Kent fishing marks in detail

[dover squidy]

DUNGENESS

The hallowed waters of Dungeness attract anglers all year round from near, far and further!

The season really kicks off in October but the codling can show in numbers from the big tides of September if accompanied by SW winds and colour in the water.

The best of the codling run is usually over by Christmas, but good fishing can be had through to April if conditions are right. By "conditions" we mean coloured seas and SW storms.

Late December/January sees the influx of Dabs which can be of dinner plate size and 1lb fish are not exceptional.

February and March, if the seas are calm can see dabs and rockling in record numbers, with fishing tailing off as the weeks progress.

April can see the last of the cod and the first of the bass. Late March/April can see some superb Bass fishing as the spring run comes through. When they are there they are there, if they aren't!

May/June are the quiet months with the chance of a bass, doggie, dab.

July - August can see huge shoals of Mackerel pushing whitebait right onto the beach. Good numbers of Gars as well and underneath them all can be some very good bass. A live bait under your feet at night when the water is clear is deadly, as can be the head and guts of a mackerel. Good sole can be had to small hooks and worm baits.
That being said, monster sole can show up right through the winter, with many a personal best sole being found impaled on a 4/0 Pennell rig loaded with lug and squid intended for a winter cod and a 15lb cod was caught in August 2009 on a Bluey bait intended for bass!

At Dungie, if you've a bait in the water, you can never really be sure what may come along next!

There are 4 main areas at Dunge, the boats, the point, the boards, the power station and anywhere in between.
It gets very busy at weekends. Travel light and get away from the crowds, it will pay off.

Parking. For the boats....Drive over the miniature railway towards lighthouse, on your left you will pass the lifeboat station, carry on to the 1st big lay bye on your right (@600yds). Park here. Opposite is a concrete road that leads to the boats and beach.

For the point....you can do as above, but follow the concrete road to the end, At the end, cross left for the beach and then walk right, Look at the new lighthouse and line up the new lighthouse with the old, which is a short distance behind. You are now on the Point.

For the boards.... carry on driving round and past the new lighthouse and park on your right in the parking area ( the Britannia pub will be in front of you) You will see the boards behind you. follow to reach the beach.

For the power station... carry on driving past the pub to the end of the road. Park up. You will see a concrete road leading left alongside the power station wall towards the beach, walk along this road, you will come to a huge shingle bank in front of you. I suggest that if you take this option, climb the shingle bank at the first R/H bend on the concrete road.

GROUND
The boats...ground is relatively clean sand.
The point....Can be a bit of a tackle graveyard. A 100yd cast at L/W will put you in very deep water, an area they call the dustbin. This area is not for the novice angler.
The boards... Again the ground is pretty clean, with no real probs.
The power station... Again fairly clean ground.
There is a fair depth of water all over, Apart from left of the boats, and there is a strong tide run especially at the point. Runs R/L on the up.
3hrs either side of low water are in my opinion the 'hot times' to fish, but to be fair you can catch at any time.

No need for huge casts to contact the fish. Most of the time 30yds to 100yds or so will be ok.
2/3 hook flappers or Pennell/pulley rigs for the bigger fish. Breakout leads in various sizes are required, Occasionally nose grip leads are required.

Fresh black lug is 'king' at dunge.
At present, its mostly Whiting being caught, with a few Codling mixed in and a few Pout. At night you will be plagued by Whiting..... unless the cod have arrived in force and pushed them out.

Denge is not unlike Dunge but in my opinion Denge is more of a high water mark i.e. 3hrs either side of HW. You will catch similar species re Dunge.
The 'thinking angler' may want to consider fishing Denge over the HW,
then driving around the corner to Dunge to catch the ebb!!

