Fishing in West Hill

0.4 miles from West Hill

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...

0.5 miles from West Hill

Long, gently shelving sandy beach along Poole Bay backed by a promenade and groynes, with Bournemouth and Boscombe piers nearby. Clear, clean ground suits surf species; look for gutters and the edges of sandbars. Best results come at dawn/dusk or after dark, especially on a flooding tide and when a...

1.0 miles from West Hill

A long, gently shelving sandy beach below the East Cliff between Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers. Clean sand with timber groynes and shifting gutters/bars; fish it on a flooding tide at dusk or after dark once bathers thin out. Plaice show in spring, bass and smoothhounds arrive late spring–summer on crab,...

1.2 miles from West Hill

Alum Chine is a steep-sided wooded chine cutting down to Bournemouth’s sandy beach, with fishing mainly from the open beach and occasional rougher patches near the chine/outfalls. Access is easy via the promenade and zig-zag paths from the clifftop, and the mark fishes as a classic surf-beach venue: clean sand,...

1.3 miles from West Hill

A long, gently shelving sandy beach between Bournemouth and Sandbanks, centered on the Branksome Chine stream outflow. Groynes create gutters and bars that hold fish, with surf and coloured water after a westerly blow suiting bass. Summer evenings bring mackerel, scad and garfish; nights produce dogfish and the odd ray...

1.8 miles from West Hill

Canford Cliffs is a steep-sided stretch of Poole Bay where anglers fish from the shingle/sand at the foot of cliffs, accessed via zig-zag paths and steps from the clifftop (check tides and your return route). It’s mainly a clean-ish bay mark with occasional rougher patches and weed, best for mixed...