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Discover sea fishing in Pool and Illogan, Cornwall with fast access to Portreath Beach, Basset’s Cove and Portreath Harbour Breakwater. Expect in season. Each mark lists distance from Pool and Illogan, terrain and methods so you can pick a venue that matches today’s tide and conditions.
9.4 miles from Pool and Illogan
A rocky headland between Porthmeor and Porthgwidden with easy parking on top of The Island and multiple ledges giving access to relatively deep, kelpy water on the seaward side. Wrasse, gobies and blennies are dependable year-round in the gullies; summer brings mackerel, garfish and scad, with pollack and the odd...
9.6 miles from Pool and Illogan
A wide Atlantic-facing surf beach backed by dunes and cliffs, with shifting sandbars, gutters and a small river entering at the northern end. Fish the flooding tide into dusk or first light, working the white water along bar edges and channel mouths. Summer and early autumn produce bass, small-eyed rays...
9.6 miles from Pool and Illogan
North-facing Atlantic surf beach in St Ives with clean sand and rocky headlands at both ends (The Island to the east, Clodgy/Man’s Head to the west). Bass patrol the surf gutters and rips; summer brings mackerel, garfish and scad close in, while the rocks at either end hold wrasse and...
