Northwest Salmon Derby Series grand prize boat awarded to Lynnwood angler
Oct. 7, 2019 – Trevor Everitt of Lynnwood was at home when his brother Keaton Everitt called him in the late evening hours of Sept. 22 after viewing the feed of the grand prize boat name drawing on Facebook from the Everett Coho Derby.
“My
brother told me that I had won the derby boat and I was in disbelief,” Everitt
said. “I told him I’m not getting excited until I hear from the derby folks
that I had actually won.”
Little did the Kirkland native realize, but his name had
been randomly drawn from almost 7,000 anglers following the conclusion of the
2019 Northwest Salmon Derby Series.
Mark Yuasa the director of the Northwest Salmon Derby
Series tried calling him soon after Everitt’s name was drawn that he’d won a
grand prize, fully equipped aluminum boat valued at around $75,000, but it went
directly into voicemail.
The next morning Yuasa finally got in touch with
Everitt to notify him and turned his disbelief into reality.
“(Yuasa)
told me I won the boat and then I knew it was indeed for real,” said Everitt who
entered the derby series drawing after fishing in Edmonds Coho Derby on Sept.
7.
“This was the first time I bought a ticket to the
derby and that came after my brother had convinced us to enter,” he said. “We
grew up doing all kinds of salmon fishing with our grandpa up in Bellingham,
but then high school and college got in the way and we hadn’t been fishing for
about 15 years.”
Everitt said his grandpa had passed away and left his
family a small inheritance. At the end of the 2018 fishing season they decided
to use that money to purchase a 19-foot Bayliner Trophy Boat.
“We fixed it up and this season was the first time we
got it on the water,” Everitt said. “It was a great way to hang out with my dad
(Bob Everitt) and brother and it brought our families closer together. My
brother is a total gear head fisherman and he saw a poster for the Edmonds Coho
Derby at the Edmonds Marina and talked my dad and I into entering. My brother
caught a fish but that was the only one we hooked during the derby. My brother
and I have young kids and are starting to get them out fishing. Now that we’ve
got this new boat hopefully we can also get our wives to go out as well.”
The boat is the 16th grand prize boat,
motor, and trailer package that has been given away since the Series was
created in 2004. This year’s Weldcraft 202 Hardtop boat is powered by a 200-horsepower
Yamaha and a 9.9-horsepower trolling motor, on an EZ Loader tandem axle
trailer. The boat came fully equipped with Raymarine electronics, Scotty
Downriggers, a WhoDat Tower, Burnewiin accessories and a Dual Electronics
stereo.
“It was a joy to hear how excited he was and his plans
to get their family out on the water,” said Yuasa. “This boat and motor package
are top-of-the-line and will provide Trevor quality time on the water. He plans
to get the boat out as soon as possible before the coho fishing winds down and
looks forward to winter crabbing.”
The Northwest Salmon Derby Series is a fishing
promotion program directed by the NMTA that encourages boating and fishing in
the Northwest. In 2019, the series included 14 derbies in Washington, Idaho and
British Columbia, Canada. For each derby an angler competes in, they get one
entry into the drawing for the grand prize boat held at the final derby in the
Series.
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About
the Northwest Marine Trade Association
The NMTA is the nation’s largest regional marine trade
association. It represents more than 700 companies in the recreational boating
industry, including boat dealers, boat brokers, marinas, boatyards,
manufacturers, retailers and suppliers of boating accessories and services. The
NMTA’s mission is to promote the growth of recreational boating and member
businesses. The NMTA produces the Seattle Boat Show – the West Coast’s largest
boat show – on Jan. 24-Feb. 1, and the Anacortes Boat Show on May 14-17.
Additional information is available at www.nmta.net.
Contact
Mark
Yuasa
NMTA
Director of Grow Boating Program
and
NW Fishing Derby Series
(206)
619-8868
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