Ocean County has been the site of many hunting clubs from Sportsmen’s Hotels on the Barrier Islands to duck hunting shacks on the meadows of Barnegat Bay and various Deer Hunting Clubs in the Pinelands. The following list is a work in progress and we would appreciate input on names, dates, locations and notable guides associated with each club including clubs that we have left out at this point.
Club Name | Type | Years | Location |
"Concrete Box" | Duck Hunting | c. 1915 | between Goose Bar and Barrel Island, NJ |
"Cream Puff Castle" Gun Club | Duck Hunting | at least 1943-1957 | Flat Creek meadows |
Barnegat Rod and Gunning Club | Duck Hunting | | Barnegat |
Bay Ridge Gunning House | Duck Hunting | early-1900s | Barnegat |
Bayside Inn (Margo's) | Duck Hunting | | Manahawkin, NJ |
Beck's Farm | Duck Hunting | at least 1915 | |
Big Creek/Star Shanty | | | |
Bonnet Gun Club ("The Duck Inn" or "Martin's Box") | Duck Hunting | c. 1886 - at least 1950s | Bonnet Island, North of the Causeway, LBI, NJ |
Bonnet Gunning Association (Mansion Cove Gunning Club) | Duck Hunting | Bonnet Gunning Association incorporated 1889 | Surf City, NJ |
Bonnet Gunning Club | Duck Hunting Club | 1921 | Cedar Bonnet Island, Manahawkin, NJ |
Cape Horn/Bob Suralik | | | |
Carvel Island Gun Club (Surf City Gun Club) | Duck Hunting | formed 1927 | Surf City, NJ |
Chadwick House | Duck Hunting | at least 1875 | Chadwick Beach, NJ |
Channel Cove Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | West Creek, NJ |
Clam Island Gunning Club | Duck Hunting | 1916 | Barnegat Bay, NJ |
Corinthian Yacht and Gun Club (formerly Beach Haven Gun Club) | Duck Hunting | 1904-c. 1984 | Marine Street and Beach Avenue, Beach Haven, NJ |
Crab Island | | | |
Daniel Island/Jay Parker's Houseboat | Duck Hunting | | |
Dinner Point Gun Club | Duck Hunting | at least 1975-1985 | Great Bay |
Dog Island | | | |
Drag Sedge Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | |
Eagle Bay | | | |
Egg Island | | | |
Elder Point | | | |
Fish Factory | | | |
Flat Creek Gun Club ("Hilton") | Duck Hunting | | |
Fresh Creek Gun Club | Duck Hunting | at least 1973 | |
Go Through Creek (Jack Webb's Gun Club, Ray Kennedy Houseboat, Rodger West Houseboat) | Duck Hunting | | West of Marshelder Point, last bridge - left side, NJ |
Goose Cove/Mullica River | | | |
Grassy Bay | | | |
Gunning River Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | Barnegat |
Half Moon/Wading River | | | |
Happy Days Gunning Club | Duck Hunting | c. 1920 | Rt. 72 Causeway, Long Beach Island, NJ |
Harvey Sedges Islands Assocation, Inc. | Duck Hunting | incorporated 1930s | Barnegat Bay |
Hester Sedge Gun Club | | 1926 | Hither Island, Ocean County, NJ |
Hester Sedge Gun Club | Duck Hunting | incorporated 1920s | Great Bay, NJ |
High Bar Fishing and Gunning Club | Duck Hunting | 1916 | High Bar Sedge Islands and Sheepshead Shoal |
Hither Island Gun Club | Duck Hunting | c. 1890 | |
Hoffman Point | | | |
Island Beach (Reed Hotel or Haring Hotel) | Duck Hunting | mid-1800s | Nine Mile or Island Beach, Below Ortley Beach |
Italian American Sportsman Club now known as The American Sportsmen Club of New Jersey | Deer Hunting | 1935 | 200 Route 539, Whiting, NJ |
Little Beach | | | |
Little Beach Club | Duck Hunting | at least 1920s-1990 | off of Barnegat Inlet on Little Beach meadows |
Little Crooked Thorofare | | | |
Little Island Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | off of Beach Haven, NJ |
Log Creek Pond (Herchel "Skinny" Abbott Gun Club or Cy Cranmer's Cabin) | Duck Hunting | | |
Long Point/Breezy Inn | Duck Hunting | early-1900s- January 20, 1921 | Long Point at Parker's Run, Parkertown, NJ |
Main Point Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | Manahawkin, NJ |
Main Point Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | |
Marshelder Island Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | |
Middle Island Gun Club | Duck Hunting | early-1900s- c. 1990s | Great Bay, NJ |
Mill Creek Gun Club | Duck Hunting | at least 1952 | Manahawkin, NJ |
Peahala Gun Club | Duck Hunting | c. 1860-June 7, 1940 | Peahala Park, one mile south of Brant Beach, NJ |
Pettit Point Gun Club (Bill Oilder Gun Club) | Duck Hunting | | Petttit Point, NJ |
Sandy Island Gun Club | Duck Hunting | incorporated 1922-rebuilt after Febraury 9, 1994 fire | |
Sedge Island Gunning Club | Duck Hunting | c. 1902 | Great Sedge Islands, Island Beach State Park |
Seven Island Gun Club | | | |
Sheepshead Creek | Duck Hunting | | Tuckerton, NJ |
Shelter Island (Johnny Cranmer & Harvey Parker's Houseboat) | Duck Hunting | early-1900s | Shelter Island, Little Egg Harbor, NJ |
Story Island Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | |
Turtle Cove Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | South Shore of Turtle Cove, North of Causeway Bridge to LBI, Stafford Township, NJ |
Turtle Cove Gunning Club | Duck Hunting | 1942 | Turtle Cove, Manahawkin, NJ |
Turtle Creek Gun Club | Duck Hunting | | Barnegat, NJ |
Uncle Jakey's Tavern | Duck Hunting | 1811 | Mantoloking, NJ |
Uncle Tommy Cook's | Duck Hunting | 1872 | Point Pleasant, NJ |
Wally Chapman Club House | Duck Hunting | | North Shore of Turtle Cove, NJ |
Waretown Rod and Gun Club | | | Waretown, NJ |
Whale Bone Gun Club (off shoot of Clam Island Gun Club) | Duck Hunting | | |
Woods Island Gun Club ("The Bungalow") | Duck Hunting | 1903-destroyed by fire 1932 | Woods Island, Harvey Cedars, NJ |