I thought we might as well continue the journey to Seapoint Slipway Seabrook and Salty Sunny Sandgate ! So here it is;-
Traveling Eastwards from the boats at Dungy the depth gets slowly shallower as one aproach's the lifeoat station, The fishing is more or less the same as at the boats and can produce cods and bass in a s/westerly with the added bonus of being a lot less crowded than the point, a lot of people overlook this productive stretch in favour of standing shoulder to shoulder on the holy shrine, and in some ways its a bit of a local secret. Another added bonus is the fact that being relativly unfished it is virtually snag free, result! Similar bait and tactics as for Dungy, smaller baits can produce good hauls of dabs, odd soles, flounder the odd plaice in summer

As the reader heads off towards Lade and Greatstone the deapth reduces dramatically ,obviously drying out to form some of the best bait beds in the country! Fish wise ,a good eel venue in summer (or was ) Huge shoals of schoolies can sometimes be seen in summer if you venture out on to the sands to the waters edge, worth a bit of sport if you take a light rod with you out to pump or dig. As the coastline at Littlestone comes in to the line of fire the deapth at high deepens somewhat more so than at Lade, can produce coddling on the better tides, whiting and pout aplenty, few dabs, sole and eels in summer along with bass throughout the year. A plaice hot spot in spring was the outlet to the marsh dyke in front and to the left of the 'Water tower', good bait beds from easter onwards, if they have not been hammered in the winter.

Further eastwards to St marys Bay the wandering angler will come across the Littlestone golf course, scene of some fantastic match weights with eels in the past ,summer time, bass, sole, dab and whiting also caught here in summer/autumn, can be a real brill venue in a soth/south westerly blow, fish coming sometimes 'under your feet' although distance casting can also pay dividends At low tide, again good digging and start of 'razor country' on big springs.

On to Dymchurch where the depth shortens dramatically, known localy as the 'desert' or 'cyanide sands' fish wise, can produce some real stonking bass in autumn for those freelance spacimen hunters,big lug whole squid or a joey ,usual baits for the usual suspect, the seawall at the 'oval', which is the estate behind the seawall leaving Dymchurch village can and does produce some good cod fishing on springs over high water, lots of tide pull through over the top and for the first hour of the ebb for mr cod to hunt in! Good bass fishing all the way through to the willop sluice ( thats the hump in the road on the A259 coming out of Dymchurch and at the start of the long straight. Start of some seriously good cod (and bass) fishing in winter all the way along this seawall stretch to the 'redoubt'.Unfortunately the enviromental agency has fu***d this once prolific stretch of seawall by building rock encasements all along the wall, still fishable where the gaps in the stairwells are but virtually unfishable at high water for most its length. Ba***ds! Still worth a try on low water springs, cods come into the shallows to gorge on shrimp, get some heart stopping takes in the shallows!

Onward to the fort Redoubt, for those 6that do not know its the fort that looks atop a grassy mound where the A259 deviates awaty from the seawall. It is actally a nepolonic fort with a 40 ft moat around it, though you would not beleive it to look from the road!, this is the start of Hythe ranges, without doubt the best cod venue ,between Dungy and Dover, on its day.Fishable at any time the red flags are not displayed, firing with live ammo takes place between times published and posted on boards here, at the range vehicle entrance opposite the prince of wales pub,and at the fishermans beach end,Hythe. Best fished on tides making to and over springs, hour before high to 3 hours down, big lug penal rigs and 150g impacts do the biz, distance sometimes helps but fish caught from 40 yds onwards. Superb venue on its day.Hot spots are the first long groyne in from redoubt, the brocken tower and between the last 2 martello towers Hythe end,(C range). Fishes particularly well in S/Westerlys and when they change to N/Westelys.

If you dig your own bait the ranges have some of the biggest lack lug outside of blackpool sands! also razor digging is good at times along with clams and butterfish, occassional snake white rag also dug through here, but make sure you dodge them bullets mind! Out the ranges and onto Fishermans beach, little gem of a spot, keeps the colour in the water well after the parade has lost its colour' makes this a hot spot for cod and bass, plus the usual flounder,whiting,odd plaice pout,dogs'n'dabs!

[dover squidy]

