Our Guide to Popular Fishing Marks

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Parking - Next to a farmhouse, accessible 24/7.

Tides - Bigger tides create a strong run that can make holding bottom very difficult. However, it can be fished on most tides, making it a reliable venue throughout the year.

Winds - Fishing in strong head-on winds can be very dangerous due to swell washing onto the rocks and sessions should be avoided in these conditions.  

Parking -  along Creswell Road.

Tides - Fish 3 hours down, 2 hours up, tide sizes are best medium with lows of around 1.2m which leaves plenty of water in front of you and doesn't drain right out. 

Winds - Best weather to aim for on this mark is a nice south easterly swell over low.  

Parking - Rosedew Farm CF61 1PZ.

Tides - Low water medium to bigger tides.  (Cardiff scale 11.5m up to the biggest of the year generally bigger the better) 

Winds - Northerly is about most comfortable as it's over your back but anything is ok as long as it's not blowing a gale, Southerly being the worst as it's in the face, just be careful of wind speeds before going. 

 Parking - along Atlantic Trading Estate Road.

Tides -  Medium to big tides over low, over high water, the rock can be fished on medium tides max 14m but I would advise not to do it unless you are fully competent. Also phone the coastguard to inform them you are fishing over high just in case pedestrians phone in thinking you are stranded.

Winds - Best weather will be any northerly wind over high water, over low any wind other than a dreaded easterly.

 Parking - all along the front.

Tides - Best fished from low to high, or first 3 hours after low. Best on small and medium tides. 

Eastney beach is a 2 mile stretch of beach on the east coast of Portsmouth. It offers fairly shallow clean ground/sand and depending on the time of year it can cough up a wide range of fish, and the occasional monster.

Parking - Free parking, easy access for all.

Tides - Some parts of the breakwater can only be fished at certain stages of tide, with the very end having large boulders around it and can only be fished on a big tide over the high. The final third of the lower wall is best fished from an hour after high down to about 2 hours after low water. The back wall fishes best on the dropping tide but can also be good, fished right through on the smallest nip tides.