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Arrowhead Marsh Pier — Oakland

Public Pier — No Fishing License required What’cha see? That grammatically incorrect greeting was directed at three gentlemen who were intently staring into the water from a small bridge that almost adjoins the Arrowhead Marsh Pier, one of the two piers located in the Martin…

Cabrillo Mole — Avalon, Catalina Island

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required “But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seëst—if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)— To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any…

Estuary Park Pier — Oakland

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required Visiting this pier (and park) at times reminds me of one of the lessons that was drilled into my head while taking my organizational development classes in college: (to simplify) the greater the difference between the espoused theory…

Franklin D. Roosevelt Pier — Oakland — Gone But Not Forgotten

Franklin D. Roosevelt Fishing Pier — Closed But Not Forgotten For about ten years I lived in the East Bay community of Pinole. During that time I learned to appreciate and respect the town of Oakland, a town that seemed to get little positive publicity…

Alice Street Pier — Oakland

Public Access Area — Status Unclear — Fishing License May Be Required My first fishing trip to this small pier was on a fairly balmy, shirtsleeve weather kind of day in early January. Boat traffic was minimal, most of the nearby trees were void of…

Oceanside Pier

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required The date was August 25, 1966, just nine days before my bride and I would tie the knot. The plans were finished and hopefully everything was ready to go. It was time to relax and this would be…

Monterey Municipal Wharf #2

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required The floating docks of Monterey Harbor and the pilings beneath Municipal Wharf II provide a rich and diverse community created largely by human activity. Such communities have imaginatively been called “accidental zoos.”… At low tide the pilings, shaded…

Paradise Beach Pier — Tiburon

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required This is another of the Marin County piers that on a day-to-day basis offer only so so fishing but which, because of it’s other facilities and surroundings, is a place visitor’s return to cheerfully time after time. The…

Oceanside Small Craft Harbor Fishing Pier

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required Talk about a contrast. The Oceanside Pier is huge and can handle several hundred anglers at a time; this small pier can maybe handle a dozen or so anglers but it would feel crowded. The bigger Oceanside Pier…

Bayside Park Pier — Chula Vista

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required Sometimes things stick in your mind. Hopefully for a pier it is the memory of a great day or a memorable fish. Not so with this pier. Instead, it concerns a couple of events that took place one…