Fishing in Rivers Corner

18.1 miles from Rivers Corner

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...

18.9 miles from Rivers Corner

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....

19.4 miles from Rivers Corner

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;...

19.5 miles from Rivers Corner

Hamworthy Beach sits on the inner Poole Harbour shore, with easy parking and level access to a shingle/sand edge and adjacent harbour walls. Fishing is typically for harbour flatfish and mullet with light tackle, plus occasional bass and dogfish when tide run picks up; best results come from working the...

19.6 miles from Rivers Corner

Ringstead Bay is a long, shingle-and-pebble beach backed by cliffs between Osmington Mills and White Nothe. It offers mixed ground: clean sand and shingle in the central stretches with reefy, kelpy, and chalk ledges toward both ends. It fishes best on a flooding tide into dusk and after dark. Summer...

19.6 miles from Rivers Corner

Ringstead Ledges is a rough-ground shore mark of low limestone reefs and broken boulders at the east end of Ringstead Bay, fished from rock platforms and gullies close to deep water. Access is on foot from Ringstead (steep/uneven coastal paths and slippery rock at low water), with most anglers working...