Club Profile
 
 

    The Martin County Anglers Club (MCAC), was organized in the late 1970’s and is a local group of over 100 fishermen and women interested in the education and improvement of the marine and estuarine ecosystem. Our main goal is to enhance your fishing experience while creating an atmosphere of fun and fellowship. With monthly meetings, workshops and charity fund raisers, the group is actively involved in the community. Those new to the area or those who have been in the area and want to learn to fish the local waters, are encouraged to join Martin County Anglers Club. By joining you will help give back to the sport we all enjoy.

 During monthly meetings, we bring in local guides, experts, manufactures representatives, how to clinics and even the occasional social events. Other benefits to being a club member include access to our “Captain & Crew” list to help in finding more fishing buddies.

The members of the Martin County Anglers Club are dedicated to contributing to the community, having a good time, teaching and giving back to the sport. We will teach you some of our secrets and techniques of how to fish, but don’t ever ask for our fishing hole numbers, because you are likely to get an answer like I over heard one day, “I would rather give up my trophy wife then my fishing numbers!”

 

Here are a few of the accomplishments and activities the group is involved with.

In 2004 with the help of the fishing and business community, the Martin County Angler’s Club was a driving force in helping to raise over $40,000. In Addition with a very generous contribution by Karl Wickstrom, the money raised was used to create an artificial reef with the sinking of a 163-foot ship in 180 feet of water off Martin County. This was the first ship sunk in Martin County waters since the Rankin in 1988.

The Martin County Anglers Club has continued to aid in the building of the artificial reefs in the waters off Martin County by starting the MCAC Reef Fund. This group actively works within the community, as well as at the state level to procure money to continue the artificial reef program. The Club feels the continuation of the artificial reef program is essential to healthy fish stocks in our local waters.

 The Treasure Coast estuarine and marine environment is presently subject to major freshwater discharges and pollution from Lake Okeechobee. The River Coalition, a group of interested parties, has started to take legal action to halt the unwanted water discharges from the Lake. They held a fundraiser on Feb 26th, 2006 and collected over $30,000. We will all need to help to win this fight and our Club is trying to help by raising money for this as well as continuing the reef program. Your help is needed to improve our marine and estuarine ecosystem.

  

 

Officers of the Club

President : Curt Croteau

Vice President : Jim Weix

Secretary : Open

Treasurer : Neal Rieken

Membership Committee Chairmen : Carol Burke

Directors : George Federko, Larry Hall, John Burke

 

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