About Us
Not Just Another Tackle Shop
Fishing tackle is our passion, but Fish Heads provides our friends with much more than the expected Bait-&-Tackle shop experience. The Fish Heads brick-&-mortar store is located on the grounds of Sailfish Marina in Stuart, FL, and while arguably the best stocked saltwater tackle store you will experience, Fish Heads also offers a wide range of boating and marine supplies, snacks and drinks, and a pretty decent beer selection.
Fish Heads has become a gathering spot for friends to share fishing stories. Fish Heads has become the starting point for fishing trips. Fish Heads has become a place to grab a snack and drink before watching the charter boats tie up and clean their catch. Fish Heads has become a place to crack open a cold beer after a long day spent on the water. Fish Heads has become the place… and nothing makes us happier than hearing our friends tell others to “meet me at Fish Heads.”
For Fish Heads, our Mission is simple… connect our friends with our shared passions.
Meet the Fish Heads Family
Heather Kane. Owner. A behind the scenes leader, visionary, and Momma Bear for the Fish Heads family. Heather is Regional Director of Operations for Licensed Stores at Starbucks, and as a fifteen year partner with them she exemplifies dedication, commitment, and team building. She is a self-driven leader who motivates and encourages all those around her to achieve their personal best. Unafraid of taking a stand and willing to go against the crowd to achieve results, while standing up for what is right… Heather is best described as a Servant Leader in the humblest of definitions. While not active in the day-to-day operations at Fish Heads, Heather’s vision, leadership, and commitment to connecting our friends with our shared passion resonates throughout the Fish Heads family.
Heather spent her formative years in the Florida Keys, moving to Stuart, FL with her family towards the end of elementary school. Fishing and boating were an integral part of her upbringing, and she still enjoys spending time on the water bottom-fishing for Snapper and trolling for Dolphin.
Brent Kane. General Manager. Responsible for the day-to-day management, oversight and direction of Fish Heads. Outside of a six-month stint right after college, Brent’s professional career has been solely focused around fishing tackle. Looking for a summer job while in college, Brent found a tackle store on Long Beach Island, NJ that was hiring. Little did he, or the owner of that tackle shop know that this summer job would change Brent’s life and professional focus. After three summers and far too many hours each week working at the tackle shop while still in school, Brent graduated college and made the “grown-up” decision to work in his “field”. Six months later, Brent called the tackle shop owner and asked him to make room for him as a full-time employee. He found his calling and knew the tackle shop was his new home.
Fast forward eight years, Brent had an opportunity to join the new owners and management team at Penn Reels trying to rebuild the brand. Long story short, Penn was successfully rebuilt and the company sold… twice in six months. Brent jumped ship and took a leadership role with Big Rock Sports, an outdoor sporting goods distributor servicing independent stores across the country. Brent stayed with Big Rock for five years in various roles, traveling across the country building relationships with the owners and employees of tackle shops and tackle manufacturers.
Brent and Heather were introduced by a mutual friend while attending a Big Rock Sports Dealer show and quickly became inseparable. Brent and Big Rock Sports parted ways later that year, but his passion and focus brought him full circle, back to a tackle shop… now with the love of his life and their blended family of four kids and two Labradoodles.
On the fishing side of things, Brent has fished extensively throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, and courtesy of his time at Penn and Big Rock, has had opportunities to fish from Alaska down through So. Cal, Texas coastal waters, the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Mexico, and let’s not forget Florida and the Bahamas. If hard-pressed to pick one fishery, Brent’s passion is targeting pelagic species… the screaming drag and adrenaline rush of a large tuna or billfish pulling off a couple hundred yards of line is tough to beat.