Pier Fishing In California Archives - Page 6 of 26

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…

L. M. “Pep” Pepper Park Pier — National City

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required One day I got a letter from John Lopez, an angler who had read the first edition of Pier Fishing In California. It began, “locals call it the 24th Street Pier—you may have omitted it deliberately.” The bad…

Ventura Pier

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required CURRENTLY CLOSED FROM WINTER STORM DAMAGE AND NO OPENING DATE ESTABLISHED. There is something almost magical about the ocean at night. For myself, that sense of magic is heightened when I’m on a pier at night. Such was…

Santa Cruz Wharf

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required When I first sat down to write about this pier, I almost didn’t know where to start. Should I talk about the pier itself, the municipal wharf built in 1913, the wharf which is the longest of the…

Morro Bay North T-Pier

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required Named for their shape, two mid-sized piers sit at the north end of the Embarcadero in Morro Bay. They are only a short distance apart and the environments and fishing are nearly identical. Regardless of size, they are…

Antioch Pier aka U. E. “Compy” Compomizzmo Municipal Fishing Pier

Public Pier — Freshwater — Fishing License Required This fairly long pier is the oldest Wildlife Conservation Board Pier in the area and receives quite a bit of angling pressure, although nowhere near the action I would expect in this area. In part it is…