The family is thinking about going down to Broadkill or Slaughter beach at some point this summer. We have never been to either place before so I was hoping if someone could tell me whether there are places for public parking and if there are any good surf fishing spots in these locations. 
Slaughter and/or Broadkill
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There's parking at Broadkill, not sure about slaughter.
One thing Broadkill DEFINITELY has is bugs.....and the fishing is fair
as long as you wanna catch horse-shoe crabs.
If it were me, i'd drive another 15 min south and go to Cape Henlopen State Park.
MUCH better place.
If it must be Broadkill, then I would pay attention to the weather report
(specifically wind speed/direction)
and make sure I'm going when there's a nice on-shore
wind. That'll blow the biting flies inland making it tolerable.
Never been to slaughter, but I would imagine it's similar. -
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There's parking at Broadkill, not sure about slaughter.
One thing Broadkill DEFINITELY has is bugs.....and the fishing is fair
as long as you wanna catch horse-shoe crabs.
If it were me, i'd drive another 15 min south and go to Cape Henlopen State Park.
MUCH better place.
If it must be Broadkill, then I would pay attention to the weather report
(specifically wind speed/direction)
and make sure I'm going when there's a nice on-shore
wind. That'll blow the biting flies inland making it tolerable.
Never been to slaughter, but I would imagine it's similar.
Thanks. I go the Henlopen and DSSSP quite a bit. Slaughter and Broadkill are a little closer to me and like I said I haven't been there before. -
Broadkill and Slaughter have gruesome names.
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Bring bug spray. The bugs make it worth it to drive to Cape. They were really bad.
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Very little beach at Broadkill.
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Wow look how little all the girls are!!! What year was this????
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Wow look how little all the girls are!!! What year was this????June 2005.
Look how much hair Andrew had.
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I didn't realize you could drive out onto the "beach" at Broadkill otherwise I wouldn't have asked about parking.Technically it's Beach Plum Island.
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June 2005.
Great pics buddy . I forgot all about that .
Didnt we end up leaving there to go to Cape ? -
Great pics buddy . I forgot all about that .
Didnt we end up leaving there to go to Cape ?Yeah, this was at Cape.
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Slaughter Beach has public parking behind the firehouse and also many sand "roads" you can park on. They sorta look like driveways but they are roads. Fishing isn't bad and water is real calm. Not much beach depending on where you set up.
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Lots of these there:
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Thanks for blowing my cover. Now Ian's going to make me do my own fishing.
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Thanks for blowing my cover. Now Ian's going to make me do my own fishing.I've got a few other "interesting" pics of you as well.
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