Troll & Stow
The award-winning Troll & Stow system stows the entire trolling motor — drive unit, mounting hardware, power cords — below deck. Open a locker, raise the platform, lower the motor. Done in seconds.
Authorized Premier Dealer · SWFL
Premier Pontoons.Fort Myers, Naples& Bonita Springs.
After years of research, we partnered with the only pontoon builder engineered to live in Southwest Florida saltwater — and built to outlast everything else in the segment.
Built InBig Lake, MN
Warranty10-yr transferable
At Fish Tale Boats3 SWFL locations
Service14,000 sq-ft in-house
The Short Answer
Why we chose Premier.
Fish Tale Boats has carried boats for thirty years. We've watched pontoons go from freshwater novelties to genuine coastal performance vessels — and we've watched our customers shift right along with them.
When we went looking for the pontoon line worthy of representing Fish Tale Boats across the 5-county Southwest Florida region, we evaluated builders from across the country. We came back to Premier every time.
Premier is the most engineered pontoon on the market. They invented the modern performance tritoon, they hold the patents that define the category, and they build every boat in a 150,000-square-foot facility in Big Lake, Minnesota — by hand, with American materials, by people who treat each hull like it's their own. We're responsible for our customers' lives, families and enjoyment on the water, and after a deep review there was no better match than Premier.
PTX Performance vs. Standard Tritoon
+15%
Faster
top-end speed
+17%
Improvement
in planing speed
+17%
Better
fuel efficiency
+5%
Tighter
turning radius
Premier's proprietary PTX (Performance Tritoon Xperience) hull, measured against standard tritoon designs.
🇺🇸
Built in USA
Big Lake, MN
Since 1992
Production Line
300 ft.
Continuous. Connected. American-built.
American Craft · Established 1992
American-built. American materials.
Premier Marine was founded in 1992 by Bob Menne — a Minnesota boatbuilder who liquidated personal assets to start the company at age 50, with a single vision: take the utilitarian pontoon and turn it into a long-lasting, high-quality craft for amazing recreation experiences.
Every Premier moves down a continuous 300-foot production line designed around a single principle the company calls “Custom Comes Standard.” Floor plans, finishes, fabrics, rail colors, and feature packages are configurable down to a granular level — without dramatically extending build time.
Aluminum rails are powder coated in-house. Every boat is fully assembled, aligned, and run-up indoors. Quality assurance is embedded across the entire line, ending in a 100% final inspection.
150K
Sq-ft Facility
30+
Years Building
100%
Final Inspection
Engineering Deep-Dive · PTX Hull
The PTX Hull. The reason Premier handles like a runabout.
For decades, the pontoon industry accepted three round aluminum tubes as the theoretical ceiling of pontoon performance. Premier broke that ceiling.
Performance Tritoon Xperience — PTX — is Premier's proprietary center-tube system, available in 28″, 30″, 32″, and a class-leading 36″ diameter. The center tube isn't round. It's multi-faceted, with a wide, completely flat planing surface — up to 12 inches wide on the 36″ version — that breaks the boat free from surface tension early and gives a Premier the same instant-plane behavior as a fiberglass runabout.
The genius is in what Premier left out. Most performance tritoons add lifting strakes to all six edges of the three tubes. Premier puts strakes only on the inner edges of the two outer tubes — the rest of the lift comes from the flat-bottom geometry of the center tube. Removing the outer strakes is what lets a Premier bank inward through a turn, the way a V-hull does. It carves.
“Premier doesn't drive like a pontoon. It drives like a 30-foot runabout that happens to seat twenty people.”
— Travis at Fish Tale Boats, after a sea trial on Estero Bay
The Build · Component Level
Overbuilt. On purpose.
Premier markets every hull under a four-word promise: Overbuilt to Overdeliver. Here's what that actually means at the component level.
01
.090″ Tubes
Thicker Aluminum, Internal Baffles
Premier uses .090-inch gauge aluminum on its pontoon tubes — significantly thicker than mid-tier competitors. Tubes range from 25″ to 27″ outer diameter on the largest models, with internal baffles for compartmentalized buoyancy redundancy. Higher freeboard. Greater weight capacity. A drier ride in Gulf chop. If a tube is ever breached, the baffles keep the boat afloat.
