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Fishing piers near St. Petersburg
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Fishing piers near St. Petersburg

10 stops3 watersUpdated Nov 6

17 piers and shore spots on public waters near St. Petersburg — no boat needed.

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

Tampa Bay

Recorded in Tampa Bay: Common Snook, Spotted Seatrout, Red Drum, and Tarpon.

Surveyed depths in Tampa Bay reach 93 ft.

  1. 1Demen's Landing: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 0.4 mi from downtown.
  2. 2St. Pete Pier: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 0.5 mi from downtown.
  3. 3Bartlet Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 1.4 mi from downtown.
  4. 4Coquina Key Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 2.2 mi from downtown.
  5. 5Del Holmes Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 2.6 mi from downtown.
  6. 6Little Bayou Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 3.6 mi from downtown.

Boca Ciega Bay

Recorded in Boca Ciega Bay: Common Snook, Spotted Seatrout, Red Drum, and Tarpon.

Surveyed depths in Boca Ciega Bay reach 38 ft.

  1. 7Clam Bayou Nature Park: pier on Boca Ciega Bay, ≈ 4.4 mi from downtown.
  2. 8Walter and Bert Williams Fishing Pier: pier on Boca Ciega Bay, ≈ 5 mi from downtown.
  3. 10Belle Vista Mini Park: pier on Boca Ciega Bay, ≈ 7.2 mi from downtown.

Old Tampa Bay

Recorded in Old Tampa Bay: Common Snook, Spotted Seatrout, Red Drum, and Tarpon.

Surveyed depths in Old Tampa Bay reach 93 ft.

  1. 9Weedon Island: pier on Old Tampa Bay, ≈ 5.2 mi from downtown.

When the fish bite here

By our bite calendar, November is a slow month around St. Petersburg for the fish recorded at these stops — the bars on each card show when each one picks up.

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Where this guide comes from

Every sentence here is assembled from the data on the St. Petersburg 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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