Fishing in Colwell

0.4 miles from Colwell

Colwell Bay is a sheltered, gently shelving sand-and-shingle beach on the north-west Isle of Wight, with easy promenade and beach access plus occasional groynes and firmer patches to target. It is mainly a summer light-tackle venue for bass, mullet, mackerel and garfish, while evening or cooler-season fishing can produce flatfish,...

0.7 miles from Colwell

Totland Bay is a broad, gently shelving shingle-and-sand beach with groynes and more broken, rocky ground toward the bay’s ends. It is an easy daytime venue for float, spinning and light ledgering, while evening and night sessions over the cleaner ground can produce rays, smoothhound and dogfish; fish the margins...

0.7 miles from Colwell

Fort Albert is a tidal rock-and-shingle Solent shore mark beside the former fort, best approached on foot via the public foreshore/coastal path rather than through private fort grounds. It offers close-range fishing around weed, stone and small gullies for bass and flatfish, with summer float or lure chances for mackerel...

1.2 miles from Colwell

Sconce Point is a rocky, shingle-fringed Solent headland west of Yarmouth, reached on foot from the Fort Victoria/Country Park side via coastal paths and uneven foreshore. It is a tide-led mark with broken ground, ledges and some cleaner patches: good for summer predators and wrasse close in, with rays, smoothhound...

1.3 miles from Colwell

A shingle-and-mixed-ground Solent mark beside Fort Victoria Country Park, fished from the beach and firmer foreshore around the old coastal defences. Parking is close, followed by a short walk, and the relatively sheltered water suits tide-led sessions for flatfish, bass and rays, with summer pelagics within casting range at times.

1.4 miles from Colwell

Hurst Point is a remote, exposed shingle spit at the western entrance to the Solent, reached by a long walk from Milford on Sea or by ferry to Hurst Castle. Anglers fish the shingle and hard edges around the castle area into deep, fast-running water; it can produce well on...