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FAQ’s: KBF TRAIL & PRO SERIES

FAQ’s: KBF TRAIL & PRO SERIES

by Amanda Brannon | Feb 12, 2022 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, KBF Tournament News, Tips

Looking to fish a KBF Trail or Pro Series?  Below are a list of FAQ’s and upcoming tournaments. 

Introducing Automated KBF AOY Standings

Introducing Automated KBF AOY Standings

by Henry Veggian | Feb 2, 2022 | Chad's Blog, Industry News, KBF Blog Post, Tips

Introducing fully automated points standings for all KBF tournament series AOY leaderboards….

Getting Started with the Tactacam Fish-i

Getting Started with the Tactacam Fish-i

by Henry Veggian | May 29, 2021 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, Tips

KBF writer/editor Henry Veggian has written a useful instructional article for anglers who are considering or learning the Tacatcam Fish-i camera. The article pairs text with embedded video to help anglers put it all together and make the best videos of their catches!...

Jason Gardner: On Losing and Learning in Kayak Fishing

Jason Gardner: On Losing and Learning in Kayak Fishing

by Henry Veggian | Mar 23, 2021 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, Tips, Uncategorized

The lake will let you know if you’re on the right track, in the right area, and if you’re going to be successful, you just have to be willing to listen.

Kayak Fishing Competitions: How To Get Started

Kayak Fishing Competitions: How To Get Started

by Chad Hoover | Mar 17, 2021 | Tips, Uncategorized

Kayak Fishing COMPETITION: How To Get Started Recently, I wrote an article about Getting Started Kayak Fishing. Obviously, you must start kayak fishing before you can compete in a kayak fishing competition. Aside from the obvious, it gets a little overwhelming (and...

How To Paddle a Fishing Kayak (Sit-On-Top)

How To Paddle a Fishing Kayak (Sit-On-Top)

by Chad Hoover | Mar 16, 2021 | Chad's Blog, Kayak Fishing How-To, KBF Blog Post, Tips, Uncategorized

How To Paddle a Sit On Top Fishing Kayak Paddling a fishing kayak is becoming something that less and less people seem to be doing with the popularity of pedal driven and motorized kayaks. That said, the ability to paddle should be the foundation of any kayak anglers...

How To Launch a Fishing Kayak

How To Launch a Fishing Kayak

by Chad Hoover | Mar 14, 2021 | Chad's Blog, Kayak Fishing - Getting Started, Kayak Fishing How-To, KBF Blog Post, Tips

Launching a Fishing Kayak The first step in any kayak fishing trip (after setup and rigging) is the launch. I realize that launching a kayak seems like something that is straight forward. That said, there are a few adjustments that you can make to launch your fishing...

Fishing Chaos: Tips & Tricks

Fishing Chaos: Tips & Tricks

by Henry Veggian | Feb 26, 2021 | Chad's Blog, KBF Blog Post, Tips

Since 2020 thousands of KBF anglers have used the system in hundreds of events.

Getting Started Kayak Fishing

Getting Started Kayak Fishing

by Chad Hoover | Feb 23, 2021 | Chad's Blog, Kayak Fishing - Getting Started, Tips

Getting Started Kayak Fishing Welcome to Kayak Bass Fishing. If you are reading this article, you are at least interested in kayak fishing. KBF represents the largest kayak fishing community in the world and our goal is to serve the community to the best of our...

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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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