Many new snags have shown up along the seafloor there that missed being plucked out when the Army Corp did its dragging of the bay post-Sandy cleanup. Debris from Superstorm Sandy is prevalent in the area as an inlet formed during Sandy in the exact spot of the Mantoloking Bridge, acting as a conduit for all the houses, cars, debris and detritus to suck in and out during the storm. The pier gives anglers access to cast and fish into the deeper waters of the ICW channel that runs under the drawbridge, as well as many surrounding shallower flats. The Mantoloking Fishing Pier County Park with its bait stations, restrooms, parking areas and gazebo was opened in the summer of 2012 until Superstorm Sandy damaged the park area in October 2012, which subsequently closed until its reopening again on July 25, 2013. The pier exists on the west side of the bridge in Brick Township and was originally just a pretty dilapidated concrete structure to cast a line from. The Mantoloking Pier came into being in 2005, consisting of a 160-foot section left over from the destruction of the second Mantoloking Bridge, which made way for the newly designed contemporary drawbridge.
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