It was damage from a storm in the ‘30s that finally led to the original wharf’s replacement by the smaller and narrower “pleasure pier” seen today. Built on the same site, the pier is home for local and visiting anglers alike. The warehouse built by Cass has become the community center near the foot of the pier that also houses the Cayucos Art Society Gallery.
In 2013, old age finally caught up with the pier and a rebuild was necessary (as seen above).
Cayucos Pier Facts
Hours: Open 24 hours a day year round.
Facilities: Benches, lights, and fish cleaning stations are found on the pier. Adequate free parking is found near the foot of the pier along with restrooms and showers. If the kids get bored, the beach also has a nice collection of playground equipment. You can rent tackle ($3 half a day, $5 all day) and buy bait just up the street at Bill’s Sporting Goods. Near the pier is the Pier Cafe, stop in and look at photos taken half a century ago when the town was a center for abalone.
Handicapped Facilities: Handicapped parking but non-handicapped restrooms. The pier surface is wood planking with a rail height of 39 inches. Not posted for handicapped.
How To Get There: Take Highway 1 to either Ocean Boulevard, which is the main street and will take you past the pier, or take the Cayucos Drive exit which will take you straight to the pier.
Management: San Luis Obispo County.
I see these are some older posts good tips but how is the fishing now for perch and Halibuts
Can’t really say since we no longer have a reporter for that pier.
Was at Cayucos, pier yestetday fishing, caught the smallest bull head in my life. Bunch of jack smelt. Nothing big or interesting.
How is it this year? I would like to take my son and hopefully he’ll catch some smaller fish since we don’t have large tackle.
Sorry but I have not been able to get recent reports from the pier. As a general rule there are always some smaller fish such as white croaker (kingfish) and small sanddab available. Just use size 6-8 hooks and a small piece of bait sized for the hook.
My husband just caught a big shark on small tackle! Your son will have fun we caught a bunch of fish, recently. The shark was too big to pull up on the pier as we were not prepared to catch something big
We have been fishing on the pier the last couple weeks.
Caught a bunch of Jacksmelt and white croaker during the day, not huge but still fun. At night we caught a bunch of white croaker, on the smaller side, a bunch of tiny sculpin (I think that’s how you spell it.
July 17th 2021 we went night fishing and my husband caught a blue shark! About 4/5 feet, could not pull it out of the water, it was too big his line snapped. Also watched a guy a few weeks back, we watched a guy catch a huge guitar shark. All caught on squid.
Long story short, everytime we go the fish are biting and it’s fun. Recommend going!
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