Fishing in East Wittering

0.3 miles from East Wittering

A broad shingle-and-sand beach close to village parking and facilities, East Wittering is an easy-going open-coast mark with clean ground for long casts, changing banks and gullies, and the best sport around dusk, dawn and a moving tide.

0.3 miles from East Wittering

Bracklesham Bay is a long, open shingle-and-sand beach with groynes, shallow gutters and occasional deeper tidal channels. Roadside and beach-car-park access is straightforward at several points, making it a popular, family-friendly shore venue; fishing is generally best around a flooding tide and into darkness, with summer producing the widest range...

2.3 miles from East Wittering

A broad, open sandy beach at the mouth of Chichester Harbour, reached from the large beach car parks and then by a walk across the sand. It is a classic tidal surf-and-gully venue: bass and flatfish feature close in, with rays and smoothhounds possible in warmer months, while winter sessions...

2.3 miles from East Wittering

Ella Nore is an exposed, tide-dependent rocky reef mark on the Selsey frontage, reached on foot from nearby coastal parking and best approached around low water to identify the ledges and gullies. It fishes as a mixed rough-and-clean-ground venue: summer brings bream, bass and pelagic fish close in, while the...

2.6 miles from East Wittering

East Head is a wide, sandy spit at the mouth of Chichester Harbour, reached on foot from West Wittering/East Head parking and along the beach. It is principally a clean-ground, tide-led bass and flatfish mark, with harbour-mouth channels, moving water and summer surface activity; the exposed tip fishes best for...

3.0 miles from East Wittering

Itchenor is a sheltered, tidal Chichester Harbour estuary mark, fished from limited public foreshore and around the village hard rather than an open beach. It is best for light estuary tactics on a flooding or ebbing tide, with bass, flounder and mullet the main interest; space is restricted, boat traffic...