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Quick links: Evening Hill · Branksome Chine · Sandbanks Beach · Alum Chine · Sandbanks Ferry Slipway · Baiter Park

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Evening Hill

(6.4/10)

0.6 miles from Canford Cliffs

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...

Bass Flounder Dover Sole Common Goby Two-spotted Goby

Branksome Chine

(6.8/10)

0.9 miles from Canford Cliffs

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...

Bass Whiting Plaice Dab Dover Sole

Sandbanks Beach

(6.9/10)

1.4 miles from Canford Cliffs

A long, gently shelving sandy beach on the Poole Bay side of the Sandbanks peninsula. Clear, clean ground with occasional shallow gutters and rips; strongest tides are toward the harbour entrance. Best results at dawn/dusk and into darkness, especially on a flooding tide with a light surf. Summer-autumn see bass,...

Bass Whiting Plaice Flounder Dab

Alum Chine

(6.9/10)

1.5 miles from Canford Cliffs

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....

Bass Whiting Plaice Dab Dover Sole

Sandbanks Ferry Slipway

(6.5/10)

1.7 miles from Canford Cliffs

A busy harbour‑mouth slip next to the Sandbanks chain ferry on the Poole side. The mark gives access to a deep, fast tidal channel with a mostly clean sand/shell bottom and strong rips and eddies along the walls and adjacent beach. Summer brings shoals of mackerel, garfish and scad, with...

Bass Plaice Flounder Smoothhound Mackerel

Baiter Park

(6.5/10)

1.8 miles from Canford Cliffs

A flat, easily accessed harbour shoreline inside Poole Harbour with firm paths, slipways and patches of shingle over mud and sand. Shallow for long distances at low water, with gullies and channel edges that fish best on the flood and around high tide. Classic winter flounder venue and a reliable...

Bass Plaice Flounder Dover Sole Starry Smoothhound