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Landstrom Storms to Victory in the Dee Zee KBF TENvitational

Landstrom Storms to Victory in the Dee Zee KBF TENvitational

by Hank Veggian | Jan 30, 2023 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News

The Dee Zee KBF TENvitational is a unique event: once you are qualified, you are forever invited. What that means is that any qualified KBF angler can register for the event in any year. And the event is held every year immediately prior to Dee Zee KBF the TEN. What...

Elsea and Lavoie Win the Polk County KBF Kick Off

Elsea and Lavoie Win the Polk County KBF Kick Off

by Hank Veggian | Jan 29, 2023 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News

The Realtree Fishing KBF Trail Series Powered by Dakota Lithium began in Polk County on January 28-29th with a multi-lake format that spread more than 100 KBF anglers over several lakes. With mild temperatures and incredible lodging providing by Guy Harvey’s Mack...

The Way Forward | 2023 Season Preview

The Way Forward | 2023 Season Preview

by Chad Hoover | Jan 7, 2023 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News, Uncategorized

New seasons bring new opportunity for most things in life. This season, KBF is making a major commitment to simplifying things for our members. Admittedly, we have made a habit of changing and dialing things in at a pace that could seem disorganized and chaotic. We...

KBF Announces AmBASSador Series Championship (Updated)

KBF Announces AmBASSador Series Championship (Updated)

by Hank Veggian | Jan 4, 2023 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News, Press Releases

The KBF AmBASSador Series organizations are the clubs and trails that grow kayak fishing at the grassroots level in the United States, Mexico and Canada. KBF and AmBASSador Series partners grow simultaneously through co-hosted events, shared financial and logistical...

DEE ZEE KBF THE TEN 2023: A Preview

DEE ZEE KBF THE TEN 2023: A Preview

by Hank Veggian | Jan 4, 2023 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News

The 2023 edition of Dee Zee KBF The TEN will take place in Polk County, Florida in early February. Ten elite kayak anglers qualified for the event earned their spots as the top ten finishers in the 2022 Farwide Angler of the Year standings. They will be provided with...

2023 Realtree Fishing KBF TRAIL SERIES KICKS OFF IN POLK COUNTY, FL!

2023 Realtree Fishing KBF TRAIL SERIES KICKS OFF IN POLK COUNTY, FL!

by Hank Veggian | Jan 2, 2023 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News

The Realtree Fishing KBF TRAIL Series Powered by Dakota Lithium begins on January 28th – 29th in Polk County, Florida with some big changes for the new year. First, the entire KBF Trail series has been streamlined to provide more accessible qualifying opportunities...

2023 Realtree Fishing KBF TRAIL SERIES KICKS OFF IN POLK COUNTY, FL!

DEE ZEE KBF The TENvitational 2023: A Preview

by Hank Veggian | Jan 1, 2023 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News

Your kayak is clean. The rods and reels are spotless, the lines on them fresh. Your batteries are fully charged and your hooks are sharp. Everything is waiting for the magic moment when your alarm sounds on the water and the text reads “Lines in!” Kayak Bass Fishing’s...

A Preview of the 2023 Realtree Fishing Kayak Bass Fishing Trail

A Preview of the 2023 Realtree Fishing Kayak Bass Fishing Trail

by Hank Veggian | Dec 21, 2022 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News

Every Kayak Bass Fishing season produces new memories, new challenges and new champions . 2022 also produced many new anglers. As kayak fishing pros noted in our recap of the Yak Attack KBF National Championship VII, the expanded 2022 schedule brought new faces into...

Finishing Strong: Derek Brundle, the FishUSA KBF Challenge Series Angler of the Year

Finishing Strong: Derek Brundle, the FishUSA KBF Challenge Series Angler of the Year

by Hank Veggian | Dec 17, 2022 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News

We post our best fishing moments on social media - the personal bests, the perfect day, the big limit, the wondrous encounter with nature. Why not share them? Will you ever forget the first time you won money at a local tournament? For a brief moment, you felt like...

KBF Announces AmBASSador Series Championship (Updated)

KBF Announces AmBASSador Series Championship

by Hank Veggian | Oct 26, 2022 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News, Press Releases

The KBF AmBASSador Series organizations are the clubs and trails that grow kayak fishing at the grassroots level in the United States, Mexico and Canada. KBF and AmBASSador Series partners grow simultaneously through co-hosted events, shared financial and logistical...

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Eligible Water Criteria

KBF classifies Eligible Water as fishing areas meeting four criteria: (a.) Open, that is, in-season and during access hours; (b.) within boundaries established for the competitive event; (c.) Unrestricted; equally accessible by everyone with non-discriminatory user requirements, and (d.) able to launch from an unrestricted, “equal-opportunity” public-access point.

Eligible Water

To be eligible, the body of water must satisfy all four of these conditions.

  1. It must be public-use waters, where the general public is permitted to fish by the controlling authority (e.g., state, county, municipality, business, private individual, residential development association or property management group). Water posted “KEEP OUT,” “Off Limits” or “No Fishing” by the property owner or by municipal, state or federal agencies is most likely ineligible. However, if permission to fish a body of water is granted, without prejudice or bias, to anyone who meet’s the controlling authority’s terms and conditions, then the water is considered “public use” and is, therefore, eligible. If the controlling authority for a pay-to-fish lake does not discriminate so that any member of the public may pay the user fee to fish it, that’s considered eligible water, too.
  2. It must be within the event’s competition area boundaries established for each event by the Tournament Director. That may be state boundaries, or a certain number of nautical miles up- and down-river from a fixed point, or a set radius from a fixed point, or water up to a landmark. An event may also include as eligible water any sloughs, coves, backwaters, or adjoining ponds that are contiguous to the main body of water and that can be reached by paddling and floating. Or, for another event, a Tournament Director may define eligible water to include smaller bodies of water temporarily or permanently separated from the main body by a gravel bar, swamp, levy, berm, road bed or other land form, that can be reached by dragging or portage.
  3. It must publicly accessible. Competitors may not cross restricted property to reach it but must be able to access the water from or across publicly-accessible areas or right-of-ways. If a community pond is posted and reserved for residents only so that one must trespass in order to reach it, then it is not publicly-accessible and is, therefore, ineligible. For example, if a community or homeowner’s association provides an unrestricted, public access launch area for its public-use lake, even though it’s otherwise surrounded by private property, then it’s eligible. The requirement to pay a launch fee makes no difference; if anyone may pay the launch fee and thereby gain access to the public water, then it’s publicly accessible.
  4. It must not be restricted by date or time. if a lake has posted use or access times or fishing is allowed only during certain seasons, it is considered eligible only during the dates and hours permitted by the controlling authority.

Water that does not meet those four conditions is ineligible, even if one is not physically prevented from driving to it and launching. Permission by a home-owner for a kayak angler or even a small group of them to use private lakes or ponds or cross private property does not make that water eligible.

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