Plaice Fishing in Dorset

Spring to early summer; long casts onto clean sand with rag/lug tipped with squid. Daylight, flooding tide in calm, clear water.

Spring–early summer; daylight over clean sand. Long snoods with beads, lug/rag tipped with squid. Cast 60–100m to sandbars. Best on a flooding tide into high water.

Spring days with clear, calm seas; long casts with blinged rigs and lug/rag/sandeel; small, neat baits find the flats.

Mar–May; daylight, long casts 80–120m to clean sand; ragworm tipped with squid, beads/spoons help; neap tides fish steady.

Clean ground off the Chesil side; long casts with rolling lead, beads and rag/lug or squid tip. Best spring to early summer on the flood.

Mar-May and early autumn; long cast with blinged flappers, rag/lug tipped with squid. Daylight on neaps over cleaner patches.

Spring to early summer; long casts over clean sand between groynes with ragworm/peeler and bead attractors; fish the flood and first of the ebb.

Spring on bright days; long casts on clean sand with bead rigs, lug/rag tipped with squid. Best on the flood.

Spring–early summer by day. Long snoods with beads/spoons; rag/lug tipped with squid. Cast 60–120 yd to clean sand; gentle tides fish best.

Spring to early summer; long cast lug/razor/sandeel to outer sand bars. Clipped rigs, small hooks, clearer water and neaps help.

Clean sand; long casts with blinged rigs and worm/squid strips. Best March–June and early autumn on the flood. Keep baits static and fresh.

Rag/lug cocktail or rag tipped with squid to clean sand beyond weed beds on the flood in spring; long snoods, small beads, slow lift-and-drag retrieve.

Daylight, spring-early summer. Long cast lug/rag tipped with squid onto clean sand; beads/spoons help. Aim beyond the first sandbar from the beaches on a steady flood.

Spring/early summer favours plaice; use long traces with small spoons/beads and rag/lug. Aim for clean sand gutters.

Mar–Aug on clean sand. Long casts with bead/bling flappers and lug/rag/shellfish. Bright days and a flooding tide work well.

Spring/autumn on clean sand. Long casts with attractor beads, rag/lug tipped with squid; best in daylight on neap tides.

Mar–Jun; long cast lug/rag tipped with squid onto clean patches east of the groyne. Beads/bling and long snoods help; gentle flood and clear water.

March–May in calm, clear seas; long casts with blinged rigs and rag tipped with squid. Daylight on the flood.

March-May; long cast with blinged rigs and lug, rag or sandeel; clear water and gentle seas; fish the daylight flood.

Feb–May run. Long casts (80–120 yds) with lug, rag or sandeel; add beads or spoons. Best on bright days with a gentle flood.

Spring to early summer; long casts over clean sand; lug/rag or razor/squid cocktail on blinged flappers; daylight on a rising tide.

Mar–Jun; long cast rag/lug or worm/squid cocktail to clean patches and sandbars. Daylight on neaps or first of the flood.

Ledger peeler crab or rag on a flowing tide; aim for cleaner patches at the wall’s base and channel edges.

Mar–May on daytime floods; long-cast rag/black lug with beads over clean sand. Slow retrieve to search gully edges.

Spring/early summer on clean sand; long traces with beads/spoons and ragworm or crab can improve takes on slower drifts.