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Sea fishing in Twelve Heads, Cornwall puts you close to top marks like Porthtowan Beach, Chapel Porth and Trevaunance Cove. 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.
8.8 miles from Twelve Heads
A long, south-facing sandy beach in Gerrans Bay on the Roseland Peninsula, merging with Carne Beach at low tide. Clean sand with shifting bars and gullies, plus rocky fringes at either end. A reliable surf mark for bass and flatfish; dogfish and rays over the cleaner ground; summer mackerel, garfish...
9.0 miles from Twelve Heads
Secluded south-coast Roseland cove with a clean sandy middle and rocky, kelp-lined ends. Fishable through the tide but best at dusk into night on a flooding tide. The sand offers chances for bass, dogfish and occasional rays, while the rocks/gullies hold wrasse and pollack; summer can see mackerel, garfish and...
9.1 miles from Twelve Heads
An east-facing sandy beach on the Roseland Peninsula with rocky fringes at both ends and clear water. Sheltered from prevailing south-westerlies but exposed to easterlies; a gentle slope over clean sand with patches of weed and gullies. Best on a flooding tide into dusk. Summer brings mackerel, garfish and scad...
9.1 miles from Twelve Heads
A south-facing sandy beach on the Roseland Peninsula, backed by dunes and the Nare Hotel, with clean sand channels and rocky patches at either end. Fish the flooding tide, especially at dusk or into darkness; daylight favors scratching for flats at range while the rocky points hold wrasse and pollack....
9.2 miles from Twelve Heads
Rosemullion Head is a rocky headland on the north side of the Helford entrance, offering kelp-lined gullies, ledges and patches of clean sand in clear, relatively deep water. It fishes best on the flood into dusk through summer and early autumn, with wrasse and pollack tight to the rough ground...
9.4 miles from Twelve Heads
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...
