Where: Soldier Creek Marina, Soldier Creek Recreation Area, Strawberry Reservoir
Entry fees will be waived for volunteers. Tell the gate attendant you are part of the Utah DAV event. You will receive a card at registration to display on your dash to signify you are an event volunteer.
**When: **Saturday, July 30th 07:00 – 15:00
We will start boater registration and launching boats at 06:00 at the boat ramp.
Each boat will be assigned and given a number to display.- All boats will be launched and lined up on the water prior to loading vets.- Coffee, hot chocolate and donuts will be provided.
Veterans will arrive at 07:00 and begin registration and loading boats.
Boat loading will occur 1 boat at a time in single file from the end of the dock.- Boaters will move into the dock as they are called in numerical order, single file to pick up their veteran.
Boaters are free to head out fishing as soon as they have their assigned veteran on board.- 13:00 Lunch will be served- 13:45 – 14:15 Guest speakers- 14:15 – 15:00 Raffle and closing ceremony.
**What do you need: **
**Uniform – **Would like to request all active duty military to please wear working uniform, not required though.- **Folding chairs- **we have limited available seating for the BBQ so please bring any folding chairs you may have.
**Fishing gear - **Each veteran will receive a new rod/reel combo but not much else. Some veterans will have their own fishing gear, some will not.
We will have a sheet explaining the Strawberry regulations provided to each veteran.- Boaters should have a fish measuring device to comply with regulations
Safety Equipment – you will need to provide a life jacket for your guest fisherman. Would like each boat to have a marine band radio or hand held multi channel walkie-talkie type radio if possible. We may have some loaners for those who might not have one.
Please contact Trevor Earl to volunteer or Todd Hall with any questions:
Trevor Earl, Team Leader Utah Disabled Veterans Fishing Foundation
BFT friends. I really appreciate you all supporting this event each year. What Trevor really needs from this thread is a reply or PM with your boat type, length, and the max number of vets you could take out. If you are volunteering for that please send him that info.
Thank you all again for your great support for this event.
I am a disabled vet but would be happy to attend with my boat and carry a couple other vets around for the day…problem is I don’t fish the berry…I’ll PM Trevor to get on the list…
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Where: Soldier Creek Marina, Soldier Creek Recreation Area, Strawberry Reservoir
I don’t fish strawberry very often but this is a great event for these people that have gave so much for all of us I do have a boat but I was wondering where would we be launching at would it be strawberry bay marina [fishon]
BFT Team,
we really need your help here. I just got off the phone with the VA and they have 90 vets signed up for this year’s event. Looking at the spread sheet here we’ve barely got enough boats for half of that.
Please if there is any way you can get up to Strawberry on July 30th to help us out with this great and worthy event we would really appreciate your help!!!
