A short trip east from downtown Fort Myers at the end of Tarpon Street off Edgewood Avenue is the Tarpon Street Pier. The wooden pier extends over a shallow portion of the Caloosahatchee River and gives anglers access to the deeper water of the river channel where they can participate in an age-old method of Florida fishing, cast-netting for mullet. The brackish water in the river is home to many species of fish, among them snapper, sheepshead, snook and spotted sea trout.