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Discover sea fishing in Sopley Common, Dorset with fast access to Fisherman's Walk, Southbourne Beach and Boscombe Beach. Expect in season. Each mark lists distance from Sopley Common, terrain and methods so you can pick a venue that matches today’s tide and conditions.
9.1 miles from Sopley Common
A wide, sandy beach on the Studland side of the Poole Harbour entrance, just south of the chain ferry. Gentle bars with strong tidal run along the harbour channel create rips and seams that draw baitfish and bass. Best on a flooding tide at first/last light for bass; spring–autumn for...
9.6 miles from Sopley Common
Hamworthy Park is a sheltered, family-friendly harbour beach on the north side of the Hamworthy peninsula, offering easy, level access to shallow mud–sand flats and the adjacent channel within Poole Harbour. Fishing is most productive on the flooding tide and into dusk, when bass and mullet patrol the margins and...
9.9 miles from Sopley Common
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...