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Fishing piers near Tampa
Tampa, FLBuilt from our data

Fishing piers near Tampa

10 stops3 watersUpdated Nov 6

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

Distances are straight-line from downtown Tampa; 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.

Tampa Bay1 min · 0.5 mi
EstuarySaltwater

Tampa Bay

Hillsborough

17

max 93 ft · surveyed

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  1. 1Rivercrest Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 3.1 mi from downtown.
  2. 3Al Lopez Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 4.2 mi from downtown.
  3. 4Lowry Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 4.8 mi from downtown.
  4. 5Gadsden Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 5.9 mi from downtown.
  5. 6Bobby Hicks Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 5.9 mi from downtown.
  6. 7Williams Park: pier on Tampa Bay, ≈ 7.4 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.

Old Tampa Bay10 min · 6.3 mi
EstuarySaltwater

Old Tampa Bay

Pinellas

17

max 93 ft · surveyed

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  1. 2Ballast Point Park: pier on Old Tampa Bay, ≈ 4.1 mi from downtown.
  2. 8Picnic Island Fishing Pier: pier on Old Tampa Bay, ≈ 8.3 mi from downtown.
  3. 9Weedon Island: pier on Old Tampa Bay, ≈ 11.6 mi from downtown.

Clearwater Harbor

Recorded in Clearwater Harbor: Common Snook, Spotted Seatrout, Red Drum, and Tarpon.

Surveyed depths in Clearwater Harbor reach 26 ft.

Clearwater Harbor37 min · 24.2 mi
EstuarySaltwater

Clearwater Harbor

Pinellas

17

max 26 ft · surveyed

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  1. 10Dunedin Marina/Pier: pier on Clearwater Harbor, ≈ 21 mi from downtown.

When the fish bite here

By our bite calendar, November is a slow month around Tampa 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 Tampa 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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