Today is a big day if you are a QCKBF member. Today marks Event 7 of the 2020 season. Your 7th opportunity to earn points in the The Angler Magazine Charlotte NC AOY and TOC race. The standings will really get shaken up when event 8 and 9 add drops into the mix!!

Today we visited High Rock Lake for the first time as a club. Our sponsor for this event was Rock Outdoors, and wow, they did an amazing job hosting us. It was a pleasure to work with Jordan Stogner Lanham and Shane Dublin, and I hope we get this opportunity again in 2021.

We had 69 anglers come out and fish today, bringing our monthly average to 93 anglers!! WOW! The lake was tough today, but some big bass and big bags were posted up for sure. We had 19 limits today, and 20 skunks, with 30 people catching 1,2, or 3 bass.

We launched at 5:30am and broke a sweat by the time we were able to cast at 6am. It was a hot day, with the wind picking up around 10am. The water was between 82-88 degrees, with stain throughout the lake. With 5 ramps open, we had anglers spread out from the river to the dam, battling boats and jet skis. When last submission hit at 3pm, the results were in.

Landing in first was Tim Always Cashin Sabella with a huge limit of 75.75 inches. Congrats on your $1100 Tim! Tim said he lost a fish that would have topped the 80 inch mark!! Man o Man.

Grinding and catching fish all day was Chase Helms in 2nd place. Chase has a solid bag at 70.75, anchored by his Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass at 22inches. He took home a total of $865!! Congrats kid!

Taking home his first QC cash today in third was the Baby Gangsta himself, Brian BG Brakefield. Brian had 69 inches and won $465!

Matt Hawj made another top 5 appearance and lands in 4th with 68.75, earning $360. Rounding out the top 5, Aaron Trexler drops 68.50 on the board and wins $250.

MikeandNiki Hicks shakes the dust off and snatches his first QC cash in 6th place with 64.25 earning $165 today. Larry Wood rounds out the cash spots in 7th with 63.75 earning $100. Bubble boy Tyler Smith lands in 8th with 63.50 and the tiebreak for a free entry into the next event on Santee.

Dustin Hugg takes some hardware back to the mountains today. He wins the Yak Bass’n small bass award with a 7.75 incher worth $150!

Congrats to all of the winners today. Ryan Hulsey will get the standings updated and posted.

Our next event is another new lake for QC. Home of giant bass, Santee Cooper Sc on July 25th. I will make the event ASAP, I need some time to find all of the ramps for this one.

Thank you all for being a part of QCKBF. If you need anything, let me know.

Event 5 was today. We called it the First annual Carolina Clash. This event was originally going to be on MIL, but with the growth of the club, we made a decision to open all three home lakes. The sponsor Installing The Holidays was extremely excited for this opportunity, and looking back at it, it was awesome. We had 102 anglers come take their best shot with QCKBF today on Lake Norman, Lake Wylie and MIL. We had about 500 fish submitted to TourneyX.com today. Fishing was on fire for most. We had 56 limits turned in today, and only 11 skunks. The weather was amazing, finally, but….. That brought out the pleasure boaters. Boat traffic, jet ski traffic, and even planes landing on the water made things annoying for the anglers.

At the end of the day we had the new style weigh in lol. Live on FB. We were able to pay out 12 anglers today. A lot of valuable The Angler Magazine Charlotte NC AOY points were earned today as well. Hard to believe we are over half way done with 2020.

I want to give a huge congratulations to our winners today. Taking home a check against 102 anglers is impressive. The level of competition is very high here in QC.

First place went home with hot streak Melvin Yang. He had 73.75in worth $1220.

In a tie with 73.75, Jeremy Heath takes 2nd worth $770. Rounding out the top 3, Corey Racer goes home with $650 for his 69.5in.

Mike Constable shows up and takes home a solid $490 with 69 inches!

The comeback is official now. Buster Swisher takes home 5th and the Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass with a 21incher. He took home $700 today! Swisssshhhhhhhaaaaaa

In 6th, John Ladd found his way back to the podium with 68in worth $270.

Chris G, no Facebook having behind, takes 7th with 67.25 worth $245.

Another, the third, Mountain Boy, Matthew Boone takes 8th with 67, worth $200.

Greg Donlin gets back to his hammer self and snatches 9th with 66.75 for $165.

Hambone Graham Reay finishes the top 10 with 66.5 for $130.

Tyler Smith is rollin in 2020. 11th place with 65.75 for $100.

Our bubble boy Chase Helms gets 12th and a free entry into the May 30th event on Lake Hartwell presented by AirOne Heating and Air.

Jay Park takes down the Yak Bass’n small bass pot with a 7.5 inch monster worth $245.

Thank you to our amazing QCKBF sponsors for making everything we do possible.

We have the Bracket event live. This could be a lot of fun. Get signed up. Ask questions if you have them.

Hartwell on the 30th. The event is live on TourneyX.com.

#QCvsCorona

The full recap starts at 7min mark.
We had 100 anglers on Lake Hickory today for the 4th trail event of season 6. The bite was tough. We only had 20 limits, and 44 skunks out of 100 anglers. We only weighed in 136 fish today.

