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Mike Robey

Mike Robey

Mike Robey is founder and President/Chief Fishing Officer of Hooked on Hope VB, a Virginia Beach nonprofit that supports pediatric cancer families through fishing tournaments.

Jun 19, 2026

5:52
So how does that work? Where does the money go? And also tell us the connection between once the tournament happens and the funds are raised, what do you use those funds for? Because this is the part that I think is really cool.
6:06
Yeah, absolutely.
6:07
Yeah, so the tournament came about, like I said, about almost eight years ago.
6:11
Now this is their seventh one, but it came about a little bit before that from my buddies Daniel LeGrand and Joshua Warrens.
6:17
I said, hey, man, nobody's doing a kids' tournament anymore.
6:19
We should do a Spanish macro tournament.
6:22
And I think we might have been sitting in Ballyhoo's, too, because that's where we do our awards party.
8:28
If somebody was listening to this and got inspired and said, wow, that's something I really want to be a part of, even if it's just as a financial backer or an angel investor or whatever, is that something they could do as well?

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