Booby’s Bay Fishing

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Booby’s Bay Fishing Map

A broad Atlantic-facing surf beach with rocky reefs and kelp gullies at both ends beneath Trevose Head. Best for bass in lively surf at dawn/dusk; summer brings mackerel and garfish close, while the reefs hold wrasse and pollack. On calmer, settled nights the sandy expanses can throw up small-eyed rays and the odd turbot. Access is via nearby car parks with a short walk over dunes; take care with strong swells, rip currents, slippery rocks and being cut off by the tide.

Ratings

⭐ 6.4/10 Overall
Catch Potential 6/10
Species Variety 7/10
Scenery & Comfort 9/10
Safety 4/10
Accessibility 7/10

Fish You Can Catch at Booby’s Bay

🐟 Bass 9/10
🎯 Tip: Surf beach; fish dawn/dusk on a flooding tide. Shallow diving plugs or sandeel/peeler crab in the gutters. Onshore blow with coloured water fishes best.
🐟 Ballan Wrasse 7/10
🎯 Tip: Rocky ends and gullies at mid-flood to HW. Use crab or limpet on strong gear; float or simple ledger. Summer-autumn.
🐟 Pollack 6/10
🎯 Tip: From reefy points into clear water at dusk to HW. Metal jigs/soft plastics or float-fished sandeel. Keep lures high to avoid kelp.
🐟 Small-eyed Ray 6/10
🎯 Tip: Calm surf nights on clean sand. Long cast sandeel/launce on pulley rigs; neap tides and after dusk best, late spring to autumn.
🐟 Lesser Spotted Dogfish 6/10
🎯 Tip: Evenings into darkness on the sandy beach. Small fish or squid baits on 2-hook flappers beyond the first breaker. Year-round, best spring-autumn.
🐟 Tompot Blenny 6/10
🎯 Tip: Mini-fish around rock pools and ledges. Size 12-16 hooks with small worm/shellfish baits; rising tide. Release carefully.
🐟 Mackerel 5/10
🎯 Tip: Summer shoals may push into the bay or off the points at dusk. Spinners/feathers; look for birds and clear water.
🐟 Weever Fish (Lesser) 5/10
🎯 Tip: On clean sand in summer, especially near LW. Small worm/squid strips on size 4-6 hooks; handle with care (spines).
🐟 Turbot 4/10
🎯 Tip: Occasional on the surf line in spring/early summer. Long cast sandeel on long snoods; fish shifting banks on a flooding tide.
🐟 Garfish 4/10
🎯 Tip: Off the rocky points on a flood in summer. Float-fished strips or small spinners worked high in the water at dawn/dusk.

Booby’s Bay Fishing

Summary

Booby’s Bay sits just north of Constantine Bay on Cornwall’s Atlantic coast, under the shoulder of Trevose Head. It’s an exposed surf beach with reefy fringes, shifting sandbars and tide-scoured gullies that create classic bass and flatfish ground, plus nearby rocks for wrasse and pollack. Scenic, wild and changeable, it rewards timing and good water-reading more than brute distance.

Location and Access

Access is straightforward via the Constantine/Treyarnon area, but the final approach is across dunes and soft sand, and the rockier corners involve short scrambles. At low water you can walk in over the beach; at higher tides use the coast path around the headlands.

Seasons

This is a seasonal, mobile-ground venue. Expect surf predators on pushing tides and rock species around the kelp-fringed points in settled water.

Methods

Match your approach to where you stand: surf tactics on the open beach and rock/kelp tactics on the points. Travel light and be ready to move with the water features.

Tides and Conditions

Booby’s fishes best when the tide and swell shape defined gutters and seams. Too much swell makes it unfishable; too little and it can feel lifeless on the open sand.

Safety

This is a high-energy Atlantic beach with mobile sand, powerful rips and slippery weeded rock. Plan around the tide and never assume yesterday’s safe path is still there today.

Facilities

Facilities are beach-holiday standard in season but sparse after hours. Plan bait and water beforehand.

Tips

Booby’s is all about reading the water. If you can identify the day’s best gutter, you’ll often only need a handful of well-placed casts.

Regulations

Angling is permitted, but this coastline falls within protected designations and seasonal beach management—know the rules before you go.