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than a brief period in college followed by serving in the United States
Marine Corps, Capt. Robert McCue has been a Florida fishing guide. In his early
years, he waited tables at night and fished during the day while
launching his career. He has continuously guided for twenty-three years
and has been a fulltime guide for the past 20 years.
Number 2)
Florida fishing guide, Capt. Robert McCue consistently competes against
the world’s best professional fishermen and these are the verified
results.
Capt. Robert McCue has successfully guided 8 certified
IGFA world records. Capt. Robert McCue has won just over $300,000 in
tournament fishing. Capt. Robert McCue (team) holds the record for the
largest, single, purse winning in any open tarpon tournament and is in
the top ten of the most winningest captains in the history of Boca
Grande tarpon fishing tournaments . Capt. Robert McCue holds the record
for the “most consecutive release” crowns in any open tarpon tournament
series. In 2007, Capt. Robert McCue won the Professional Tarpon
Tournament Series (PTTS) coveted Jim Beam Tarpon Cup. He tagged more
tarpon than anyone in the world for science during the years 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Number 3)
Florida fishing guide, Capt. Robert McCue is a conversationalist and
steward of Florida’s fishing. He believes in giving back to the resource
and protecting it for generations to come.
Capt. Robert McCue successfully contributed to
attaining gamefish status for red drum (1989), to passing the Gill Net
Limitation Constitutional Amendment (1996) and to enacting the Florida
Fish and Wildlife Commission Amendment (1998). In 2003, he successfully
lobbied for a $5,000 private donation to finance The Boca Grande Pass
Enhancement Fund. Capt. Robert McCue donates his time and resources to
the Boca Grande Enhancement Fund’s dive operations in cleaning the floor
of Boca Grande Pass. Capt. Robert McCue was the only tarpon guide to
acoustically tag tarpon in the Tarpon Catch and Release Mortality Study
in both Boca Grande and Tampa Bay (2002-2007). Capt. Robert McCue
unconditionally opened his boat to state observers in the Florida Fish
and Wildlife Commission’s (FWC) Tarpon Observation Study (2004). Capt.
Robert McCue has contributed more tarpon DNA samples than anyone in the
world to the FWC Tarpon Genetics Recapture Program (ongoing). In 2009,
Capt. Robert McCue was the first participant to reach 500-tagged tarpon
as part of this program using DNA to track tarpon. Capt. Robert McCue
has traveled to all corners of Florida to testify in front of Florida
Fish and Wildlife Commission. Capt. Robert McCue has served as a
director for Florida Guide’s Association and the Florida Conservation
Association now called the Gulf Coast Conservation Association.
Number 4)
Florida fishing guide, Capt. Robert McCue is a professional fishing
resource that is relied upon as an industry “grocery man”.
Capt. Robert McCue has had 3
features in published fishing books The Reef Fishing Book,
The Masters of Snook Book and Florida's Master Anglers.
Capt. Robert McCue has been featured in many international magazines to
include National Geographic
where his tarpon fishing made the list of the top 100 adventures in the
United States. Capt. Robert McCue has been a published outdoor columnist
and a trusted source for fishing information in several Florida
newspapers. For two decades, state and academic fishery biologists
regularly contact Capt. Robert McCue for field assistance in catching
fish for scientific study. Capt. Robert McCue is a field tester and
representative for several of the industry’s largest corporations to
include Mercury Marine, Motor Guide, Dorado Boats, Lenco Marine, Costa
del Mar® and Sign Zoo. In turn, these corporations invest tens of
thousands of dollars in Capt. Robert McCue.
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