Fishing near Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn sits at the edge of New York Harbor, where the East River, Upper Bay, and the nearshore Atlantic converge to create one of the most accessible urban fisheries on the East Coast. Shore anglers work piers from Sheepshead Bay to Bay Ridge, Canarsie, and Brooklyn Bridge Park, while party boats out of Sheepshead Bay run bottom-fishing and striper trips within sight of the skyline. Prospect Park Lake rounds out the scene with a catch-and-release freshwater fishery in the middle of the borough.