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Sea fishing in Croyde, Devon puts you close to top marks like Croyde Bay, Downend Point and Putsborough Sands. 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.
5.1 miles from Croyde
Expansive sand and shingle fronted by the Pebble Ridge with the Skern estuary on the landward side. Productive in a surf for bass and summer smoothhounds, with small-eyed and spotted rays on settled evenings. The Skern channels hold thin-lipped mullet and flounder. Best on a flooding tide into dusk; target...
5.3 miles from Croyde
A compact, rocky cove between Ilfracombe and Woolacombe with kelp-filled gullies, ledges and a small pocket beach. Access is via the village of Lee with a short walk from the car park; some scrambling is needed to reach the outer rocks. Best results come on a flooding tide into mid-to-high...
5.5 miles from Croyde
Wide west-facing surf beach backed by the Northam Burrows pebble ridge on Bideford Bay. Shallow, shifting sandbars create gutters that hold fish on the flood and first of the ebb. Best results at dusk or after dark on a rising tide; target the first and second gutters and any rip...
7.1 miles from Croyde
Wildersmouth Beach is a small mixed sand-and-pebble cove in Ilfracombe, North Devon, flanked by reefy ground from Capstone and the Landmark side. It offers short-range rough-ground fishing with kelp gullies and patches of clean sand. Best results are on a flooding tide into dusk and after dark. Summer brings mackerel,...
7.2 miles from Croyde
Rock ledges around Capstone Hill on the seaward side of Ilfracombe, giving quick access to deep, kelpy water and a strong tidal run near the harbour mouth. Productive on flooding and ebbing tides, especially at dusk and after dark. Summer and early autumn bring mackerel, garfish and scad to lures...
7.4 miles from Croyde
A small, sheltered cove on the east side of Ilfracombe Harbour with mixed ground: clean sand in the centre and kelpy, boulder-strewn ledges around the sides. The rocks give excellent LRF opportunities for blennies, gobies and wrasse, while summer brings mackerel, scad and garfish into the cove on the flood....
