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Fishing piers near Jacksonville
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Fishing piers near Jacksonville

10 stops4 watersUpdated Nov 6

15 piers and shore spots on public waters near Jacksonville — no boat needed.

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

Mill Cove

Recorded in Mill Cove: Red Drum, Common Snook, Spotted Seatrout, and Tarpon.

Surveyed depths in Mill Cove reach 32 ft.

  1. 1Blue Cypress Park: pier on Mill Cove, ≈ 4.1 mi from downtown.
  2. 2Reddie Point Preserve: pier on Mill Cove, ≈ 4.9 mi from downtown.
  3. 3Dames Point Park: pier on Mill Cove, ≈ 7.3 mi from downtown.

Browns Creek

Recorded in Browns Creek: Common Snook, Spotted Seatrout, Red Drum, and Tarpon.

Surveyed depths in Browns Creek reach 16 ft.

  1. 4Browns Creek: pier on Browns Creek, ≈ 9.8 mi from downtown.

Saint Johns River

Recorded in Saint Johns River: Flier, Spotted Bass, Brown Bullhead, and Spotted Gar.

Surveyed depths in Saint Johns River reach 65 ft.

  1. 5County Dock Rd. Fishing Pier: pier on Saint Johns River, ≈ 11 mi from downtown.
  2. 6Helen Cooper Floyd Park: pier on Saint Johns River, ≈ 13.3 mi from downtown.
  3. 8Alpine Groves Park: pier on Saint Johns River, ≈ 17 mi from downtown.
  4. 9Knight's Marina: pier on Saint Johns River, ≈ 20 mi from downtown.
  5. 10Riverfront Park: pier on Saint Johns River, ≈ 21.2 mi from downtown.

Doctors Lake

Recorded in Doctors Lake: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Sunshine Bass, and Brown Bullhead.

Surveyed depths in Doctors Lake reach 22 ft.

  1. 7Lake Shore Boat Ramp: pier on Doctors Lake, ≈ 14.6 mi from downtown.

When the fish bite here

By our bite calendar, White Bass is at peak around Jacksonville in November.

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Where this guide comes from

Every sentence here is assembled from the data on the Jacksonville 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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