Welcome to the Fort Myers Beach Tarpon Hunters Club

Join our club and catch

“TARPON FEVER” *

*Beware, this ailment has no known cure!

The Fort Myers Beach Tarpon Hunters Club is a family orientated, fun club with about 100 memberships; we do not take ourselves or the pursuit of the “Silver Kings” very seriously.

But we are dedicated anglers who believe in conservation; no Tarpon are ever killed, even strongly encouraging that the fish are released boat side without being taken out of the water.

Tarpon Release Our members use spinning or conventional tackle or fly and we fish the waters of Lee County. Our meetings are held at Bonita Bills Restaurant at Fort Myers Beach on the first Wednesday of each month during our Tarpon season. Newsletters are sent out eight or nine times through the year to keep club members informed as to what is going on. We have a tackle clinic in the spring, picnic in the summer and our awards banquet is held in November. We hold many different types of hunts during our season and our club schedule lists all the details.

Due to our Tarpon predecessors, our club is the oldest Tarpon fishing club in the world (see our history section). Located on the west coast of Florida we have this superb game fish right in our bays, estuaries and creeks as well as in the Gulf of Mexico. No expensive offshore boats or equipment is needed; a small but seaworthy craft is all you really need. It is even becoming popular to fish for the “Silver Kings” from a kayak. In the summer and fall months Tarpon are off the beaches of Fort Myers and Sanibel to over 150 pounds weight, in very shallow water. No matter what time of the year, to “jump” or catch such a spectacular feisty game fish will give the angler such a fight that the memory is never to be forgotten. Our club does not register Tarpon less than 50 lbs with Florida’s conventional tackle record set at 243 lbs.