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Discover sea fishing in Jumpers Common, Dorset with fast access to Southbourne Beach, Fisherman's Walk and Boscombe Beach. Expect in season. Each mark lists distance from Jumpers Common, terrain and methods so you can pick a venue that matches today’s tide and conditions.
2.8 miles from Jumpers Common
A long rock breakwater at the seaward end of Hengistbury Head, forming the mouth of Christchurch Harbour (the Run). Deep water is close in with a strong tidal stream and mixed ground of boulders and adjacent clean sand. It fishes well for summer pelagics (mackerel, garfish, scad) and produces bass...
2.9 miles from Jumpers Common
A gently shelving sandy/shingle beach in Christchurch Bay between Friars Cliff and Mudeford Quay. Avon Beach offers easy access, parking and facilities, making it popular. Fishing is best on a flooding tide into dusk and after dark when anglers can reach the outer sand bars. Expect winter whiting and dogfish,...
3.1 miles from Jumpers Common
A long rock-and-concrete breakwater projecting from Hengistbury Head into fast, clean water. It offers quick depth, strong tide run, and mixed sand/reef ground, making it a prolific summer feathering and lure mark with year-round bait potential. Expect shoals (mackerel/scad/garfish) on the flood, wrasse and scorpions tight to the rocks, and...
3.1 miles from Jumpers Common
An open, gently shelving sand-and-shingle beach with timber groynes on the Christchurch Bay shoreline. Easy, family-friendly access via the promenade and nearby car parks makes it a straightforward shore mark. Fish the scoured gutters between groynes and beyond the outer bar; best results are typically at dusk into dark and...
3.3 miles from Jumpers Common
A gently shelving sand-and-shingle beach backed by the Steamer Point Nature Reserve between Highcliffe Castle and Friars Cliff. You fish into mostly clean sand with patches of mixed ground and timber groynes. Best results are typically on a flooding tide into dusk and after dark. Summer brings shoals of mackerel,...
3.5 miles from Jumpers Common
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,...
