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Quick links: Bowleaze Cove · Bowleaze Pier · Overcombe · Preston Beach · Dragon's Teeth Abbotsbury · Osmington Mills

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Bowleaze Cove

(6.6/10)

10.5 miles from Nether Cerne

A mixed shingle-and-sand cove on the eastern side of Weymouth Bay with cleaner patches toward Overcombe and rockier, kelp-lined ground as you head east to Redcliff Point. Easy access from nearby car parks and amenities makes it a convenient all-round shore mark. Best results often come on a flooding tide...

Bass Pouting Whiting Plaice Dover Sole

Bowleaze Pier

(7.1/10)

10.5 miles from Nether Cerne

Despite the name, Bowleaze Pier is a rocky ledge (often called Folly Pier) on the eastern side of Bowleaze Cove near Weymouth. It’s mixed rough ground with kelp gullies and nearby sand patches, fishing best from mid-tide up, especially around dusk in summer and early autumn. Expect wrasse and pollack...

Bass Pollack Pouting Whiting Plaice

Overcombe

(7.3/10)

10.6 miles from Nether Cerne

Overcombe is the eastern end of Weymouth Bay in Dorset, a gently shelving shingle/sand beach by the River Jordan outflow. Clean ground with occasional sandbars makes it a reliable venue for surf bass and a good mix of flatfish; summer brings mackerel, garfish and scad, while winter nights see whiting...

Bass Whiting Plaice Flounder Dover Sole

Preston Beach

(6.8/10)

10.8 miles from Nether Cerne

A long shingle-and-pebble beach on the eastern side of Weymouth Bay between Greenhill and Overcombe. Clean sand at range with shallow gradient and occasional weed beds; fishes best on the flood into dusk and at night. Summer brings mackerel, garfish and bass, with plaice and sole over the clean ground;...

Bass Whiting Plaice Flounder Dab

Dragon's Teeth Abbotsbury

(7/10)

10.9 miles from Nether Cerne

A classic Chesil shingle beach mark by the WWII ‘dragon’s teeth’ at Abbotsbury. Steep shingle with deep water close in over clean sand/shingle. Summer brings mackerel, scad and garfish (dusk into night); winter nights are reliable for whiting, pouting and dogfish. Occasional smoothhound and small‑eyed rays show on crab or...

Bass Pouting Whiting Plaice Dover Sole

Osmington Mills

(7/10)

11.2 miles from Nether Cerne

Classic Jurassic Coast rock ledges and boulder ground beneath the village and Smugglers Inn. Mixed rough ground with kelp-filled gullies and patches of broken shell/sand make this a reliable summer-to-autumn rock mark. Expect wrasse and pollack by day in clear water, with mackerel, garfish and scad moving through at dusk;...

Bass Pollack Lesser Spotted Dogfish Mackerel Scad (Horse Mackerel)