across the Carolina’s. If you need anything from me let me know!
Event 4 Lake Hartwell Presented by AirOne Heating & Air
We had a great day today down in Visit Anderson SC!! AirOne Heating and Air brought us back for another round on Lake Hartwell, and we brought the Peach State Kayak Anglers with us! We had 148 anglers fish in some amazing weather today. We had a great venue at the Hilton Garden Inn of Anderson and Neil Paul made sure us kayak guys and gals, were very well taken care of! I love coming down here not only as an angler, but also a director. We are already planning 2023!
I had a feeling that the fishing should be on fire today, and for once, I was right. We had 531 fish come through TourneyX.com, and anglers reporting catching between 20-40 fish all day long. Report of large wolfpacks up shallow containing 5 pounders, and huge spots out deep over points and ledge’s made for anglers catching big bags today! Before we get into the full recap I want to thank every person who is involved with Queen City Kayak Bass Fishing. The amazing sponsors for keeping us the best paid club around. The sponsors for filling the table. About 60 anglers went home with a prize today. My team, both on site, and behind the curtains. You all for fishing. EVERYONE!
We had a battle at the top today, and a few different lead changes for Big and Small bass. It was fun to judge and keep my thumb on the pulse of the lake as the standings shifted. When it all wrapped up, we had 82 limits, only 18 skunks. Mr. Ste JJ Heu from GA takes home the crown and $2015! He had 78.25 inches today. Only 1 inch behind him, Jay Park takes home the Lumina Sun Smart Home second place spot worth $1255! Taking home the Academy Sports + Outdoors Elite Side Pot, and 3rd place, Chris Goodwin with 74.25, worth a total of $2167. Mark Glende has a solid day and lands in 4th place with 73.25 worth $837, plus $50 for being the highest finisher in a Native Watercraft! Travis Dockins signs up late last night and rounds out the top 5 with 72.75 inches, earning him $565. Landon Smith sticks a tank and finishes in 6th with 72.50inches, worth $460, plus takes home the Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass with a 22.75 monster! Congrats! Bryce Beyer, part of BRYCE and WES Fishing has a killer day, landing in 7th with 70.50, taking home $366! Silent favorite, Joseph Gayton lands in 8th with 70.25, and walks away with $303. Matt Hawj lands in 9th with 69.25, earning $256.
Rounding out the top 10, Terry Mcclure in his first kayak event, with 69inches for $219.
11th- Andy Middleton- 68.25- $188
12th- Tim Sabella- 67.75- $177
13th- Ryan Breneman- 67.75- $167
14th- Jeremy Heath- 67.25- $162
15th- Jeremy Meadows- 67- $100
16th- Michael Copeland- 66.25- Free Lake Wateree Entry
Shane Mackey takes home $310 with a 7 incher earning him the Sugar Creek Coffee Roasters Small Bass title this month!
Chris Goodwin and Ronnie Murphy take home the Rock Outdoors Team Division, earning another 300 points and $150!
Another huge thank you to all the anglers who came and fished from both clubs. I loved bringing two clubs, and two states together for some fun today! Lets do it again in 2023!! 🙂
We have our 5th event of 2022, June 11th on Lake Wateree. This event will have a virtual weigh in. We will consider making it a longer fishing day since we wont have a venue, food, weigh in. Come hang out!
Event 2 Santee Cooper Presented by TourneyX
What a great event today on Santee! We fished along side the BOS event and had 200 anglers on the QC side! Thank you TourneyX.com for sponsoring this event, and thank you to all the anglers for supporting the club. I want thank Jesse and Justin from Clarendon County Chamber of Commerce for supporting both clubs and making sure we had a great weekend.
Mother nature messed with the lake bad over the past week and capped it off with 30-40mph winds today. Horrible conditions across both lakes made for some tough fishing. We had 337 fish submitted today, with 41 limits and 82 skunks.
Eric Siddiqi continues his hot streak in South Carolina. He only landed 4 fish today, but it was enough to take home first place and the Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass for a total of $2722!! Eric had 82in.
Not far behind him, Terrik Joe Walker with 79.5 taking home the Lumina Sun Smart Home 2nd place of $1514.
Rus Snyders takes 3rd place with 79.25 and wins $1211.
Tyler Smith takes 4th and the Rock Outdoors Team Win for a total of $1043. His partner Adam Fillmore won the Sugar Creek Coffee Roasters small bass with a 7.25incher worth $285.
Rounding out the top 5, Joel Thomas Blair with 77in and going home with $716.
