A small, sheltered point inside Poole Harbour by Rockley Park, offering mixed sand–mud ground with patches of rock and weed, shallow at low water with a defined channel close in. Best fished on the last two hours of the flood through high and into the first of the ebb. Winter...

Bass Whiting Flounder Dover Sole Undulate Ray

Lake Pier

(6.5/10)

19.5 miles from East Melbury

Lake Pier is a small wooden pier at Hamworthy on the western edge of Poole Harbour. It offers sheltered, easy-access fishing over predominantly muddy/silty ground with eelgrass and access to nearby channels. Best results are typically two hours either side of high water; at dead low the water is shallow....

Bass Flounder Dover Sole Starry Smoothhound Corkwing Wrasse

Hamworthy Park

(6.8/10)

20.0 miles from East Melbury

Hamworthy Park is a sheltered, family-friendly harbour beach on the north side of the Hamworthy peninsula, offering easy, level access to shallow mud–sand flats and the adjacent channel within Poole Harbour. Fishing is most productive on the flooding tide and into dusk, when bass and mullet patrol the margins and...

Bass Plaice Flounder Dover Sole European Eel