Last updated: 3 weeks ago
Planning a session in Gypshayes, Dorset? Start with Dancing Ledge, Seacombe and Winspit. Switch between lures for summer shoals and ledger rigs over rough ground; the nearby marks below include distances, access notes and species tips.
5.7 miles from Gypshayes
Kimmeridge Bay is a reef and ledge venue of flat rock platforms, kelp beds and gullies, with clear water and a gentle slope into deeper ground toward the bay mouth. It fishes best on a flooding tide, at dawn/dusk, and through the summer into early autumn when baitfish and predators...
5.7 miles from Gypshayes
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...
6.1 miles from Gypshayes
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,...
6.3 miles from Gypshayes
A remote rock ledge on the Kimmeridge Ledges within the Lulworth Firing Ranges. Broad Bench offers deep kelpy gullies and tide run close in, producing best from late spring to autumn. Expect quality wrasse, lure-caught bass and pollack, with summer mackerel and garfish; after dark, conger and pouting from the...
7.0 miles from Gypshayes
A broad, steeply shelving shingle-and-sand beach inside the Lulworth Ranges (open limited days). Clean sand dominates the middle of the bay, with mixed/rough ground and kelp around the flanks near Worbarrow Tout and the eastern rocks. Reasonably deep water for a bay and a useful push on spring tides. Best...
7.1 miles from Gypshayes
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...