Executive Committee

Brett Fitzgerald, Chairman of the Board of Directors

Brett Fitzgerald, Chairman

Texas Vice-Chair, Aaron Reed

Atlantic Vice-Chair, Mike Readling

Mike Readling was born in Jupiter, FL and grew up fishing the Loxahatchee River and Jupiter Inlet for any saltwater species he could get on the end of his line. When his family moved to Oviedo, FL during middle school, he switched his focus to freshwater fishing.
His love for fishing carried through his college years at the University of Alabama and the University of South Florida, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish, in between catching redfish and trout on the flats around Tampa Bay.
Mike was a sports writer for 15 years for some of Florida’s largest newspapers; Tampa Tribune, Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times, before he moved on to become the assistant editor at Florida Fishing Weekly, which brought him back to Jupiter.
Currently, Mike is the Director of Resource Development for Habitat for Humanity of Martin County and a part-time charter fishing guide based out of Stuart, FL. In his spare time, he freelances for the Stuart News and the rest of the Scripps Newspaper network and squeezes some fishing in whenever possible.

Maria Quasius, Secretary

Maria Quasius has been catching snook in Southwest Florida for almost 30 years. Originally from Boston that she fled to escape the cold, after raising a family of five and a decade as a golf pro, she joined the staff of Everglades Angler in Naples and began fishing in earnest. A skilled flytier and accomplished fly caster, she has earned several trophies in local tournaments. She served as an officer in the local chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association and on the board of the Naples Fishing Club and Back Country Flyfishers, where she also managed to catch her husband, Capt. Pete Quasius. They moved to Fort Myers and Maria then worked at the Orvis outfitters shop at the Hyatt resort on Estero Bay and later at Lee Island Outfitters near Sanibel.

[p]Over the years Maria helped introduce and outfit countless thousands to snook fishing. She is also a past president and member of the board of Audubon of Southwest Florida and member of the board of Eco-Voice, Inc., an environmental website.  A superb Italian cook, she watches for action on the Caloosahatchee from her kitchen windows and has been known to turn off the stove and head to the seawall with her fly rod when a snook (or school of jacks) are working the shoreline. The reason she is smiling in this photo is because after finally catching a salmon in Wisconsin she could head back to sunny Florida.

Capt. Jim Bandy, Treasurer

Capt Jim Bandy, Treasurer

Rick Roberts, Executive Director

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