Count me in. I'll be in a 240 Coastal named Ruthless. Of course I will reserve the right to back out if the springers start to come in #'s.

Just Spoke with Charlie, owner of the Sloop Tavern in Ballard. He wholeheartedly agreed to hosting us, even said he would throw in some T-Shirts and Gift certificates for prizes. Set up some lunch specials and has a scale for us to weigh with.

Kwik- A gas certificate for a prize would be well-received I am sure.

So the date time and place is set.
Fish Sunday morning from Dawn, meeting/Weigh in is at 2:30 at the Sloop tavern. I will post directions but the address is: 2830 NW Market, Seattle WA 98107....for you mapquesters... It is about a 3 minute drive from the Shilshole launch.


Speaking of the Shilshole launch, it is very protected and there is plenty of room for a ton of boats.
If you can easily get to the area you want to fish that day from Shilshole, I would suggest launching there because it will be easier to get to the weigh in afterwards.
Or, if L&R from Don Armeni, just drive up to Ballard.

OK all, off to find some sponsors. Give me a hand if you can!

Sky-guy, sound like a blast! Thanks for the hard work. We'll see what we can do for sponsors.

Looks like fun, count me in!! - I'll be bringin the winning fish over from Eagle Harbor

I am trying to get my crew together. I do have a question. How many 55 foot long 8 foot wide drive thru slots to they have at this tavern. Will parking be a problem for those of us with bigger boats.

There is alot of street parking out front and down the road & 1 block west out in front of the old Hirams Restaurant. For those of you who will pull their boat out and go to the Tavern I dont think Parking will be a terrible problem. You may have to walk a block or two, but no biggie.

Sky-Guy

I chatted with a gentleman today over at Sportco / Fife. He's going to get with his Marketing Manager to see if they will be able to sponser some gear. Sound pretty positive. I told him he could log on to PP here to get all info on the derby. I informed him that you have been putting most of the work in to it, so he may contact you through this sight. If you want you can e-mail me with any info needed to pass on to this gentleman. I told him where the weigh in is going to happen and what others are trying to do to get prizes for the derby.

Fish On,

ErnDog

Glad to see this flottila is coming together. I will be there with Gutz and maybe some others. Will post here if we have extra room. We may spend Saturday night at Shilshole dock. Anyway, here is the boat we are on. Come aboard and have a cold one with us.
-rbf

Just spoke with Bruce B of WDFW, and apparently no Derby License is needed. So it is oficially a derby, then a flotilla!!

The reasoning is that Salmon are considered a foodfish and not a game fish, so no license is required. Go figure. No complaints though!

I have some great leads on prizes after speaking with local sporting businesses. Once confirmed I will post a list, shaping up nicely though!


RatherBFishin, Good idea on launching a day early, we always do that same and stay in the guest moorgae there at Shilshole, dock W. So for some of you, that may work out better so you dont have to launch that AM. I think the cost is 15 per night.


TT you all soon.

Sky-Guy - We held a small derby (eight boats) out of Eagle Harbor this November and it was a lot of fun!!!

I'll donate a bunch of fine fishin' cigars for a prize on the upcoming derby.

Hope it doesn't blow too hard or I may have a hard time getting that winning fish across the Sound to Shilshole

Cant wait for this one Jeff head here I come.
I also may have a open seat for the derby TrailRat has to go on the Auction river trip he won.

Any age thing on this derby? Me and a buddy are gonna try out salt water for the first time actually, we're both 16 and we'll be with his dad.

sounds like fun

Curtis

Sky-Guy
Probably should have asked first since you are leading the charge, but I posted this info on the other board in the event more people might want to participate.
JMS

Update on Derby-

I have a found a few Sponsors who will provide some Gear...for starters- thanks to Dave L at Three Rivers Marine!
A couple other names will remian unmentioned until confirmed.

So dont forget about this one people... we are still full steam ahead!


If you own a business, or have any good ideas for prizes-post it. I have just about run out of options.
Alot of places have already donated through the nose this last year and cannot budget in anymore gear giveaways.
The stuff doesnt have to be fishing related. That Gas prize should be nice for a lucky winner.

Big Bad Voodoo-The Derby Prizes and social will be in a 21+ Tavern. Sorry about that.

Have a great weekend everyone.

This looks great! Don't forget Outdoor Emporium and Ted's? or maybe you allready have contacted them?

Hope to see you all then.

I am up way too late to be meeting my bud for fishing at 6:45am tomorrow(today).
But hey its my 30th today so what the hell!

Special Thanks goes out to Kent and Scott of Three Rivers for donating a GLoomis GL2 rod and several hats for the derby. This is great steelhead rod, and even greater is the courtesy extended to me by 3Rivers to donate it. Thanks Guys.

I have called both the Outdoor E and Teds to see if they would donate anything, and the general reply was that they received 5 calls-per-day from people just like me looking for support for their derbys/contests. They just dont have the resources to support all of them. Totally understandable, we will just have to be more creative for fish prizes. I have a few nice things lined up that I will list off once we get close tothe 23rd, butif you can do something for the cause that would be noble.

GL to all fishing tomorrow.

If this event is going to happen, anyone know if they'll have an open seat? I have my own gear and would be happy to help pay expenses.

Hey Sky-Guy-

Are we going to do anything to indentify ourselves or our boats, so we know who's who and such? It would be nice to know who is out there from this board before and while we are on the water.
Looking forward to this, shaping up to be a lot of fun.

Kev

Kev,

Good idea...What do you suggest?

One suggestion would be to fly an American Flag. Everyone should have one, all we would have to do is rig it somewhere on your boat if you dont already have one flying. Most small boats on the water dont fly a flag, but if they did on this day we could tell who is who.

We can also jabber on the VHF68 and get an idea of who is who and where they are.

Prize update:
GLoomis GL2 Steelhead rod and 4 hats from 3 Rivers Marine.
5 free one-year subscriptions from F&H news.
Talking to the Reel News, they may provide free subscriptions as well.
Kwik Fish- Gas Certificate for $100.00 &/or beer prizes
Chip Goodhue- Cigars
Sloop Tavern- Gift Certificates and Shirts

Fishslayer or Erndog, any word on what you were looking into?

Sky, I got shot down at the place I was working on. I'm going to talk with my boss and see if what I have in mind (not much) will be ok with him. I'l let you know!