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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-four years
and has been a full-time guide for the past 21 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 and
through this day holds the record as the 1st and only person to
win a double qualifying tournament in Boca Grande. He tagged more
tarpon than anyone in the world for science during the years 2005,
2006, and 2007 and has been the collective world leader in genetically
tagged tarpon in 2005, 2006, 2007,2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Number 3) Florida
fishing guide, Capt. Robert McCue is a conversationalist and steward
of Florida 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 Condervation Comission (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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