Adopt A Family 2022 Fundraiser (10th annual)

[Mike Cork]

2022 Ultimate Bass Adopt A Family Fundraiser Raffle

THIS IS THE BIG ONE- A couple rods, several reels and great tackle to be had.

It's time to kick off the Annual Ultimate Bass Adopt A Family Fundraiser Raffle. This is not the mini's we've been running all year, this one has the great prizes in it!!!

A quick synopsis for those that weren't part of Ultimate Bass last year. Ultimate Bass holds a raffle to raise money for a family in need each year at Christmas. Our tenth annual means so far, we've helped 11 (last year we helped two) families over the past 10 Holiday Seasons. These families typically had extreme medical bills preventing a joy filled holiday season. However, a couple of our recipients simply were families who had fallen on very hard times.

Two years ago our fundraising helped a family who's mother/wife had ocular cancer which spread severely. She was receiving treatments three states away. The drive back and forth was financially impossible on top of all the medical bills. There is much more to their story, here's a link to the video of when we presented the funds Presenting Adopt A Family to the Ivie's

Last year, with your (everyone here at Ultimate Bass) support, we raised enough money to help two families. Both families had babies in very severe danger of not surviving and your funds help them in ways we can't imagine.

Baby Cole
Baby Remington

I'm still gathering details on who we will help this year. Look to your families, churches, and neighborhoods. If you see someone that could use our help shoot me, Lee, or Lou a message and we'll take a look.

Let's get to the raffle... I always want to start in October sometimes but never do 

Ultimate Bass Adapt A Family Raffle Prizes
(There may be more prizes and will be listed in order of value)

IF YOU BUY TICKETS VIA PAY PAL or VENMO PLEASE  PUT YOUR SCREEN NAME IN THE NOTES SECTION

I haven't received all the prizes but it's shaking out like this

Grand Prize:
FDx Custom Rod

First place prize:
Dobyns Fury casting rod (Choice with $129.99)
Shimano SLX 150 casting reel
John Crews Hand Picked baits
- John Crews Polarized Sunglasses
- Spro Little John MD 50 #42 Real Perch
- Signed Spro Little John DD70 #50 Matte "woops"y Chrome
- Signed Spro Little John 50 #45 Copper Shad
- Robo Worm 6" Magic Worm Passion Shad
- Missle Baits Missle Craw Love Bug
- Missle Baits Drop Craw Oxblood Red Flake
- Missle Baits Quiver 6.5 Bluetonium Green Pumpkin Core
Monster Fishing Tackle Gift Code $50

2nd Place:
Dobyns Fury Spinning Rod (choice with $129.99 limit)
John Crews donated
- Flipping Kit
- Signed "Crews Missile" T-Shirt - Not in the store yet


3rd Place: From Fish_in_1
Striker Camo Hat signed by John Crews
Missile Baits Ned Rig Kit
Visit Missile Baits to check out contents

4th Place: From Fish_in_1
Pond Fishing Kit
Visit Missile Baits to check out contents

Monster Gift Code $50

5th Place:  From Fish_in_1

2 PK Missle Baits Baby D Stroyer Candy Grass
Missle Baits D Stroyer Green Pumpkin Flash
Missle Baits D Bomb Copper Chopper
Missle Baits Quiver 6.5 Bluetonium Green Pumpkin Core
Missle Baits Craw Father Bruiser Flash
Missle Baits The 48 Straight Black

6th Place: From Fish_in_1
Missile Baits Craw Father Blue Brusier
Missile Baits Quiver 6.5 Bluetonium Green Pumpkin Core
Missile Baits Baby D Stroyer Candy Grass
Missile Baits D Stroyer Green Pumpkin Flash
Missile Baits D Bomb Copper Chopper

7th Place:
C & R Lures Spinnerbait / Buzzbait / Chatterbait package $100
$100 in baits from Mister Twister

8th Place:
$100 bait package from bigjim5589 at J. Hester Fly & Tackle Co. LLC
In Work

9th Place:
Locket Lures
In Work

Last Place - but First Drawn
Bass Fishing Video Collection - 28 videos and 2 books (donated by OldFart)
Great Winter entertainment and training!!!
This is going to be draw first because it's a tremendous collection, it's like winning the best prize!
See the list here

Tickets are your basic Raffle Ticket. Ticket cost:

IF YOU BUY TICKETS VIA PAY PAL or VENMON PLEASE PUT YOUR SCREEN NAME IN THE NOTES SECTION

1 ticket for $5
5 tickets for $20
30 tickets for $100

I will be tracking ticket purchases like always. Many times we are not able to spend $100 at a time to get the bonus tickets. If you buy $100 worth of tickets over a series of purchases I will give you the extra tickets to equal thirty with the purchase that takes you over $100. So if you buy 5 sets of $20 that gets you 25 tickets and I will kick in the extra five tickets to make the 30.

We take all forms of money but prefer Pay Pal or Venmo. Make sure to send funds via "Friends and Family". You can mail a check (please let me know it's coming), did I say we prefer Pay Pal, and if you want to use a CC we can send you a Pay Pal invoice that you can pay without having a Pay Pal account. See the bottom of the post for further information.

I also take Venmo as of this year my email for both Venmo and PayPal is mike at ultimate bass dot com

I will message you the numbers of your tickets. You'll need to hang onto these numbers. On December 16th we will draw the winners and post the ticket numbers. We will do the drawing on Facebook Live to ensure the integrity of the raffle. (You do not have to have Facebook in order to win, winning numbers will be published on the Ultimate Bass forums) I will also write your screen name on the back of your tickets so we'll know who won what on drawing night.

The funds recipient - as mentioned we have a family in works, we are still vetting their needs through their local church. We are still accepting applications if you know a family that might need help this holiday season.


How to Pay for Tickets

Mailing Address for checks

Ultimate Bass
C/O Adopt a Family
5422 Amber Circle
Benton La 71006

Pay Pal and Venmo:
First and foremost, save everyone the fees and send funds as "Friends and Family"
Mike at Ultimate bass dot com
Please put your "SCREEN NAME" and "Adopt a Family" in the notes section.

Credit Card
Our only option here is to send you an invoice via Pay Pal, you do not have to have a Pay Pal account to pay the invoice. However, there is a 3% surcharge and since this is a fund raiser, I'll split it with you.

Disclaimer: We have to have one so here it goes. All rules of this raffle are subject to change by site administration. Ultimate Bass is not responsible for the delivery of prizes; however we will provide our best efforts to ensure winners receive their prizes in a timely manner.

[Donald Garner]

Mike tks for putting this together.  I'll be in contact soon.

[Smallie_Stalker]

PayPal #1 sent!