6th- Jason Stoddard $565
7th- Matt Hawj $439
8th- Cher Tou Thao $363
9th- Nolan Minor $282
10th- Alex Fiolka $257
11th- Teng Vue and the Academy Sports + Outdoors Elite pot $972
12th- Russell Johnson $227
13th- Chris Gravely $217
14th- Matthew Vann $211
15th- Matt Millard $206
16th- Joseph Scarlett $201
17th- Shane Williams $196
18th- William Queen $191
19th- Jim Jay $186
20th- Nick Huddleston $181
21st- MikeandNiki Hicks $100
22nd- Matthew Tyler Hulsey Free Yadkin Yolo.
Thank you Native Watercraft for bringing us QCKBF 2022! It has been an amazing start! We are rolling into the Yadkin Yolo in a few weeks! Come see us at Rock Outdoors! A huge shoutout to the 80+ prizes on the table today! Huge shoutout to Aaron’s Baits for coming to hang out and make sure everyone went home with some bonus baits!
Thank you team! Thank you judges!
Event 1 Lake Norman Presented by Todd Sides Realty
Season 8 started off with a bang on February 19th 2022. We opened the season on Lake Norman with the support of Visit Mooresville and The Pit Indoor Kart Racing. 146 anglers signed up for the event which was our season opener record and also the Queen City Kayak Bass Fishing stand alone event record. We have had higher, but it included a double dip event. Native Watercraft was excited to make this the largest season ever and we are off to a good start! Todd Sides Real Estate Agent NC was our presenting sponsor for Event 1 and he has been super excited for that opportunity for a long time. The weather yesterday was a mixed bag, as was the fishing. The morning started off cool and calm with bright sun. Anglers were choosing where to fish from the 11 Lake Norman ramps. Most were anticipating high winds in the afternoon, and we taking that into consideration. The weather changed for the worse around noon. The wind kicked up, creating some tough conditions, but also led to the fish turning on and the actual fishing improving for most of the field. We fished from 8:00-4:00pm yesterday and then over 100 anglers met at The Pit for a weigh in ceremony with food, drinks and snacks. I was lucky enough to be on a media boat captained by Wes Cloninger. I hired a professional photographer and we drove all over the lake take amazing shots of the anglers. Those pictures will be released tomorrow. Mary Ferreri and William Benini were judging fish all day, start to finish. We ended the day with 146 anglers, 334 fish, 39 limits and 40 skunks. I was on the Carolina Kayak Lunker Hunters Podcast last week and I said on the show we would see some big bags this weekend on Norman, and I think I was right.
In first place with 76.25, Mark Wilkins goes home with $2000! Mark was also fishing from his Native Watercraft so he takes home another $50 bonus cash! Congrats on qualifying* for the 2022 TOC as well!
Not far behind in the Lumina Sun Smart Home second place, with 72.50, Ronnie Murphy is going home with $1150, $675 for the Academy Sports + Outdoors Elite Win, and another $75 for the Rock Outdoors Team Win. A total of $1900!
Rounding out the top 3, Chris Goodwin with 71.50. He takes home a total of $1030 which includes his Rock Outdoors Team Win.
Making the top 5, in 4th, Mr. Hammer Time AKA Austin Vang with 70 inches worth $725. Right behind him in 5th, Keng Vang with 68.50 for $630!
In 6th place, Nick Huddleston takes home $496, plus $300 for his Emerald School of Excellence and Academy Sports + Outdoors Big Bass award! His 20.50 inch earned him a total of $796!
In 7th, and making a huge comeback after a tough start, Joey Randall with 68.25 worth $440.
In 8th with 67.75 Tyler Smith goes home with $360.
In 9th with 67.75 Logan Talbert goes home with $305.
In 10th with 67.25 Tracy Stanford goes home with $240.
In 11th with 66.75 Chris Grant goes home with $200.
In 12th with 66.50 Jared Branch goes home with $170.
In 13th with 63.25 Yee Hang starts strong again with $150.
In 14th with 63, Co Commish Ryan Hulsey goes home with $125.
In the final cash spot Adam Fillmore with 62.50 takes home $100.
In the Tudor Home Services Bubble Boy spot, Larry Wood earns a free entry into Event 2 at Santee with 61.25.
Jeremiah Whitlow takes home the Sugar Creek Coffee Roasters Small bass pot for $230 with a 9.5 incher! TANK!!
Risen Son Custom Lures donated a free entry for the Santee Event and Trent Davis won it but is unable to use it. We re-ran it, Jeff Travis is our new winner. Congrats!!
We paid out a total of $9,451 yesterday!
We also put $858 into the TOC pot!
Thank you so much to all the anglers who call QC Home!! We are blessed to have a group of people around us as awesome as you. Thank you to all the sponsors who support us. The table was so packed again that EVERY ANGLER in the room, which was over 100, went home with a prize!! Thank you judges, captains, photographer’s, website creator, YT creator, IG creator, everyone who has a hand in this QC thing! I couldn’t do this without you all!
