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Planning a session in Alum Chine, Dorset? Start with Alum Chine, Branksome Chine and Durley Chine. Switch between lures for summer shoals and ledger rigs over rough ground; the nearby marks below include distances, access notes and species tips.
0.4 miles from Alum Chine
Alum Chine is a wide, sandy section of Bournemouth’s Poole Bay between Durley and Branksome Chines. It’s a clean-ground beach backed by a promenade and wooden groynes, with easy, year-round access and facilities close by. Fishing is best on a flooding tide into and after dusk when bathers thin out....
0.6 miles from Alum Chine
A long, gently shelving sandy beach between Bournemouth and Sandbanks, centered on the Branksome Chine stream outflow. Groynes create gutters and bars that hold fish, with surf and coloured water after a westerly blow suiting bass. Summer evenings bring mackerel, scad and garfish; nights produce dogfish and the odd ray...
0.7 miles from Alum Chine
Durley Chine is a wide, sandy beach on Poole Bay between Bournemouth Pier and Alum Chine. It’s mostly clean sand with wooden groynes and a gentle gradient, making it ideal for standard beach gear and long casts. Best results come on the flooding tide into dusk and after dark, especially...
1.2 miles from Alum Chine
Long, gently shelving sandy beach along Poole Bay backed by a promenade and groynes, with Bournemouth and Boscombe piers nearby. Clear, clean ground suits surf species; look for gutters and the edges of sandbars. Best results come at dawn/dusk or after dark, especially on a flooding tide and when a...
1.8 miles from Alum Chine
A long, gently shelving sandy beach below the East Cliff between Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers. Clean sand with timber groynes and shifting gutters/bars; fish it on a flooding tide at dusk or after dark once bathers thin out. Plaice show in spring, bass and smoothhounds arrive late spring–summer on crab,...
1.9 miles from Alum Chine
Evening Hill is a sheltered Poole Harbour shoreline/sea wall with easy roadside access and views across to Brownsea Island. It’s a shallow, mud-and-sand flat with weed fringes and nearby channel edges that come within casting range on the flood. Classic winter flounder fishing, with school bass and mullet through the...
