Playing Place

Fishing Marks near Playing Place

Last updated: 2 weeks ago

Sea fishing in Playing Place, Cornwall puts you close to top marks like Porthcurnick Beach, Portscatho and Pendower Beach. These spots regularly produce on moving tides. Use the list below to compare distance, access and recommended rigs, then time your session to the tide and wind.

34 Marks Found

Droskyn Point

(6.9/10)

8.9 miles from Playing Place

A prominent rocky headland on the west side of Perranporth Bay, offering mixed rough ground with kelp gullies and pockets that drop onto cleaner sand at range. It fishes best on a flooding tide into the first couple of hours of the ebb, especially around dawn or dusk when water...

Bass Pollack Pouting Lesser Spotted Dogfish Bull Huss

West Portholland

(6.9/10)

8.9 miles from Playing Place

Compact sandy cove on the Roseland with easy access from the hamlet and rocky headlands either side. The bottom is mixed sand, boulder and kelp, giving options for both bait and lure fishing. Wrasse and pollack dominate around the rough ground; mackerel and scad show in summer evenings; bass patrol...

Bass Pollack Pouting Lesser Spotted Dogfish Mackerel

Cligga Head

(6.7/10)

8.9 miles from Playing Place

A rugged granite headland between Perranporth and St Agnes with high cliffs and a handful of low rock ledges giving quick access to deep, kelpy water. It’s a classic North Cornwall rock mark: best on a flooding tide with clear to lightly coloured water. Summer to early autumn is prime...

Bass Pollack Pouting Whiting Bull Huss

East Portholland

(6.9/10)

9.1 miles from Playing Place

A compact south-coast cove with a small sandy beach flanked by kelpy rock ledges and a stream outflow. Easy access via the slip from the hamlet, but space is limited and much of the beach covers at higher stages of the tide. Mixed ground gives options: bait fish onto the...

Bass Pollack Pouting Whiting Mackerel

Durgan

(6.7/10)

9.2 miles from Playing Place

Sheltered mixed-ground mark on the north bank of the Helford estuary at the hamlet of Durgan. Fishing is from small shingle/sand coves and weed-fringed rocks into a steadily deepening tidal channel with moorings. Best on a flooding tide into dusk and the first of the ebb when bait and fry...

Bass Ballan Wrasse Corkwing Wrasse Rock Goby Shanny

Mawnan

(6.9/10)

9.3 miles from Playing Place

Rugged granite ledges around the Mawnan side of the Helford mouth (Rosemullion Head). Deep water close in over kelp and broken ground with tide run on the headland points; pockets of cleaner sand toward Maenporth. Very snaggy but productive: wrasse and pollack from the gullies, summer pelagics in clearer water,...

Bass Pollack Pouting Bull Huss Mackerel