The Florida Department of Transportation recently closed the southern Skyway Fishing Pier due to safety concerns, ending fishing access. This collection of stories recounts the pier's closure and its ...

Angler Angel Cruz frequents the Skyway Fishing Pier causeways almost on a daily basis. He has discovered a few casts in the water could always produce a lifetime memory. With this in mind, he enjoys ...

Nearly half of the south Skyway Fishing Pier State Park — located on the Manatee County side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge — is set to close indefinitely. The Florida State Parks website, run by the ...

The entrance to the south Skyway fishing pier runs alongside Interstate 275 in Manatee County in this September 2024 Bradenton Herald file photo. Tiffany Tompkins ttompkins@bradenton.com A stretch of ...

Nearly half of the south Skyway Fishing Pier State Park - located on the Manatee County side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge - is set to close indefinitely. The Florida State Parks website, run by the ...

The bar was set high on the opening day of the 70th annual Suncoast Tarpon Roundup, and raising it will take some doing. Saturday, James Roehm set a tournament record for landlubbers and took the ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Effective Monday, part of the Skyway Fishing Pier is closed indefinitely after a structural inspection. A notice posted on the Florida State Parks' website reads that access ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating after finding a man dead at one of the Skyway Fishing Piers. Troopers responded to the south side of the pier on I-275 around 4:20 a.m.