Fishing piers near Bridgeport

31 piers and shore spots on public waters near Bridgeport — no boat needed.

Distances are straight-line from downtown Bridgeport; below are the 10 closest, grouped by water.

Long Island Sound

Recorded in Long Island Sound: Atlantic Menhaden, Scup, Mummichog, and Bluefish.

Surveyed depths in Long Island Sound reach 383 ft.

2 min · 0.7 mi

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Long Island Sound

Southeastern Connecticut

max 383 ft · surveyed

Water page

1Pleasure Beach Fishing Pier: pier on Long Island Sound, ≈ 1.4 mi from downtown.
2Long Beach: shore access on Long Island Sound, ≈ 3.2 mi from downtown.
3Saint Mary's by the Sea: shore access on Long Island Sound, ≈ 3.3 mi from downtown.
4Point-No-Point: shore access on Long Island Sound, ≈ 3.8 mi from downtown.
5Russian Beach: shore access on Long Island Sound, ≈ 4.1 mi from downtown.
6Penfield Beach: shore access on Long Island Sound, ≈ 4.1 mi from downtown.
7Rickards Beach/Dune: shore access on Long Island Sound, ≈ 4.1 mi from downtown.
8Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge-Milford Point Unit: shore access on Long Island Sound, ≈ 4.4 mi from downtown.
9Penfield Reef: shore access on Long Island Sound, ≈ 4.5 mi from downtown.
10Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center: shore access on Long Island Sound, ≈ 4.6 mi from downtown.

When the fish bite here

By our bite calendar, Bay Anchovy is at peak around Bridgeport in November.

Where this guide comes from

Every sentence here is assembled from the data on the Bridgeport fishing page: road drive times where a route was built (≈ marks straight-line distances), access points from state registries, the species recorded in each water and our bite calendar, adjusted for latitude. Nothing is written by hand or generated by AI.

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