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Moving on we come to West Parade, Hythe, from the corner of St Leonards rd to Stade street. Once the most prolific each for flounder in the south of Kent especially after a good gale had dislodged shellfish, still produces a few after the aumn/winter blows but has suffered again by enviro agency interference by shingle pumping and rock abbutments instead of thge wooden groynes that held fish.Still produces codling etc, better fished during and imediately after a stif S/Westerly.Hot pegs were in front of the now demolished prom' shelter relativly snag free except 50 yds either side of the white martello tower house, very sticky!,old rope and lost trawl net to blame!!!
Princes Parade, quite simply the best year round beach on the south coast, fishs best 1 hour before to 2 hours down but can fish well over low waterand first hour of the flood tide, Known country wide as probably the fairest match venue anywhere, produces fish year round, best cod fishing is coming up to and over winter springs, half hour before high to 1.5 hrs after in general, can throw up cods on neaps if the water is coloured and you can find a bit of tide at distance, noted hotspots are the white shelter, the 'double slipway'(actually a single slip cos one went missing during the 87 hurricane, haven't found the bugger yet either, which is a bit worrying!! and lastly the old permanent peg numbers 19,20,21 and 22!,thats either side of the canal outfall at seabrook end,now denoted by the righthand of the 2 orange baskets-on- a-pole. the left hand one being the 'grub' groyne or to give it its rightfull name the 'battery point' groyne, or nowadays the murco garage ,

Seabrook to Sandgate-Coastguard cottages(the first row of houses seaward side as You aproach Sandgate village);-
The rocks start at the left hand side of the rocky groyne in front of the Murco garage, they consist of ridges of reef that run from the base of the shingle beach at an angle of about 45 degrees towards Folkestone, In places they go out as far as you can cast in others they finish anywhere from 20- 100yds at high water. The hotspots used to be in front of the old toilet block (Battery Point-100 yds past the Murco garage)from there it is quite seriously snaggy til You get to the Sandgate hotel-made famous for Gordon 'F'ing' Ramsey chucking the lady Mayoress ,of the French town of Sangatte, in the drink on TV.!! This was one of My favorite cod hot spots -using big crab or yellow tail baits at about 80-100 yds from h'water mark, bit snaggy but in general not bad.
Carrying on towards the war memorial it gets fairly 'boney' but always worth a chuck as it is seldom fished, using the right gear,rock releases and rotton bottoms is sometimes worthwhile.

Moving on to Sandgate promonade the next section to the Rowing Club is a typical rock venue, stiff rods and rotton bottoms-produces good cod and bass plus the odd strap in autumn-best baits ,crab, yellows squid, in that order of preference. The 3 new(ish) rock groynes can be brilliant for spinning for bass either side off, especially if there is mackarel about, also good for bottom fishing for bass with either livebait or sandeel,floatfishing over high water in the summer can produce bass, gars,mackies and pollock.
From the rowing club to the small, now pay to park car park,-very ,very 'boney' -rotton 'botties' a must- good venue for using whole squid or cuttle for cod, livebait or squid for bass. word of warning- out in front of where the new outlet pipe ,by the carpark is ,there are a lot of old pipe lengths cut up from the old pipe, seriusly snaggy but the old pipes are known by divers to contain one or two REALY big eels!!
Car park to the 'gun' (so called because there used to be a naval anti-aircraft gun mounted on the wall behind when the sea cadets building was there)-just before the Castle itself- good bit of clean ground indispersed with rocky reefs (same angle as before) good general fishing, best baits crab, yellows, squid etc, can loose the odd set here and there- if you start loosing gear move 30ft left or right, usually does the trick!

