Jay Joiner Captains Award
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The Belt Buckle is an island tradition that has been around since Captain Jay Joiner died in October of 1992, when he was just 25 years old. He was the first captain to win back-to-back major tarpon tournaments (the 1990 Boca Grande Club Invitational Tarpon Tournament and the 1991 Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce “World’s Richest” Tarpon Tournament) two years in a row.
The first Jay Joiner Memorial Belt Buckle was given out the year after he passed away, in 1993. The Buckle is engraved with an eagle – which represents the best fisherman nature has to offer – and a ruby, Jay’s birthstone.
For many years it was the captain who won the World’s Richest who won the Buckle.
In 2018 the format to award the belt buckle changed. The late Cappy Joiner, Jay Joiner’s uncle, who was the president of the BGFGA until his death in 2019, changed the winner of the belt buckle to the captain with the most tarpon released in each year's qualifying tournaments, in a regular season.
Past Winners:
2020 - Capt. Charlie Coleman
2019 - Capt. Lamar Joiner, Jr.
2018 - Capt. Waylon Mills
2017 - Capt. Wayne Joiner
2016 - Capt. Timmy Smith
2015 - Capt. Steve Ahlers
2014 - Capt. Frank Davis
2013 - Capt. Steve Ahlers
2012 - Capt. Willie Mills
2011 - Capt. Sandy Melvin
2010 - Capt. Waylon Mills
2009 - Capt. Sandy Melvin
2008 - Capt. Tater Spinks
2007 - Capt. Lamar Joiner, Jr.
2006 - Capt. Lamar Joiner, Jr.
2005 - Capt. Timmy Smith
2004 - No Winner
2003 - Capt. Frank Davis
2002 - Capt. Jon Zorian
2001 - Capt. Cappy Joiner
2000 - Capt. Buster Herzog
1999 - Capt. Waylon Mills
1998 - Capt. Ed Walker
1997 - Capt. Chris Klingel
1996 - Capt. Tommy Locke
1995 - Capt. Ned Van Deree
1994 - Capt. Marty Scott
1993 - Capt. Mark Futch