02
Deck Structure
Z-Channel Floor Supports Every 16 Inches
The deck-to-tube connection determines how the entire boat behaves in chop. Premier uses heavily extruded Z-channel floor supports spaced at 16-inch intervals across the full length of the boat. Tight spacing prevents deck flex under load. No torque. No twist. No popped welds. No rattles three years in.
03
Side Panels
Dual-Wall Construction. Bonded. Not Bolted.
Most pontoons rattle because thin aluminum side panels vibrate against the railing in chop. Premier eliminates the resonance entirely with dual work-hardened panels chemically and mechanically bonded to a massive 2-inch outer rail. The result is a clean, seamless exterior — no exposed industrial ribs — and a noticeably quieter, more solid feel underway.
04
Furniture Substructure
Zero Wood. Zero Rot.
Florida humidity, salt mist, and constant UV destroy wood substructures. Premier doesn't give them anything to destroy. All furniture bases are composite, roto-molded, and entirely wood-free. There is nothing inside the seat base for moisture to absorb into, rot, or breed mold around.
Patent Portfolio · Showroom-Floor Differentiators
Technology Perfect for Boating in Southwest Florida Waters
Premier holds a portfolio of patents that simply don't exist elsewhere in the pontoon segment. Each one solves a real problem that experienced Southwest Florida boaters know all too well.
Southwest Florida · Saltwater-Specific
Engineered for the water we actually boat on.
Most pontoons are built in the Midwest, sold on freshwater lakes, and never asked to live in saltwater. Premier is different — and it's the specific reason Fish Tale Boats committed the entire 5-county region of Southwest Florida to this brand.
Saltwater corrodes aluminum through galvanic action. Premier solves this at the factory: dissimilar metals (steel, brass, bronze, copper) are never attached directly to the aluminum chassis. Every stainless-steel fastener is isolated with protective gaskets or nylon washers that break the electrical circuit before corrosion can start.
Premier ships every saltwater-rated boat with dedicated mounting brackets for sacrificial zinc anodes. Combined with the in-house powder-coated rails, the wood-free furniture substructure, and UV-stable Cool-Touch Ultrafabrics, a Premier built for SWFL is engineered from the keel up for the water it'll actually live on.
Fish Tale Boats Service · Fort Myers
14,000 sq-ft service center handles all saltwater protocols in-house.
Anode installs & inspection, factory-spec maintenance, full 10-year transferable bow-to-stern warranty support. You buy the boat. We keep it ready for SWFL.
Isolated
Stainless fasteners with nylon washers
Zinc anodes
Pre-mounted sacrificial brackets
Powder-coat
Rails done in-house, not outsourced
Wood-free
Composite roto-molded furniture bases
The Lineup at Fish Tale Boats
Four series. One pontoon worth owning.
Every Premier series is available to custom-build through Fish Tale Boats. Configure your boat — floor plan, finishes, fabrics, rail colors, helm electronics, audio, and feature packages — through our sales team across Fort Myers, Naples, and Bonita Springs.
Warranty & Resale
The longest-supported pontoon you can buy.
Premier protects every recreational pontoon with two stacked warranties. Together, they are among the most comprehensive in the pontoon industry — and the transferable bow-to-stern coverage is one of the major reasons a Premier holds its value at resale better than virtually anything in its class.
Limited Structural Warranty
Covers the chassis, tubes, and major welded structure. For as long as you own the boat.
Transferable Bow-to-Stern Warranty
Every digital component, hardware item, and luxury feature. Transferable means it follows the boat — not the owner.
When you sell or trade a Premier through Fish Tale Boats, the remaining warranty travels with it — a real, measurable line item on the resale invoice.
Honored at Fish Tale Boats. Our 14,000 sq-ft Fort Myers service department is fully authorized for warranty work.
The Short Answer
Why we chose Premier.
Fish Tale Boats has carried boats for thirty years. We've watched pontoons go from freshwater novelties to genuine coastal performance vessels — and we've watched our customers shift right along with them.