Lets keep this train rolling into Jurassic Park. We will be on Santee on March 26th with the Hobie BOS – Bass Open Series crew. We are lucky enough to have the opportunity to double dip with AJ Mcwhorter and them Hobie boys. I know about 80 of us got into the BOS event, and I anticipate many of them coming to the QC side. I am seeing 250 anglers for this one!!
Have a great weekend!!
January 2022 Warm Up Event
Great day today for the Warm Up. Congrats to our winners today. We had 36 anglers but Joey Sullivan proved he was the man to beat. He took home $1000 with his 72.5 inches, including a 21.75 kicker!
A quarter inch behind him, Jeremy Heath with 72.25 inches, going home with $600! Jeremy also has a good kicker at 21.25.
Pastor MikeandNiki Hicks in 3rd place by virtue of losing a tie break. 72.25, with a 21.25 kicker and going home with $400.
Rounding out the cash spots, Frankie Wolfe with 70 inches taking home $100.
Drew Steele had a giant 22.25 inches today. He wins big bass and takes home $150.
Congrats all! The big dances start in a month! See you all at Norman! Thank you TourneyX.com for having us.
Big Bass No Limit Presented by Native Watercraft
Good morning Queen City Kayak Bass Fishing. What an amazing weekend we had here in the Carolina’s. We had our first ever Big Bass, No Limit event, featuring the Power Hour presented by Native Watercraft!! My team has been working on this event for a few months, and we were excited to be given the opportunity to use QCKBF as the test platform and let me tell you, you all knocked it out of the park!! Your excitement, participation, engagement on Zoom has sparked us to move forward 100%. I will be announcing the 2022 date, and info tonight on Kayak Bass Nation with Jeff Malott annnnnnnndddddddddd the infamous Ryan Lambert . Blaine Upton will be joining in as well to talk about his amazing record breaking catch. This event was the beginning of more to come and you will see that tonight.
I wanted to take a second and congratulate all of the winners this weekend. Our total inches winner was Jeremy Heath, putting the icing on his 2021 cake. He took home $1000 and a brand new Native Watercraft Slayer Max 10! Jeremy had 12 keepers for over 181 inches. We paid out the top 8 anglers with this No Limit format. All winning at least $125.
2nd- Matt Hawj
3rd- Frankie Wolfe
4th- MikeandNiki Hicks
5th- Jay Park
6th- Skip Lohmeyer
7th- Larry Wood
8th- Terry Smith
We were also were lucky enough to pay out $1000 an hour, every hour, to the Big Bass winner of each hour.
In hour 1, Peter M. Eley took home $1000.
In hour 2, Gary Stewart took home $1000 with his PB Fish!
In hour 3, Blaine Upton took home $1000, and the overall Big Bass with a 24incher. He also takes home Native Watercraft Slayer Max 12.5
In hour 4 Chris Goodwin takes home $1000
In hour 5 Frankie Wolfe takes home $1000
In hour 6 Phanat Vang takes home $1000
In hour 7 Matt Hawj takes home $1000
In hour 8 Larry Wood takes home $1000
This event was a lot of fun to be a part of! Round 2, coming soon!! Check in tonight for that date!
Emerald Charity Event Presented by Bizz Baits
What a great Emerald Charity Event Presented by Bizz Baits !!! We had 110 anglers come out and raised a bunch of money! I have to give a huge Shout out to everyone involved. From judging, banner set up, sponsor prizes, pizza, drinks etc. This is a full on community event which showcases what makes QCKBF special. The weather was brutally hot today. Water temps between 86-93 degrees. Only 13 limits were put in today, but…..every angler who came to the weigh in went home with a prize!! About 60 people I’d say. Chris Goodwin goes home the big champ, and Lee Hawj takes home the grand prize Native Watercraft Falcon! Congrats on the top 10 today going home with prize packs, certificates and gems! Gustavo Benitez wins a massive prize package for Big Bass with his Jig Eating 19.75 incher! Congrats! The live weigh in was posted on the page. Here are a bunch of pictures. Our next trail event is September 11th on Lake Murray!Ps. Thank you all who supported that lemonade stand!!!
