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Sea fishing in Moulthaven, Devon puts you close to top marks like Salcombe North Sands, Salcombe South Sands and Bolt Head. 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.
6.3 miles from Moulthaven
Tidal rocky island off Bigbury-on-Sea with kelp-filled gullies, ledges and broken ground dropping onto sand. Strong tide run around headlands and a surfy causeway race make it a productive summer mark for wrasse, pollack, bass and mackerel; nights can produce pouting and conger from deeper holes. Access is via the...
6.3 miles from Moulthaven
A long, exposed shingle beach stretching between Start Point and the Dartmouth side of the bay (Slapton Sands/Torcross). Clean sand/shingle over a quick-shelving foreshore gives fast access to depth. Bass show after onshore blows; summer brings mackerel, scad and gurnards; nights produce dogfish, rays and the odd smoothhound; winter sees...
6.3 miles from Moulthaven
An exposed rocky headland beneath Start Point Lighthouse on the South Devon coast. Deep water is close in with strong tidal run along the headland, making it a classic lure and bottom-fishing mark. Best in calmer seas with a light to moderate swell and a flooding tide, especially at dawn...
6.3 miles from Moulthaven
Torcross is the southern end of Slapton Sands in Start Bay: a steep shingle beach with deep water close in. It fishes well year-round, with summer shoals of mackerel and scad, surf bass after onshore blows, and rays, dogfish and smoothhounds at night in settled weather. Winter brings whiting with...
6.5 miles from Moulthaven
Small south-facing sandy bay just west of Burgh Island with mixed clean sand and kelpy rocks on both flanks. Suits surf and light-rock fishing: bass patrol the gutters in a swell; the ledges produce wrasse, pollack and summer mackerel/garfish. Winter brings dogfish, pouting and rockling, with dabs and the odd...
7.0 miles from Moulthaven
A long exposed shingle beach in Start Bay backed by Slapton Ley. Mixed clean sand and shingle with deeper water close in on some tides; fishes year‑round. Best results typically come at night and on a flooding tide, with summer pelagics and mullet around the Torcross outflow and winter whiting...
