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Sea fishing in Exminster, Devon puts you close to top marks like Exmouth Beach, Dawlish Warren and Maer Rocks. 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.
9.0 miles from Exminster
A kelp-covered rock ledge on the red sandstone coast between Budleigh Salterton and Ladram Bay, dropping quickly into mixed rough ground with sand patches. Best in calm to moderate summer conditions on a flooding tide, with depth and tide run bringing fish tight to the ledge. Access is via the...
9.1 miles from Exminster
Otter Head is a red-sandstone headland just east of the River Otter mouth at Budleigh Salterton. It’s a classic rough-ground rock mark with kelp-filled gullies, broken reef and occasional sand patches. It fishes best on a flooding tide into dusk and after dark. Summer brings wrasse and pollack close to...
9.3 miles from Exminster
A long, shingle-over-sand open beach running north from the River Teign. Mostly clean ground with groynes and occasional gutters, suited to bait fishing and summer spinning. Best results on a flooding tide, especially the last few hours into high water; dawn and dusk are prime. Summer brings mackerel, scad and...
9.5 miles from Exminster
Ladram Bay is a red-sandstone rocky bay with sea stacks and ledges set between Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth. The ground is mixed rough and kelpy with pockets of cleaner water toward the bay mouth, making it ideal for wrasse, pollack and LRF species, with mackerel/garfish in summer and scad after...
9.8 miles from Exminster
A steep red-sandstone headland at Shaldon with deep water close in, kelp-lined gullies and rough ground. It fishes well on the flood through high water in calm to moderate seas, with summer sport on lures and floats and decent night fishing for minis and pout/scad. Avoid easterly swells and big...
