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Planning a session in Swanage, New, Dorset? Start with Swanage Beach, Swanage Pier and Banjo Pier. Switch between lures for summer shoals and ledger rigs over rough ground; the nearby marks below include distances, access notes and species tips.
7.1 miles from Swanage, New
Durley Chine is a wide, sandy beach on Poole Bay between Bournemouth Pier and Alum Chine. It’s mostly clean sand with wooden groynes and a gentle gradient, making it ideal for standard beach gear and long casts. Best results come on the flooding tide into dusk and after dark, especially...
7.3 miles from Swanage, New
An extensive system of flat limestone reefs and kelp-filled gullies on the south-facing Jurassic Coast. The ledges provide mixed rough ground with pockets of sand and shallow-to-moderate depth, ideal for wrasse and light-rock fishing in settled, clear water from spring through autumn. Bass and pollack patrol the flooding tide and...
7.3 miles from Swanage, New
A series of flat limestone ledges beneath Clavell Tower at Kimmeridge Bay, offering clear water, kelp-filled gullies and quick access to deeper channels on a flooding tide; best in settled weather from late spring to autumn, with productive lure and float fishing but beware swell, slippery weed and rockfall from...
7.4 miles from Swanage, New
A classic Purbeck rock mark of wave-cut limestone ledges and kelp-filled gullies under Hen Cliff near Kimmeridge. It offers quick access to 3–10 m of water over very rough ground and fishes best from late spring to autumn. Daylight floods and dusk are prime for wrasse and pollack; summer evenings...
7.4 miles from Swanage, New
Kimmeridge Bay is a reef and ledge venue of flat rock platforms, kelp beds and gullies, with clear water and a gentle slope into deeper ground toward the bay mouth. It fishes best on a flooding tide, at dawn/dusk, and through the summer into early autumn when baitfish and predators...
7.5 miles from Swanage, New
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...
