1st Annual Salmon for Soldiers Fishing Event

[Ripper]

Welcome Robbo, I am proud to be a part of this event and I look forward to meeting you as well. I'm still trying to get some more Boeing guy's involved.

[Fish4Fun]

Another welcome to Robbo,    glad you guys are involved it will sure make getting the event more exposure.
I believe we have met before, didn't you come down to the last Seahawks Fish & Feast event a couple years ago ?
I was there with the inboard FISH 4 FUN sled too.

[Salmon Dreams]

Hi All
Just a note to say that there is room for one more boat that could guide around a medic and photographer. You would still be able to get some fishing in if you wanted to.
I have 42 confirmed registrations for boats in hand with 7 more on the way.........If we receive one more willing to escort around a medic and a photographer, then all others wanting to participate may have to be placed on a waiting list in the event someone had to drop out.
Thanks so much for all the support!   

[robodad]

Just curious how many soldiers are signed up ?

[Fish4Fun]

Randy, sounds like the whole thing is on schedule to offer the Soldiers a great day with plenty of boats to host them.   

[Salmon Dreams]

All.......I do think that we are well on track for the event. I really thought we would be well into summer before the boat numbers were reached. The outpouring of support has been incredible! We have several professional guides that will be participating. 
We have 77 veterans so far. That number will certainly grow to 100 plus. I expect that will happen late June or early July. There is so much flux in their schedules for a number of reasons. I just signed up 1 more with a caregiver today out of JBLM Warrior Transition Battalion.
We also have several Sponsor Reps that will be out with us. Lamiglas and Daiwa for sure. Some others to follow I expect.
Take care
Randy

[cohoho]

Right on Randy, keep driving, keep driving...  We'll get there....

[Robbo]

Yes we did meet at the Seahawks kids fishing event at the VMAC a few years back. Nice to see you on here Fish4Fun. It's pretty special that you donate your time and boat for these events. That's' pretty darned cool man. This Salmon for Soldiers deal is going to be awesome and Randy and Penny are doing such a great job of organizing the whole dealio. Good stuff!   

[Ripper]

I can't wait, this is going to be an awesome event!

[Salmon Dreams]

We are officially at 50 boats! If there are others who wish to participate, I can put them on a waiting list........Thanks so much for your participation! See you on the water...
 

[whack em]

We are officially at 50 boats! If there are others who wish to participate, I can put them on a waiting list........Thanks so much for your participation! See you on the water...
 

That's great news!  We're looking forward to this for sure!

[Ripper]

A guy I work with has a 32 foot center console boat. He wants to help out as a medic/photographer boat if we still need one.

[Salmon Dreams]

I currently have the two medics, 2 photographers and videographer assigned to boats. I would love to have him in reserve though....Let me know if
that works for him.
Randy
 

[Ripper]

I gave him the info and he will be getting ahold of you today. His boat is perfect for this type of thing. He could probably fit a 10 man camera crew on the deck of this boat. The deck is 10 feet wide!

[brianmtsinc]

Hi Randy,
How are we doing on the number of soldiers compared to the number of boats? 

I have a Wounded Warrior that works for me in Florida, and was thinking about flying him up here for  this event.  He served our country with honor and I would love to do this for him.  But if you don't have enough boats yet I don't want to bring this up to him yet.

Let me know and if it can work, I will work on getting him tickets for a flight up to the great northwest!

Thanks!
Brian