Spy house pier (Port Monmouth pier)

[Manny]

Had cabin fever, so since I live close to all my fishing spots, decided to check out the spy house pier, since I believe Tomkat posted a link about it being rebuilt. I believe this is the second time in since 2011 that it is rebuilt, since it was also destroyed, before Sandy in the previous storm with had in 2011.

I stopped fishing this pier, because in my fishing experience there, unless you
are fishing the end, you will not catch anything. I have caught fish there, but never off to the sides. Not sure if it is, because since there are so many poles out at the end, this acts like a chum and attracts the fish to those baits first, but that has always been my experience there. Plus I usually take a net with me, but when you are alone the net is useless, because you usually need some to net the fish for you. However I usually fish the beach or sod banks to avoid this problem. I am assuming that the pier was closed all of 2013, but would like to hear from anyone that fishes it often if that was the case and if they just fished off the beach and how did they do fishing off the beach, if the pier was closed. also a lot of fishermen on that pier act like they own it, so this kind of turned me off to it, though I have to say there are a lot of good friendly fisherman there that are great and outnumber the bad ones. Also I have to day that fisherman are usually the most friendliest people I meet since I fish myself, but like everything there will be a few that will screw it up for all of us. Attached some pics I took today.