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Planning a session in Great Barrow, Dorset? Start with East Cliff Beach Bournemouth, Bournemouth Beach and Durley Chine. Switch between lures for summer shoals and ledger rigs over rough ground; the nearby marks below include distances, access notes and species tips.
9.0 miles from Great Barrow
A gently shelving sand-and-shingle beach backed by the Steamer Point Nature Reserve between Highcliffe Castle and Friars Cliff. You fish into mostly clean sand with patches of mixed ground and timber groynes. Best results are typically on a flooding tide into dusk and after dark. Summer brings shoals of mackerel,...
9.2 miles from Great Barrow
Shingle-and-sand beach directly below Highcliffe Castle on Christchurch Bay, with timber/rock groynes and patches of clay and rough ground between cleaner sand. It fishes best on a flooding tide into dusk and after dark, when surf gutters form along the bars. Summer brings bass in the surf, smoothhounds on peeler...
9.7 miles from Great Barrow
Highcliffe Beach is a shingle-and-sand surf beach backed by soft cliffs and groynes, facing Christchurch Bay with views to the Isle of Wight. It fishes best on a flooding tide, especially at dusk and after dark, with onshore SW winds pushing a lively surf that draws bass close. Summer offers...
10.0 miles from Great Barrow
A large, sheltered sandy bay on the Isle of Purbeck facing Poole Bay. Mostly clean sand with a gentle gradient, with occasional weed beds and rockier ground toward Old Harry Rocks and the South Haven entrance to Poole Harbour. Best fished at dawn/dusk or after dark outside the busy bathing...