Nick Huddleston takes it home with 71.5 worth $1250
Chris Goodwin 2nd with 71in worth $765
Ronnie Murphy 3rd with 69.5in worth $645
Matt Hawj 4th with 68.5in worth $485
Saturday Mel 5th with 66.25in worth $355
Greg Donlin 6th with 64.25in worth $265
Tim Sabella 7th with 64.25in worth $220
PC Hawj 8th with 64in worth$190
Ryan Breneman 9th with 63.75in worth $140
Tyler Smith 10th with 63in worth $100
Jason Haggins 11th with 62.75 worth Event 5 Free Entry.

Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass award goes home with Ab Vang with a 20.25 inch monster, and a tiebreak worth $355

The Yak Bass’n Small Bass goes home with Joe Parkulo with a 6.75in worth $235.

Congrats to all of the winners!!!

Event 5 is scheduled for Mountain Island Lake on May 2nd. We will plan on fishing and keep an eye on the situation with Corona.

Thank you to all of our sponsors, and thank you to you all for making QCKBF what it is. I miss you all!
#QCvsCorona

Its been in the works for almost a year. A huge event with the National Hobie BOS – Bass Open Series partnered up with Queen City Kayak Bass Fishing. AJ Mcwhorter and myself planned, talked, planned, talked more. Guessed at numbers. Guessed at winning limits. Etc Etc. All the things it takes to make these things run smoothly. Its a lot of prep work behind the scenes, a lot of give and take, a lot of understanding, patience, friendships, conversations, explaining things, but when you are working with the Gold Standard in directors, it all comes easy.

This weekend was simply amazing. It was huge for our city, our club, YOU the angler and I would like to think it was great for Hobie and Hobie anglers as well. We had the QCKBF Event 3 on Lake Norman this weekend. Denver Tackle Co. was amazing, staying open late, and helping guys with all their tackle needs. I had no idea what to expect as far as number of anglers in either side. The big goal was 200 each, but in the real world I just wanted to beat the first #QC1000 event of 96 anglers. Well, the final payment came in at 9:59pm Friday night and it put us at 132 anglers!!! I couldn’t believe it. Having big events is great, but it requires that much more to make things go perfectly. Mary Ferreri judged this weekend all by herself. I have no idea how she did it. We had 597 fish submitted on the QCKBF side. Let me type that again. 597! She did amazing and you should all thank her for what she does for us. With this club getting as large as we have, we are currently averaging 102 anglers a month (I know its double dip skewed), I have come to a decision. I am going to step away from fishing QC at this time. It may not be a forever thing, hell I may wake up and regret it, but, at this time, I have a more important job as director. I cant be the best fisherman, and the best director at the same time. My head is not in it as a fisherman. My phone never stops. I got 5 messages by 7:30 am yesterday, and I was on the water. Literally no way I can fish to the level I am used to fishing at when I have so much on my TD plate. I am going to be your director for the remainder of the season. I will be judging, available for phone calls, or texts, and anything else that may come up on game-day. I hope to have my full team of Mary and Brad Cox with me, along with Ryan Hulsey handling the computer stuff. Give Ryan a day or two to get the standings updated and posted.

With that out of the way lets talk about the event. The weather this weekend ended up being nice. Warm, not windy at all and no rain on Saturday. With public access allowed, anglers were spread out all over the huge Lake Norman. I know of anglers who fished to the northern boundary, and some at the southern most ramp. Lake Norman had it all this weekend. Mud, stain, crystal clear, along with Pre spawn and full on bed fishing. Whatever you like to do, you could have found it.

We were lucky enough to have our weigh in at the GoPro Motorplex in Mooresville, North Carolina. When I sat down to verify standings, I couldn’t believe how many fish were caught, and how many limits we had, and how many 70+ inch bags we had. We always call 70 the magic number, but Norman said NO NO NO. we had 77 limits…..wow!!! We also had 6 bags over 70 inches, including a tie at the top with 72.75.

At the end of the day, we had record payouts, and Marcus Smith was the man!! He went home with $2000 which included his Emerald School of Excellence Big Bass Prize for his 21.5in giant. Congrats!!!! 2k!! WOW.

Melvin Yang smoked the bass all weekend. He tied for first in QC and lost due to a tie break. He took home second place in QC and in Hobie!!! He won $870 from QC. Chris Grant rounded out the top 3 with a 72 inch bag worth $750. His best friend Tyler Smith right there with him with 71.5 in 4th for $590. Landing in 5th was a new guy, Cameron Saxon with a 70.5inch limit, going home with $460.

6th- Mark Wilkins $375

7th- Matt Hawj $325

8th- Trent Davis $300

9th- PC Hawj $215

10th- Joey Randall $200

11th- John Ladd$170

12th- Cody Harris$130

13th- Kristine Fischer$100

14th- Nick Huddleston Free entry into Hickory.

Chase Helms took home $345 for his Yak Bass’n small bass prize with a 7.5 incher. Congrats kid!

I would like to give a huge shout out to all of the anglers who double dipped this weekend. On my quick count we had almost 50 anglers in the Hobie side. We also had our guys take home some money!! Joey Randall, Nick Huddleston, Mark Wilkins all took home Hobie checks!!

Our next event, assuming we have no gathering shut downs from the government is April 5th, on Lake Hickory. ITS A SUNDAY.

Go give all of the QC sponsor pages some likes.

Line Out Custom Tackle LOCT, TrueSouth Custom Lures, YakAttack, Robohawk, Helms Apiary, Bizz Baits, 412 Bait Co, Scared Fishless Tackle Company, Salt Life, Shane’s Baits, Denver Tackle Co.. That raffle table was loaded!!

Thank you all.

Commish.