Deerfield Beach pier fees 2026: every price since Feb. 23, worked out

The City of Deerfield Beach sets the fees for its International Fishing Pier, and its pier page carries a rate table marked “EFFECTIVE Monday, February 23, 2026.” Every figure below comes from that table and the City’s parking page, both checked Oct. 20, 2026. The sums are worked out from those figures, not estimated. The bait shop at the pier entrance sells passes, bait and rentals.

• The current pier rate table is marked "EFFECTIVE Monday, February 23, 2026." City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier
• Sightseeing: $2.00 (FREE for DFB Residents, Veterans, and Active Military and First Responders, with ID). City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier
• Fishing: $4.00 (FREE for Veterans and Active Military with ID). Unlike sightseeing, the fishing fee is not listed as free for residents or first responders. City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier
• The pier page sits under Departments > Parks & Recreation on the City of Deerfield Beach website; the pier is a city facility and its bait shop/concession sells passes, bait and rentals. City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier
• The city describes "the Bait Shop, which is located at the International Fishing Pier entrance." City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier

Who gets in free

The two free lists are not the same, and this is where people trip. With ID, Deerfield Beach residents, veterans, active military and first responders walk the pier free. For fishing the free list is shorter: veterans and active military with ID. The City does not list residents or first responders as free for fishing, so a resident who walks on free still pays $4 to fish, and so does a first responder.

Worked examples

Two visitors, one rod of their own

Two adults from outside Deerfield Beach who walk out together pay $4. If one of them fishes with their own gear, the bill is $6: $2 for the walker and $4 for the angler. That assumes the fishing fee covers the angler’s walk out, which the table implies but does not spell out.

Renting a rod

The rental package is $20 and includes a rod, one $6 pack of bait (as available) and 5 hours of parking in the pier lot (if available). The rod alone is $15. Both need a $25 refundable deposit, in cash, with ID. The table does not say whether the $4 fishing fee is included, so ask. If it is charged as well, a visitor renting the package hands over $49 at the window, $25 of it in cash, and gets the $25 back with the rod, for a day’s cost of $24.

Package or rod alone? If you also want angler parking, the rod alone plus 5 hours of angler parking comes to $25, against $20 for the package, which already includes 5 hours in the pier lot when space is free and a bait pack the City prices at $6. That makes the package $5 cheaper before you count the bait. If you walked in or parked elsewhere, the rod alone saves $5 and you buy bait as you need it.

Rentals run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Rods must stay on the pier, and there are no rentals when the bait shop is closed.

Angler parking against the meter

Angler parking is $10 for 5 hours in the pier lot. The same 5 hours at the pier lot meter cost $15 from Monday 6 a.m. to Friday 4 p.m., and $20 from Friday 4 p.m. to midnight Sunday. When it is on offer, angler parking saves $5 on a weekday and $10 at the weekend rate.

• Rod Rental Package $20 ($15 rod only) plus a $25 CASH ONLY refundable deposit with ID. 8 AM – 5 PM only; rods must remain on the pier; package includes rod, 1 pack of $6 bait (as available) and 5-hour parking in the Pier lot (if available). No rod rentals when the Bait Shop is closed. City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier
• Angler Parking (Pier lot only): $10 per 5 hours, "when available and only when the bait shop is open." City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier
• Pier Parking Lot: $3.00/hour Monday from 6 AM to Friday at 4 PM; $4.00/hour Friday from 4 PM to Midnight on Sunday. Kirk Cottrell Pavilion has the same rates. City of Deerfield Beach: Parking

Passes: when they pay off

• Monthly fishing pass: $50 for residents and for active military, veterans and first responders; $63 for non-residents. At $4 a day, the non-resident pass pays off on the 16th fishing day in a month, and the resident pass on the 13th.
• Six-month fishing pass: $300 or $375. For non-residents it saves $3 on six monthly passes ($378). For residents it costs exactly what six monthly passes would, so it saves nothing.
• Annual fishing pass: $500 or $625. Against two six-month passes it saves residents $100 and non-residents $125; against 12 monthly passes a non-resident saves $131.
• Sightseer passes are for non-residents, since residents walk free: $13 a month or $63 for six months. The monthly pass pays off on the 7th walk in a month at $2 each, and the six-month pass saves $15 on six monthly passes.

Veterans and active military already fish and walk free with ID, so for them the table shows no saving from a pass. Ask at the bait shop if a pass brings anything else.

• Monthly fishing pass: $50 DFB Residents; $63 Non-DFB Residents; $50 Active Military/Veterans/First Responders. City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier
• Six-month fishing pass: $300 DFB Residents; $375 Non-DFB Residents; $300 Active Military/Veterans/First Responders. City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier
• Annual fishing pass: $500 DFB Residents; $625 Non-DFB Residents; $500 Active Military/Veterans/First Responders. City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier
• Sightseer passes: Monthly $13 and Six Month $63, both listed "for Non-DFB Residents" (residents walk free). City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier

Paying online

The City says all online payments carry a 3% convenience fee or a $0.50 ACH fee, and that credit cards are not stored. On a non-resident annual fishing pass of $625, 3% adds $18.75, for $643.75. By ACH the same pass comes to $625.50. On a single $4 fishing fee the card charge would be $0.12.

• "All online payments are subject to a 3% convenience fee or $.50 ACH fee"; "Credit Cards will NOT be stored." City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier

Why older figures you may see are wrong

Several pages that rank for this pier still carry fees from before Feb. 23, 2026: $1 for sightseers in a 2015 newspaper entry, $1 for residents and $2 for everyone else on a 2023 rental blog, and rod rentals at $16 or $18 on older fishing and travel pages. Those figures are outdated. The City’s table is the one that applies, and under it residents walk on free rather than paying $1.

Hours have moved too. From Oct. 20, 2026 the City closes the pier from sunset to sunrise until further notice, so a page that says you can fish until 11 p.m. is out of date as well. Our night closure article has the details.

• Under "Upcoming operational impacts" the city says: "As of October 20, 2026, we will be CLOSED SUNSET through SUNRISE until further notice, due to maintenance needs." No end date is given. City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier

Before you pay

Call the pier at 954-250-4167 if you need to check a fee, a pass or whether rods are available that day. The pier hours and fees page has the fee calculator, parking covers the lot and meters, and our fishing license explainer covers the one cost the City’s table does not.

• Pier phone numbers listed by the city: 954-250-4167 (pier) and 954-250-4166 (Manager). City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier

Pier fee questions

Written by the Deerfield Beach Pier Guide Editorial Team. AI tools help us draft; people check every fact before it publishes.

Dates, rules and hours can change. The organisers have the final word: City of Deerfield Beach: International Fishing Pier (operator)