When we went looking for the pontoon line worthy of representing Fish Tale Boats across the 5-county Southwest Florida region, we evaluated builders from across the country. We came back to Premier every time.
Premier is the most engineered pontoon on the market. They invented the modern performance tritoon, they hold the patents that define the category, and they build every boat in a 150,000-square-foot facility in Big Lake, Minnesota — by hand, with American materials, by people who treat each hull like it's their own. We're responsible for our customers' lives, families and enjoyment on the water, and after a deep review there was no better match than Premier.
PTX vs. Standard Tritoon
+15%
Faster
top-end speed
+17%
Improvement
in planing speed
+17%
Better
fuel efficiency
+5%
Tighter
turning radius
Premier's proprietary PTX (Performance Tritoon Xperience) hull, measured against standard tritoon designs.
🇺🇸
Built in USA
Big Lake, MN
Since 1992
Production Line
300 ft.
Continuous. American-built.
American Craft · Est. 1992
American-built. American materials.
Premier Marine was founded in 1992 by Bob Menne — a Minnesota boatbuilder who liquidated personal assets to start the company at age 50, with a single vision: take the utilitarian pontoon and turn it into a long-lasting, high-quality craft for amazing recreation experiences.
Every Premier moves down a continuous 300-foot production line designed around one principle: “Custom Comes Standard.” Floor plans, finishes, fabrics, rail colors, and feature packages are configurable down to a granular level — without dramatically extending build time.
Aluminum rails are powder coated in-house. Every boat is fully assembled, aligned, and run-up indoors. Quality assurance ends in a 100% final inspection.
150K
Sq-ft Facility
30+
Years Building
100%
Final Inspection
Engineering Deep-Dive · PTX Hull
The PTX Hull. The reason Premier handles like a runabout.
For decades, the pontoon industry accepted three round aluminum tubes as the theoretical ceiling of pontoon performance. Premier broke that ceiling.
Performance Tritoon Xperience — PTX — is Premier's proprietary center-tube system, available in 28″, 30″, 32″, and a class-leading 36″ diameter. The center tube isn't round. It's multi-faceted, with a wide, completely flat planing surface — up to 12 inches wide on the 36″ version — that breaks the boat free from surface tension early.
The genius is in what Premier left out. Premier puts strakes only on the inner edges of the two outer tubes — the rest of the lift comes from the flat-bottom geometry of the center tube. Removing the outer strakes is what lets a Premier bank inward through a turn, the way a V-hull does. It carves.
“Premier doesn't drive like a pontoon. It drives like a 30-foot runabout that happens to seat twenty people.”
— Travis at Fish Tale Boats, after a sea trial on Estero Bay
The Build · Component Level
Overbuilt. On purpose.
Premier markets every hull under a four-word promise: Overbuilt to Overdeliver. Here's what that actually means at the component level.
01
.090″ Tubes
Thicker Aluminum, Internal Baffles
Premier uses .090-inch gauge aluminum on its pontoon tubes — significantly thicker than mid-tier competitors. Tubes range from 25″ to 27″ outer diameter on the largest models, with internal baffles for compartmentalized buoyancy redundancy. Higher freeboard. Greater weight capacity. A drier ride in Gulf chop. If a tube is ever breached, the baffles keep the boat afloat.
02
Deck Structure
Z-Channel Floor Supports Every 16 Inches
The deck-to-tube connection determines how the entire boat behaves in chop. Premier uses heavily extruded Z-channel floor supports spaced at 16-inch intervals across the full length of the boat. No torque. No twist. No popped welds. No rattles three years in.
03
Side Panels
Dual-Wall Construction. Bonded. Not Bolted.
Premier eliminates side-panel resonance with dual work-hardened panels chemically and mechanically bonded to a massive 2-inch outer rail. The result is a clean, seamless exterior and a noticeably quieter, more solid feel underway.
04
Furniture Substructure
Zero Wood. Zero Rot.
Florida humidity, salt mist, and constant UV destroy wood substructures. Premier doesn't give them anything to destroy. All furniture bases are composite, roto-molded, and entirely wood-free.
