While recently at the CKO Kayak Fishing Tournament at Lake Cumberland I met a guy that has the Thule Hullavator system on his SUV and I have to admit that after watching him load his kayak I thought to myself “man that is AWESOME”. So I thought that I would take a moment to do a product profile on this pretty cool product.
We had 17 anglers brave the 28 degree temperatures last Sat morning for Kentucky's first kayak fishing tournament. Some kayaks had a white layer of frost but that didn't slow anyone down. For most, it was their first tournament. First place in the Men's division was Brian Sloan with a total fish length of 31.875. Second was Gene Nelson with 14.25. There was only one youth, Carrie Slone and she did catch a total of 11.625". No one caught fish in the women's division so their names were drawn for first place, Melinda Stein and second to Leslie Price.
The CKO Kayak Fishing Tournament kicked off its inaugural event this past weekend at Lake Cumberland. Not only was this the first kayak fishing tournament for CKO it was also the first Kayak Fishing Tournament to ever take place here in Kentucky.
For many of the kayak angler’s participating in this event it would be their first kayak fishing tournament and or their first Catch-Photo Release style event. We were excited to see the CKO Tournament was able to introduce so many new anglers to this tournament format. We were also excited that CKO owner Susan Powell asked us to be one of the title sponsors to this event.