Facilities: Free parking is available near both piers; restrooms, picnic tables, BBQ’s, and large grassy areas are located near the Arrowhead Marsh Pier. There are no fish cleaning facilities or bait and tackle shops. There are several restaurants and motels located just a few blocks away on Hegenberger.
Handicapped Facilities: There are handicapped restrooms near the Arrowhead Marsh Pier and most trails are paved. The pier has wooden railings approximately 44″ high.
How To Get There: Take I880 to Hegenberger Road then go west toward the airport. Go to Doolittle Drive and turn left and follow it to Swan Way where you will turn right again. The entrance to the park is a third of a block down on your left. To get to the Arrowhead Marsh Pier simply follow the park road as it winds to the north; the road ends at the parking lot near the pier.
Management: East Bay Regional Park District.
License is required here according to the park police. I got ding for a 200.00 ticket for not having my fishing license while fishing on the pier this year (2018). -_-
This should be a public pier that does not require a license. I’ve changed the information at the top but will be contacting park officials as to why they say a license is required.
Thanks Ken. I asked the park police why there is no sign out like Antioch Pier that a fishing license is required and all he said was “you’re a fisherman, you should know if a license is required or not and you don’t need any signs to tell you that.” I didn’t want to escalate anything else because he just went on and on and said “lucky fish and game wasn’t the one issuing you the ticket because it would cost 10x as much.”
Okay, now I know exactly where this spot is. I came there maybe (10) years ago but turned around because it was getting dark.
Not easy to find because you could pass it right by. A mapping address would be 80 Swan Way. I never reached the pier in the very back down the road (until now). The parking lot is a stones throw from the wooden pier. The bridge across the canal is just to the right of it. Note: my gps took me to the parking lot of Digicom which is right on Parder across thr canal. I walked over the bridge but got in my car and drove all the way around to the correct parking lot for EBRP.
Standing on the lookout point, I realized that I had been here for a music video shoot some (20) years ago for a Too $hort music video where we had the entire main park to ourselves on a rental agreement.
The part I like, and am more familiar with is the entrance where there is a small parking lot and fishing area that looks across at Doolittle Pier which is much more obvious in its location. I have looked over from Doolittle and have seen people tossing lures in hopes of striper.
Shonuff88, The East Bay Regional Park District confirmed today that this pier and the pier on Doolittle Drive should be considered public piers and you should not have received a ticket. The “fisheries” man at the East Bay Regional Park District also said you would probably win if you contested the ticket. But, I told him that I thought you had already paid the fine.
Fished here since I was little, I’m in my 30’s now. I never knew this place was somewhere that didn’t require a license since I’ve been checked and harassed for fishing there at least every 3rd time I go. I’ve never gone without having a license however. Majority of police encounters I’ve had at this location are not friendly they don’t like fishermen there plain and simple.
On a more positive note, I have had some of my best days here. Nothing huge outside of the occasional bat ray snag but cast a spoon out or a small sized swimbait and on the right days and the striper will be hitting.