Perched on the Shelter Island fishing pier in Point Loma, San Diego since Groundhog Day 2013, Fathom Bistro, Bait, and Tackle is the city's only craft-beer bar built directly over the water — a combined taproom, kitchen, and full-service bait shop operating under a single Port Authority lease. Twenty draft handles rotate through a style-diverse tap list that deliberately balances ambers, brown ales, and Belgian styles against the IPA-heavy pours dominating most San Diego tap walls, a curation philosophy that contrasts with the raw-bar-and-flagship approach at Brigantine Seafood & Oyster Bar up Shelter Island Drive. The "World Famous Fathom Explodo Dog" — a bacon-wrapped Vienna Beef hot dog smothered in mustard, cheese, and kimchi — anchors a housemade-sausage menu that leans Chicago and Hawaiian comfort alongside pier-standard burgers. Nautical décor runs to vintage dive helmets, submarine plaques, and maritime B-movie posters, while a private dock lets kayakers and boaters tie up for a pint without leaving the water — a dock-and-drink setup unique among Shelter Island bars including Club Marina onshore. Weekend brunch service adds biscuits and gravy to the pier-top kitchen, pushing the bait-shop-turned-bistro into a full three-meal operation that draws both early-morning anglers buying live bait and afternoon craft-beer visitors watching fishermen haul halibut and bat rays off the railing.