Event 8 Yakin YOLO present by Rock Outdoors
Well well well. Event 8, the Yadkin Yolo presented by Rock Outdoors is in the books! It was a hot summer day on the Yadkin chain, and for most the fishing was tough today. We had a fun outing at the shop on Friday, talked fishing and kayaks, and then we all went home and prepped for battle. We had 87 anglers join us this month, which for summer isn’t bad at all!! We had 14 limits, 31 skunks, and 139 fish were submitted. 4 lakes were in play, High Rock, Badin, Tuckertown and Tillery, along with many access points. Anglers spread out well today. Mary Ferreri and Brad Cox said the pictures were on point, and did the usual amazing job judging and working behind the scenes on TourneyX.com. Ryan Hulsey has all of the yearly standings calculated and will post here shortly. The season is winding down with only two regular season events left. Drops hit this month and shook things up a little. When it was all said and done we were back at the shop eating pizza, drinking waters and soda, and flat out enjoying each others company. Aaron Trexler was the big dog today. He dropped a massive 76.75 inches on the Ketch Products Inc. board and walks away with $1250.Cher Tou Thao also had a great day weighing in 67in and winning $710! Having his best QC day to date, William Queen drops 65.75in and takes 3rd place, and the Elite Side Pot for a total of $1163!!! Joey Randall not on home water shows his true hammer status and grinds for a 4th place finish with 65.75in worth $435.Showing that practice and hard work pay off, Chad Walden with a huge, season changing 5th place with 64.50 worth $300. I got to watch Tony Grissom smoke fish today and finish in 6th with 63.25 worth $200.Another big finish and new casher in QC, with his first EVER QC LIMIT, Peter M. Eley lands in 7th with 62.25in and takes home $170.Shelly Efird gets back into the action, landing in 8th with 62in, taking home $140.Yee Hang cashing again, in 9th with 59.50in, worth $100. Joshua Myers will be dropping some 10th place YouTube content with 58.75in and a free Lake Murray Entry! Vinny the Commish takes home the Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass award with a 21incher worth $340.Jeremy Heath takes home more QC money with the Yak Bass’n small bass award with a 2.75incher worth $195. Ryan Hulsey and the Commish take home the $100 NeoGenix Team Division today, making the yearly standings very tight!! Thank you to all of our amazing sponsors. Every angler who attended weigh in this afternoon left with a door prize! Laidbackrack, donated a bunch of racks as well!! Fun stuff!! Our next event is the Emerald Charity Event!! Bizz Baits is pumping out baits for us and wants a huge turnout! Lets hit the 150 mark and raise a bunch of money! September 11th we are back with the trail events on Lake Murray presented by River Runner, LC Angler’s Paddle Sports and Buddy’s Marine!! If you have any questions let me know!! Thank you all for being a part of QCKBF.
Event 7 Carolina Clash presented by Alloy Wheel Repair of Charlotte
Event 7 was a fun one!! 9 lakes across the Catawba Chain and cash was won from 6 of them!!! The Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists of Charlotte event ended up having 104 anglers on a hot June day in the Carolina’s. Thank you all for coming out today, and tuning into the live Zoom weigh-in. We ended up with 81 anglers submitting fish, 47 limits, 301 fish total, and 24 skunks. We had some really good bags get weighed in today, and 3 anglers went home with right at $1000 or more!! That’s insane! The season is 70% over and points are at a premium right now as we battle for the The Angler Magazine Charlotte NC AOY title, the COLDPRUF 2nd and 3rd AOY payouts and the Buddy’s Marine/ Dry Otter Waterproofing Inc. TOC event! Chris Goodwin and Joey Randall took home the NeoGenix Team Division win today with 73.25inches. Congrats boys on your $100.Gustavo Benitez takes home not only the Yak Bass’n small bass award, but the yearly leader as well with a 2.5inch bass!! I really was a 1.5 inch, but we had to add an inch for penalty. He went home with $265 today!! We had 4 bags break the 70inch mark today! That’s impressive for this time of year! Scott Simmers takes home first place and $1,330 today with 74 inches of Lake Wateree Bass!!
Congrats on a huge first QCKBF Win! Leng Vang was right behind him with 73 inches of Lake Hickory Bass, and a stud 21 incher to claim the Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass title!!
Leng is going home with $1105!!
Teng Vue landed in 3rd place with 71.5 inches, which was also enough to lock up the Elite Side pot! Teng is taking home $988!
Ronnie Murphy lands in 4th place with 71.25 inches and wins $490!
Rounding out the top 5, Chris Goodwin with 69.25 inches worth $360.
6th- Chris Grant 66in- $270
7th- Yee Hang 65.75- $245
8th- Jeremy Heath 65.75- $200
9th- Nick Huddleston 65.75- $165
10th- Tony Grissom 65in- $130
11th- Mike Constable 64.75- $100
12th- Graham Reay 64.5- Free Yadkin YoloThank you for the continued support Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists of Charlotte!!
Our next event is July 24th, on the Yadkin Chain!! Rock Outdoors is excited to have us!! More details will be posted in the event soon!!
Check out the 2017 Results