How about fishing off the finger piers at King's Park for mackeral...or frost fish from the beach there...
Or rowing over to Goat Island before there even was a causeway...
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.