Patent Portfolio · Differentiators
Technology Perfect for Boating in Southwest Florida Waters
Premier holds a portfolio of patents that simply don't exist elsewhere in the pontoon segment. Each one solves a real problem that experienced Southwest Florida boaters know all too well.
Southwest Florida · Saltwater-Specific
Engineered for the water we actually boat on.
Most pontoons are built in the Midwest, sold on freshwater lakes, and never asked to live in saltwater. Premier is different — and it's the specific reason Fish Tale Boats committed the entire 5-county region of Southwest Florida to this brand.
Saltwater corrodes aluminum through galvanic action. Premier solves this at the factory: dissimilar metals are never attached directly to the aluminum chassis. Every stainless-steel fastener is isolated with protective gaskets or nylon washers that break the electrical circuit before corrosion can start.
Premier ships every saltwater-rated boat with dedicated mounting brackets for sacrificial zinc anodes. Combined with in-house powder-coated rails, the wood-free furniture substructure, and UV-stable Cool-Touch Ultrafabrics, a Premier built for SWFL is engineered from the keel up for the water it'll actually live on.
Isolated
Stainless fasteners with nylon washers
Zinc anodes
Pre-mounted sacrificial brackets
Powder-coat
Rails done in-house, not outsourced
Wood-free
Composite roto-molded furniture bases
Fish Tale Boats Service · Fort Myers
14,000 sq-ft service center handles all saltwater protocols in-house.
Anode installs & inspection, factory-spec maintenance, full 10-year transferable bow-to-stern warranty support. You buy the boat. We keep it ready for SWFL.
The Lineup at Fish Tale Boats
Four series. One pontoon worth owning.
Every Premier series is available to custom-build through Fish Tale Boats. Configure your boat — floor plan, finishes, fabrics, rail colors, helm electronics, audio, and feature packages — through our sales team across Fort Myers, Naples, and Bonita Springs.
Warranty & Resale
The longest-supported pontoon you can buy.
Premier protects every recreational pontoon with two stacked warranties. Together, they are among the most comprehensive in the pontoon industry — and the transferable bow-to-stern coverage is one of the major reasons a Premier holds its value at resale better than virtually anything in its class.
Limited Structural Warranty
Covers the chassis, tubes, and major welded structure. For as long as you own the boat.
Transferable Bow-to-Stern Warranty
Every digital component, hardware item, and luxury feature. Transferable — it follows the boat, not the owner.
When you sell or trade a Premier through Fish Tale Boats, the remaining warranty travels with it — a real, measurable line item on the resale invoice.
Honored at Fish Tale Boats. Our 14,000 sq-ft Fort Myers service department is fully authorized for warranty work.
Premier Pontoons
Premier Pontoons: Common Questions
Is Fish Tale Boats an authorized Premier Pontoons dealer?
Yes — Fish Tale Boats is an authorized Premier Pontoons dealership serving Fort Myers, Naples, and Bonita Springs in Southwest Florida.
What makes Premier Pontoons different from other pontoon brands?
Premier Pontoons are built with the patented PTX Performance Hull System, Troll & Stow motor mount, and industry-exclusive features. Every boat is engineered to handle Southwest Florida's saltwater environment and backed by a 10-year warranty.
Does Premier make tritoon pontoon boats?
Yes — Premier Pontoons offers tritoon configurations across several models. In structured data these are classified as pontoon boats, but Premier's three-tube design delivers superior performance and stability compared to standard two-tube pontoons.
Does Fish Tale Boats offer financing on Premier Pontoons?
Yes — Fish Tale Boats offers boat financing for Premier Pontoons. You can get pre-approved online or visit our Fort Myers, Naples, or Bonita Springs locations.
Can I trade in my current boat toward a new Premier Pontoon?
Absolutely. Fish Tale Boats accepts trade-ins and offers a free trade valuation tool on our website. Bring your boat in for an in-person appraisal at any of our Southwest Florida locations.
What Premier Pontoon models are available at Fish Tale Boats?
Fish Tale Boats carries multiple Premier Pontoon models including the Solaris, Sunscape, and Sunsation series. Contact our team for current in-stock availability at Fort Myers, Naples, or Bonita Springs.
