Expedition Leader,
Adam Marton
Our goal is to help teach you how to become a world class tarpon fly fisher person. We run daily skills building workshops and offer on the water instruction that we know will teach you more about the sport in one week than you could learn in ten years of standing on the bow of a flats skiff on a traditional charter.
We help lay the building blocks for a lifetime of fly rodding for tarpon!
2025 Cuba Tarpon Tagging Expeditions
2017 Fieldworkers Club Cuba Tarpon Tagging Expedition Team
March 22-29 & May 10-17, 2025
We have the science, now we need more anglers.
Jardines de la Reina is a spectacular place
Gardens of the Queen - Cuba
To learn more or reserve your spot, please complete the information below.
A critical partnership between anglers and scientists. We lead scientific fly fishing expeditions with a mission.
2025 Cuba Tarpon Tagging Expeditions
Make no mistake, these are no cruise ships, parked 50-miles off shore these custom built Cuban casas and offer salt water fly fishing junkies immediate access to some of the finest flats on the planet. Spacious comfortable accommodations and room to spread out, air conditioning, private baths and amazing Caribean food with flair.
We are headed to Gardens of The Queen (Jardines de la Renia) to use our expert fly fish skills to help pave the way to a brighter future for the Silver King.
HOW-TO Workshops
There are exactly 16 spots on each of our prime tarpon season 2025 expeditions. We will work in partnership with The University of Miami to advance the science of global tarpon research while in the act of fishing in this pristine Cuban fishery. The expeditions will by led by Adam Marton with the scientific focus on conventional tagging. There will be 5 1/2 guided fishing days and 6 nights. The Cuban guides are world class and totally up to speed with contemporary fly fishing techniques.
Join us in 2025 in southeast Cuba for the Cuba Tarpon Tagging Expedition. This is not just a fishing trip, it’s an expedition. Year 12 of a multi-year partnership between tarpon anglers and the scientists of the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. The scientific goal is to place conventional tags on tarpon that live in these Cuban waters. Doing this should put us one step closer to learning how to ensure the success of the tarpon we hope to see for years to come. Accomplishing the goal will not be easy, it requires an active partnership between world class anglers and world class scientists.
The Fieldworkers Club
5985 Trail End Road, Three Oaks, Michigan 49128
312-440-1200 adam@fieldworkersclub.com
The 2025 Cuba Tarpon Tagging Expeditions are an ongoing partnership effort in its 12th year between anglers and scientists. There are many other Cuba fly fishing trips out there, we are not for everyone. Nowhere else however will you find an opportunity to become a member of the expedition team that leads the charge to advance global tarpon science. Members of the Fieldworkers Club are anglers from all over the world who care deeply about stewarding the resource and dig in to do what they can to help pave the way to a sparkling future for the Silver King.
NOT JUST A FISHING TRIP, AN EXPEDITION WITH A MISSION
312-440-1200 --- adam@fieldworkersclub.com
Expedition Leader,
Dr. Jerry Ault
The 2025 Cuba Tarpon Tagging Expeditions will take place March 22-29 & May 10-17, 2025 in the Cuban archipelago of Jardines de la Reina (Garden of the Queens). There will be 5 & 1/2 guided fishing days and tarpon fishing workshops. Participants should expect to come home from this expedition with the knowledge they were part of a team doing everything it can to advance tarpon research in Cuba. Plan on learning about tarpon and tarpon fishing from some of the most passionate tarpon anglers in the world. We can’t wait to share what we know and look forward to enhancing your tarpon fishing for the rest of your life.
Expedition fees include lodging, guided fishing, meals/soft drinks, exclusive expedition workshops & activities, an expedition shirt, a donation to the University of Miami and all of the other benefits of the Avalon Cuban Fishing Centers. Avalon is world famous for great reasons and in every way a wonderful headquarters for the expedition.
To learn more or reserve your spot please contact;
Adam Marton -- The Fieldworkers Club,
5985 Trail End Road , Three Oaks, MI 49128
312-440-1200/office, 312-213-2324/mobile
adam@fieldworkersclub.com
The Cuba Tarpon Tagging Expedition is an effort of The Fieldworkers Club, an organization that leads scientific fly fishing expeditions with a mission.
We provide a critical partnerships between anglers and scientists.
Cuban Motherships
A Cuban marine park nearly the size of the entire Florida Keys, established in 1986 with zero development and limited to only 25 skiffs a week. It's hard to get your head around all of this, but it's true. Beyond the outfitter and a few other lobster fishing or ranger's boats you will not see another vessel. This area is by far one of the most sea life abundant, pristine and undeveloped spots on planet earth. It is the highly limited utilization and restriction of activities that makes this place so pure. Just for a moment, compare all this to the Florida Keys, Yucatan, Belize or places in the Bahamas where 100s of boats depart daily to fish, booze cruise, SCUBA, sunset sail, snorkel and jet ski. That should give you some interesting data to consider. Environmental integrity is foremost in the Garden of the Queens. Uniquely the very essence of the health and purity of the park has been given the highest priority. It enjoys it's protection through it's utilization plan, not the reverse. The key is the limited utilization and for anglers seeking a spot, waiting 12-24 months is the norm. There simply is very limited capacity. Now is the time to reserve your spot on this years tarpon tagging expedition.