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Candlestick Point Park Piers — San Francisco

Public Piers — No Fishing License Required Nearby stood the stadium that made this point infamous — Candlestick Park (OOPS! 3Com Park at Candlestick Point) — “The Stick.” Why infamous? Because of the fog and the cold, blustery, hurricane-like winds that could whip through the…

Fort Point Pier — San Francisco

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required A quote from a Golden Gate National Recreation Area brochure perhaps best sums up the diversity offered by this magnificent area: “Golden Gate National Recreation Area is a park that begins where the Pacific Ocean meets San Francisco…

Berkeley Pier

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required The Berkeley Pier is closed for renovation and no one seems to know when or if it will be reopened. If a survey had been done over the past twenty-five years as to the most visited pier in…

McNears Beach Fishing Pier — San Rafael

Public Pier — No Fishing License Required I was fishing on the pier one mid-August day (with no luck) when a lady came up and asked how the fishing was. I said I hadn’t had a bite. She was attractive and wearing a dress that…

White Sturgeon

Sturgeons: Family Acipenseridae Acipenser transmontanus, the bottom feeder, Moves sluggishly through the turbid depths of the estuary Its truncated mouth sifting the silty bottom Groping for herring egg, ghost shrimp and worm… “Bottom Feeder” — Kirk Lombard and the Rube Waddell Band Species: Acipenser transmontanus…