Ottery St Mary

Fishing Marks near Ottery St Mary

Last updated: 3 weeks ago

Sea fishing in Ottery St Mary, Devon puts you close to top marks like Sidmouth Beach, Jacobs Ladder Beach and Chit 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.

15 Marks Found

Otter Head

(6.5/10)

8.4 miles from Ottery St Mary

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...

Bass Pollack Pouting Bull Huss Mackerel

Otter Ledge

(6.6/10)

8.5 miles from Ottery St Mary

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...

Bass Pollack Pouting Mackerel Scad (Horse Mackerel)

Branscombe Beach

(7.3/10)

8.6 miles from Ottery St Mary

Long, steep shingle on the Jurassic Coast with mixed clean-to-rough ground and quick depth off the middle sections. Easy access from the National Trust car park at Branscombe Mouth; rockier ground at both ends towards Beer Head and Sidmouth holds wrasse and pollack. Summer brings dense shoals of mackerel, scad...

Bass Pollack Pouting Whiting Plaice

Budleigh Salterton

(6.9/10)

8.7 miles from Ottery St Mary

A long, steep shingle beach at the mouth of the River Otter with deep water close in. Clean-to-mixed ground along the central/western stretches and rougher, rocky patches toward Otter Head to the east. Productive on a flooding tide into dusk/dawn: summer brings mackerel, bass and garfish/scad; winter sees whiting and...

Bass Whiting Plaice Thornback Ray Lesser Spotted Dogfish

Hooken Cliffs

(6.5/10)

8.7 miles from Ottery St Mary

Hooken Cliffs is a rugged undercliff and boulder field between Beer Head and Branscombe in East Devon. The mark offers kelp-filled gullies, broken ground and patches of deeper water close in, fishing best in settled to moderate seas from late spring through autumn. It’s primarily a rough-ground, lure-and-bait rock mark...

Bass Pollack Pouting Whiting Mackerel

Beer Beach

(7.3/10)

9.1 miles from Ottery St Mary

Steep shingle cove beneath high cliffs on the Jurassic Coast. The centre of the beach is mostly clean, shelving quickly into useful depth, while both ends taper into rough ground and kelp-fringed rock ledges. Very good in clear, calm summer weather for pelagics; evenings and into darkness can be excellent....

Bass Pollack Pouting Whiting Lesser Spotted Dogfish