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Sea fishing in Towans, Upton, Cornwall puts you close to top marks like Upton Towans, Mexico Towans and Gwithian 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.
9.2 miles from Towans, Upton
Long seafront sea wall with easy access and mixed ground: clean sand and shingle in front of the Prom, with rougher, kelpy ground and boulders around Battery Rocks by Jubilee Pool. Productive in summer evenings for shoaling fish, with winter action for small bottom species. Best 2 hours before and...
9.4 miles from Towans, Upton
Exposed Atlantic-facing sandy cove backed by high cliffs, with rocky platforms and kelp-filled gullies on both flanks. Best fished on a flooding or ebbing tide in calmer windows after a blow. The surf can produce bass from the beach, while the adjacent rocks yield wrasse and pollack; occasional rays and...
9.5 miles from Towans, Upton
Remote, steep-sided rocky cove on Cornwall’s exposed north coast between Zennor Head and Gurnard’s Head. Fishing is from boulders and low rock platforms over kelp-filled gullies and mixed rough ground that drops quickly into deep water. Best in settled to moderate swell, especially around dawn/dusk and into darkness from late...
9.6 miles from Towans, Upton
An exposed granite pier guarding Porthleven Harbour with quick access to deep, kelpy water in the harbour mouth. Summer shoals of mackerel and scad pass close, while wrasse and pollack patrol the walls and rough ground. After dark, pouting, poor cod and the odd conger show. Best on settled seas...
9.8 miles from Towans, Upton
An exposed shingle-and-sand surf beach immediately east of Porthleven Harbour. It shelves quickly and forms shifting gutters and bars that hold fish on flooding and ebbing tides. Summer brings bass, mackerel and garfish close in; autumn–winter sees whiting and dogfish. Night sessions produce flatfish (sole, plaice, dab). Powerful Atlantic swell,...
