Muscliffe

7.4 miles from Muscliffe

Highcliffe Beach is a shingle-and-sand surf beach backed by soft cliffs and groynes, facing Christchurch Bay with views to the Isle of Wight. It fishes best on a flooding tide, especially at dusk and after dark, with onshore SW winds pushing a lively surf that draws bass close. Summer offers...

7.8 miles from Muscliffe

Shingle-and-sand beach where the Chewton Bunny stream meets Christchurch Bay, on the east side of Highcliffe. The stream mouth creates gutters and a colour line that regularly draws baitfish and bass; nearby ground is mostly clean with patches of small stones between timber groynes. Best on a flooding tide, especially...

7.8 miles from Muscliffe

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....

8.0 miles from Muscliffe

A large, sheltered sandy bay on the Isle of Purbeck facing Poole Bay. Mostly clean sand with a gentle gradient, with occasional weed beds and rockier ground toward Old Harry Rocks and the South Haven entrance to Poole Harbour. Best fished at dawn/dusk or after dark outside the busy bathing...

8.2 miles from Muscliffe

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...

8.5 miles from Muscliffe

A long, gently shelving sandy beach in Studland Bay with clean sand and nearby seagrass beds. Productive across flooding tides, especially at dusk and into dark. Best for flatfish with bass in onshore surf, winter whiting, and summer mackerel/garfish; occasional rays and smoothhound. Easy access and facilities via National Trust...