Shore marks

This delightful beach requires a good walk from the car park, down a cliff path to the beach below. Species caught here range from Bass, Ray, Plaice and Dogfish and you can use most methods from different areas of the beach. I have spent a lot of time spinning from the beach and find that [...]

Heading back towards Helston from Penzance brings you across this fishing beach. A lovely mark with a great sandy beach! Lug and fish baits work well in this area for Bass, Dog fish, Ray and Turbot. The locals comment on how well this beach fishes on a low tide, bucking the normal trend.

This long strip of sand runs from Marazion across St Michael mount to Penzance. The Penzance end has some tunnels running under the railway line and fresh water comes out of them attracting all sorts to the beach, especially good for Bass. Towards the Marazion end of the beach the ground becomes a bit more [...]

This is a mark I have not fished. I understand you need to park on the road side and walk down to the cove. The best mark is apparently along the coastal path to the right hand side of the beach where you should find a group of flat rocks to fish from. The mark [...]

One of the most talked about fishing marks in West Cornwall and one I have fished a few times and intend kayak fishing next season. This is the location of the renowned Minack Theatre, carved from the granite! If you park in the beach car park and head out on the cliff path you will [...]

Head out of St Ives towards Lands End and follow your map to Pendeen Lighthouse for some great sea fishing. Park your car up and head off down to Portherris Beach or fish the rock marks underneath the light house. The typical rock species including Wrasse and Pollock are fished for and from the beach [...]

I get alot of people visiting the site looking for shore fishing marks and I am building a data base of shore marks here - sea fishing shore marks. I would like you to help me please in building a data base of shore marks around the UK. I have good knowledge of Devon, Cornwall [...]

There are alot of potential sea fishing marks around St. Ives. The seaward side of the Harbour wall can produce Gar fish and Mackerel, flatties and Bass can be caught. Pollock come in from the end nearest land, fishing over to the left. Porthmeor beach to the left, on the rocks is a good rock [...]

Recently I was writing about reconnaissance, ie checking marks out and looking for tell tale signs of where fish might be from reading the shoreline. Today I went to a local surf beach for a session on my surf board only to discover exactly what I had been talking about. I decided not to go [...]

“please welcome Glenn Kilpatrick who runs the runs the Whitby sea anglers website and the Whitby fishing forum” Fishing from the shoreline in the Whitby area can be broken down into 2 main categories of summer fishing and Winter fishing. In the summer months the mainstay of the catches are the summer species of flounder, [...]