Castle to the 'kick' in the promanade(where the prom turns back inland -'the railings') This is the general area people call the 'Castle'-mixture of reefy bits and clean ground, gets 'boniyer' the nearer you get to the railings, best spot is the 'hole in the wall' (first iron gateway built into the seawall as you walk from the castle)-perhaps the most iconic peg off all this section, has witnessed hundreds of big cod catches in the past-best fished up from low for 2 hours- then an hour before high to 1 hour down the tide-if there are big seas running the noise from the crashing waves is known to 'scare' the fish off from this venue.-Won 3 match's on consecutive nights her one year!!!The 'railings section' -very,very snaggy, but fished with the right gear has produced the biggest cods i have wittnessed on this stretch-a 'heartstopper' peg-have seen rods litreraly fly over the railings at the speed of sound never to be seen again !! This peg is probably the best bass livebaiting peg on the whole of the Sangate coastline- once saw Ernie Woods and his son Simon catch 12 bass to 13lb 10 oz on live pout one evening here.
The 'Mermaid' rocks on lower Sandgate road now have a new(ish) long 'dogleg' rock groyne built over the top of what was an almost unfishable venue, this new groyne is well fishable on its west facing side and has seen bass,cods,dogs pollock and wrasse caught since it was built, fishing is onto mixed ground so it is still advisable to use rotton bottom rigs.This is also a good float fishing venue in the summer months. The bass fishing off here i feel has not realy been explored or exploited enough,We fish in our boats litteraly 100 yds off this groyne and have had untold numbers of bass on mackie liveaits and sandeel, well within 'chucking' distance (well maybe not for chucking a live mackie that distance!! )
From the Mermaid rock groyne to the beach in front of the Leas water lifts;- encompasses a variety of clean and rough ground and 3 new(ish) rock groynes,one in a 'vee' configuration,very strange!!!(hydraulic engineering at its finest! ) the vee groyne has seen loads off bass caught in the last 3 years,( I am on pain of death for giving out this info-it is for the sole use of one or two local anglers- allegedly!- well f**k em!!) they fish on the right hand side of the right hand leg on the up, then move to the left hand side of the left hand leg over the top and down!!!- My favoured and by far cheapest 'rock release'/rotton ottom is the old chestnut of the floating pin, for those that do not know this metho her goes,The floating pin simply consists of 1.5 inch pannel pins, brads, nails,etc, pushed through a small square (3/4 inch)of Polystyrene foam, (usually the bl***y beach is covered in it !!!) make up a load at home, Make Your rig body with a loop one end instead of a swivel/clip, from the loop tie 4-6 inches of a lighter line than Your main line to Your 'disposable' lead , sparkplug,whatever, pass the loop once through the lead eye, place Your do-it-yourself floating pin through the loop and take up the tension and cast, you can be assured that this will take a fair lob, but not if there are others around you. As soon as the rig hits bottom and is given some slack the floating pin will generally do what it says on the side of the packet,and float out leaving you holding on the weak link

DOVER BREAKWATER

A pier is not a pier when it is a breakwater completely isolated and only reached by boat.
Few exist around Britain’s coast: perhaps the most famous in angling terms is Dover Breakwater in Kent, home of the current shore bass record. Local sea anglers think nothing of taking the short boat ride out to the “Concrete Boat” or “The Wall”. While many popular beach venues along the Channel coast become more devoid of fish, Dover breakwater remains one of the most productive daylight venues nationwide.

One of the fascinating things about Dover Breakwater is that there is no commercial fishing allowed inside the harbour – a veritable angling paradise un-trawled, un-netted and un-potted , while the non stop ferry and cruiser traffic makes commercial fishing anywhere near the harbour impossible. The absence of pots gives the inside its large population of lobsters. It was the only place around the Kent Coast where the shore-based angler could catch plaice in large numbers.

To reach the wall requires a five minute boat trip with the Dover Motor Boat Company from the Dump Head pontoon Western Docks at 8am and a return trip at 3:30pm. Anglers are dropped and picked up from the western end steps, although a request for passage to the eastern end steps is rarely refused when the boat is not busy. Access via the stone steps from the boat can be precarious when the sea is lumpy. Don’t take mountains of gear and always assist each other getting off the boat.

The weather, particularly wind strength, is decisive in allowing access to the wall. The boat won’t take anglers out if the Shipping Forecast is over a Force 6 for the Dover region. If you are traveling a long way to Dover you can telephone the Dover Motor Boat Company to find out if the boat is running but remember the decision is made after the 5:35am shipping forecast. The telephone number is 01304 206809. If the breakwater is unavailable then the Admiralty and the Prince of Wales piers can be alternatives.

The current patrolman on the wall is Tommy Preston. He is employed by Dover SAA and is in touch with the Harbour Board at all times via a VHF radio. In case of emergency he should be notified immediately. Getting from the boat to the steps on the side of the wall is precarious and anglers are urged to assist each other and not run off and try to be the first to the best fishing spots. For this reason the wall is only open to able-bodied anglers under Dover Harbour Board rules. There are restrictions on juniors too – you must be over 18 or 16 if accompanied by an adult.

Fishing is only available on the centre section with 213 pegs spaced at approximately two metres along the wall. A short length of the inside wall at each end is also available. Known as the battlements, this area includes the wartime accommodation blocks.

Beating the tide means you shouldn’t cast too far. Short casts mean less line in the water to catch the tide, while casting a similar distance to your neighbours prevents too many tangles.

