Fishing in Lock's Common

0.4 miles from Lock's Common

Rest Bay is a wide, clean sandy surf beach on the north side of Porthcawl with easy access from the promenade and car parks; anglers typically fish from the open beach with long casts into the surf gutters and occasional deeper channels, with best sport around a flooding tide and...

0.8 miles from Lock's Common

Rest Bay Point is the rocky headland at the western end of Rest Bay, Porthcawl, giving access to mixed rough ground with kelp and ledges dropping into sandier patches. You can fish from the rocks at low to mid water and into deeper water as the tide fills, with short...

1.0 miles from Lock's Common

Pink Bay is a small, sheltered sandy bay on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast with low cliffs and scattered rock at the edges. Access is on foot via coastal paths and short steep steps/scramble in places, so travel light. It fishes as a mixed beach/rock mark: clean sand in the middle...

1.2 miles from Lock's Common

Porthcawl Harbour Wall is a long stone/concrete outer harbour arm giving elevated fishing into the harbour mouth and adjacent Bristol Channel tide run. Access is straightforward on foot from the harbour area along the wall, with typical fishing being medium-range casting for mixed ground—cleaner sand patches for flatfish and rays,...

1.2 miles from Lock's Common

Coney Beach (Porthcawl) is a long, open sandy beach on the Bristol Channel with easy promenade access and plenty of room to spread out. Fishing is mainly clean-ground surf casting for flatfish, rays and hounds, with best sport around the deeper runs and gutters on a making tide; it can...

1.3 miles from Lock's Common

Porthcawl Harbour is a small tidal harbour with easy access along the promenade and harbour walls, offering mainly close-range fishing into the channel, harbour mouth and adjacent scoured sand. Expect mixed sport: float-fishing and light ledgering inside for mullet and bass on the flood, and heavier work near the entrance...