Table of Contents
How the Spots Rate for Fishing 1-5 xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xxi
North Carolina
Map 1
1 Okracoke Inlet 7
2 Hatteras Inlet 8
3 Cape Point at Buxton 10
4 Oregon Inlet 13
5 Pamlico Sound Shallows 14
6 Outer Banks Fishing Piers 17
7 Hatteras Open Beach 19
The Delmarva Peninsula
Map 23
8 Assateague Island National Seashore 27
9 Assateague Barrier Islands 31
10 Ocean City Potpourri 33
11 Indian River Inlet 35
12 Delaware State Parks 37
Pennsylvania
Map 39
13 Lower Delaware River 45
14 Schuylkill River 46
15 Upper Delaware River (above tidewater) 48
New Jersey
Map 51
Nuances of Jetties 55
16 New Jersey Saltwater Fishing Piers 58
17 Cape May Point 60
18 Hereford Inlet 62
19 Townsend's Inlet 63
20 Corson's Inlet (Strathmere Inlet) 65
21 Great Egg Harbor 67
22 Absecon Inlet Plus 68
23 Graveling Point (Radio Road approach) 70
24 Mystic Islands 72
25 Brigantine Inlet 73
26 Beach Haven Inlet (Hole Gate) 75
27 Long Beach Island 76
28 Barnegat Inlet South Jetty 77
29 Barnegat Inlet North Jetty 79
30 Sedge Island 81
31 Island Beach 83
32 Point Pleasant Canal 91
33 Brick Beach 92
34 Manasquan Inlet 94
35 Shark River Inlet 96
36 Manasquan to Long Branch 97
37 Sandy Hook Point 101
38 Lighthouse Bay 103
New York
Map 105
39 Piermont Pier 109
40 Croton Bay 110
41 Troy Dam 112
42 Manhattan Fishing Accesses 114
43 Breezy Point 119
44 Silver Point/Long Beach 122
45 Point Lookout 123
46 Jones Inlet (West End 2) 124
47 Captree State Park 126
48 Fire Island 127
49 Moriches Inlet 129
50 Shinnecock Inlet 131
51 Nepeague Beach 133
52 Montauk Point (Long Island) 134
53 Orient Point 142
54 Long Island North Shore 144
55 Sunken Meadow State Park 145
56 Long Island Power Authority Power Station (LILCO) 147
Connecticut
Map 149
57 Calf Pasture Point and Town Pier 153
58 Cedar Point and Compo Beach 154
59 Penfield Reef 156
60 Saint Mary's Beach, Ash Creek, and Henry J. Moore Fishing Pier 157
61 Housatonic River 159
62 Silver Sands State Park (Charles Island) 161
63 Enfield Dam 163
64 Hammonasset Beach State Park 164
65 Cornfield Point 165
66 Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Marine Headquarters 167
67 Sound View Beach 168
68 Niantic River 169
69 Harkness Memorial State Park 171
70 Thames River 173
71 Bluff Point State Park 175
Inlets: Where Stripers Prowl 179
Pick of the Month 185
Best in Species 187
Usual and Customary Requirements for an Over-sand Vehicle 189