Fishing in Woodgate

17.4 miles from Woodgate

A remote shingle/pebble beach beneath high cliffs on the Jurassic Coast between Sidmouth and Branscombe. The central stretch offers cleaner shingle with sand patches, while both ends run into rougher, snaggy ground and boulders. Best results typically come on a flooding tide into dusk and after dark. Summer sees mackerel,...

17.4 miles from Woodgate

A remote shingle cove on the Jurassic Coast below Salcombe Regis (east of Sidmouth). Mixed rough ground with boulders and kelp at both ends produces wrasse and pollack in summer; the open shingle sees mackerel and garfish in calm, clear weather, with pouting, rocklings and the odd whiting after dark....

17.4 miles from Woodgate

St Audries Bay is a mixed sand, shingle and broken-ground beach beneath high cliffs between Watchet and Kilve on the Somerset coast. It fishes best on the flood and the first of the ebb around medium to large tides, with fast currents typical of the Bristol Channel’s big tidal range....

17.4 miles from Woodgate

A snaggy, rock-and-shingle bay immediately east of Watchet with wave-cut platforms, kelp-filled gullies and broken ground. Best fished on the flood up to high and the first of the ebb; very strong Bristol Channel tides demand wired leads and robust tackle. After dark in autumn–winter it throws up plenty of...

17.4 miles from Woodgate

A mixed-ground Bristol Channel beach east of Watchet with flat rock shelves, shingle and muddy sand. The huge tidal range brings deep water close on springs; best fished the last two hours of the flood and first hour of the ebb, dropping baits into sandy gullies between the ledges. Snaggy...

17.5 miles from Woodgate

Steep shingle beach backed by a promenade on the Jurassic Coast. The western end (by Jacob’s Ladder/Chit Rocks) has rough, kelpy ground and shallow rock ledges; the central and eastern stretches are cleaner mixed ground with the River Sid entering at the far east. Summer sees mackerel, garfish and bass...