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Quick links: Ella Nore · West Wittering Beach · East Head · East Wittering Beach · Thorney Island · Sandy Point

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Marks near West Wittering

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47 Marks Found

Ella Nore

(6/10)

0.7 miles from West 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...

Bass Pollack Pouting Thornback Ray Lesser Spotted Dogfish

West Wittering Beach

(7.2/10)

0.8 miles from West 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...

Bass Whiting Plaice Flounder Dab

East Head

(6.2/10)

0.9 miles from West 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...

Bass Whiting Plaice Flounder Dover Sole

East Wittering Beach

(6.7/10)

1.5 miles from West 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.

Bass Pouting Whiting Plaice Thornback Ray

Thorney Island

(6/10)

1.9 miles from West Wittering

A tidal Chichester Harbour shore mark around the Thorney Island foreshore, fished from firm mud-and-shingle margins and channel edges rather than an open beach. It can produce good summer sport for bass, bream, mullet, smoothhounds and rays, with flounder and whiting more typical in cooler months; access crosses or borders...

Bass Whiting Plaice Flounder Thornback Ray

Sandy Point

(6.4/10)

1.9 miles from West Wittering

Sandy Point is a sandy-shingle shore mark at the south-east tip of Hayling Island, with open water and a generally clean casting area that fishes best around the flood and high water. Access is on foot from the Sandy Point/East Winner area, with parking and estate restrictions requiring consideration; it...

Bass Plaice Flounder Dover Sole Thornback Ray