Jacksonville Beach Pier
Duval County. The Jacksonville Beach Fishing Pier ran 1,300 feet into the Atlantic until October 2016, when Hurricane Matthew came up the coast as a category two storm and destroyed close to half of it.
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Where can you fish from a pier in Florida?
Public fishing piers save you a boat and a license in most cases, because a pier usually holds a blanket license that covers everyone on it.
On the Atlantic: Jacksonville Beach Pier in Duval County, the Westgate Cocoa Beach Pier in Brevard, Juno Beach Pier in Palm Beach County, and the George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier State Park in Nassau County, which is a whole former road bridge given over to fishing. On the Gulf: the Okaloosa Island Pier in Destin, Russell Fields City Pier and the M B Miller County Pier in Bay County, and the St Pete Pier in Pinellas. Three are closed while they are rebuilt: the Flagler Beach Municipal Pier, expected to open in February 2027; Naples Pier in Collier County, where the work began in January 2026 and is expected to take about 18 months; and the Anna Maria City Pier in Manatee County, expected to reopen in the fall of 2026.
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Flagler Beach Municipal Pier
Flagler County. The Flagler Beach pier opened in 1928, three years after the town was incorporated, as an 800-foot wooden structure. It became the center of the place: people fished from it, met on it, and the businesses along the seafront lived off the traffic it brought.
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Brevard County. The Westgate Cocoa Beach Pier runs 800 feet out over the Atlantic and works as a small entertainment strip rather than a plain fishing pier, with restaurants and bars along its length, an arcade, gift shops and live music.
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Palm Beach County. Guarded, and a beach that suits surfers and families at the same time. The Juno Beach Pier runs out from beside it.
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Nassau County. It ran a mile between Big Talbot Island and Amelia Island until the new A1A bridge took the traffic. It was going to be demolished, and was saved in 1998 through the work of Florida Representative George Crady, whose name it now carries.
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Okaloosa County. The Okaloosa Island Pier is on Okaloosa County's parks list and is run by a leaseholder. It extends 1,270 feet into the Gulf of Mexico from 300 Pier Road, next to the Boardwalk, and is used for fishing and for walking out over the water.
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Bay County. The Russell-Fields City Pier runs more than 1,500 feet into the Gulf, which the city calls one of the longest piers on that coast, and it is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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Bay County. 12213 Front Beach Road: a 1,500-foot fishing pier with six beach accesses spread along 1,700 feet of beachfront behind it, and part of that beach is guarded. Fishing from the pier is $6 a day for anyone over six, and $3 for children, people 65 and over, active military and disabled visitors; watching without a rod is $3.
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Pinellas County. St. Petersburg has put piers into Tampa Bay since the 1800s. The Million Dollar Pier opened on November 25, 1926, with 10,000 people on it and a Mediterranean Revival casino at the end.
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Collier County. The sand at the foot of 12th Avenue South, where the Naples Pier stands. The pier is closed and being rebuilt: Hurricane Ian destroyed about 460 feet of it in 2022 and the city is replacing the whole structure, higher and on larger pilings, with construction that began in January 2026 and that the city expects to take about 18 months.
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Manatee County. Hurricanes Helene and Milton destroyed much of the structure in 2024. Reconstruction is under way and, as reported in August 2026, the pier is expected to reopen in the fall of that year, so anyone planning a visit should check whether it has opened before setting out.
Open the guide →More questions like this.
Where is the surf fishing in Florida?
Surf fishing works where the beach has structure - a trough, a bar, a cut, an inlet - rather than a flat sheet of sand.
Where do you go deep sea fishing in Florida?
Where the charter fleets are. On the Panhandle, Destin in Okaloosa County has one of the largest charter fleets in the country because the hundred-fathom curve comes closer to shore there than anywhere else in the Gulf, with Panama City in Bay County and Pensacola in Escambia close behind for red snapper and grouper.
Where is the tarpon fishing in Florida?
Boca Grande Pass, between Gasparilla Island in Lee County and Charlotte County to the north, is the name everyone knows - the fish stack up in the deep pass in May and June and the boats work it shoulder to shoulder.
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