The depth of water also helps eliminate crossed line problems, although the angler casting long or very short can cause problems for others if unaware of the situation. Cast slightly uptide and release plenty of slack line. This ensures your lead sinks quickly and grips the sea bed. Tidal movement on the inside or harbour side is considerably less and a breakout lead or soft wire fixed lead will hold bottom well. The latter helps combat the inside snags.

The breakwater produces a large variety of species from both sides of the wall during summer. The fishing is so varied it can cater for the bite-a-chuck tastes of the matchmen with pouting, dogfish, scad and pollack; the more patient approach of the specimen hunter seeking big bass, smoothhound, plaice or mullet; and the casual angler, who just wants to wet a line with a chance of catching something.

Regular daytime completions used to produce double figure weights and the series of summer night matches would regularly yield 50lb bags. Pleasure catches include bass into double figures, smoothhound to 12lb, plaice to 5lb, mullet to 5lb and the occasional double figure stingray or conger.

Standard beach gear is adequate for fishing either side of the wall, although rods should be rated for the heaviest grip leads required.

Mainline of 15lb is most suitable to combat the strong tide. Heavier lines can be used for the bigger species and for fishing down the wall or on the inside in places where the bottom is snaggy.

The make up of rigs is important when fishing close range, although this aspect is ignored by many to their cost. Because the water is so deep, fishing at close range often means that hook snoods fished up the line are off the bottom. A flowing trace is the best terminal rig for all species when fishing the outside wall or inside at short range in a strong tide. At other times a one up one down is the best all round tactic, while French booms are a worthwhile consideration either down close to the wall to suspend baits mid-water for bass, pollack and scad or inside after flatfish. Flounders can be caught just under the surface on booms aimed at pollack because they swim up the wall.
Railings run along both sides of the wall so you don’t need to bring a rod rest. However, a railing rod rest is used to hang the baits just under the surface or out from the wall. Otherwise rods should be tied to the railings on all occasions. Use a rod bag or luggage straps, not only because the tide can pull a rod over, but fish can as well when aided by the strong tide.
The area to the western end between pegs 1 and 13 is known as the “Knuckle” and is a favourite spot for bass, just as the flood run picks up. The inside here produces pollack on the surface after dark. The other end, where the boat drops off, at peg 213 is also a bass hot spot from the outside wall. You will have to be first on the boat to fish these pegs. For the Knuckle it’s a daily race when everyone gets off the boat.
The middle numbers can be more productive and less snaggy for plaice from the inside wall. Snags are a problem and the worst place for hook ups is around pegs 20 to 30 on the inside wall, also around pegs 65 and 110 on the inside, although snags do tend to come and go with rough weather and variations of angling pressure.
A good days fishing can depend a lot on the weather, if the wind stays and sits in easterly direction fishing can be hard work, but can be good after a prolonged easterly blow will churn up the Goodwin Sands colouring the water from deal and sends the sediment round to Dover where there will be lots of colour in the water and hopefully lots of fish.
Cod travel the outside wall immediately following the short, but strong flood run. The tide runs to the left towards Deal. The start of the flood tide run is a hot time for bass, time to fish a fresh mackerel head alongside the wall in summer and autumn.
Watch the waves – once the tide starts to slack after the strong flood run, they start to slap against the wall. This is also the time to keep a careful eye out for the odd rogue wave because when its rough these freak waves can breach the wall and threaten tackle.

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Directions to Sandwich Bay

The easiest way is as follows and avoids the toll:

Get to Deal and get on the seafront.

Drive along the seafront road east (with the sea on your right).

Follow this road to the end and it turns sharp left away from the sea.

300y after leaving the sea the road bears sharp left again. On this bend turn right onto Golf Road.

Follow Golf road. You will go past the golf club. After half a mile or so you will come to the Chequers on your right. Park on the left just after it and there is a footpath marked which will take you to the sea.

To fish the slipway, continue on about 1/2 mile and you will see a big house to your right set well back from the road. There are some parking spots on the road to your left (grass verge parking) and a gate and stile to your right. Go through the gate and follow the path. this will bring you to the "slipway".

Sandwich Bay 10th green

best to share a car here as parking is limited especialy around the chequers pub , the bay fishes best in a north easterly backing north westerly or a south westerly backing west north west , with a 6 m tide the best on a midnight tide

tactics are the same as dungeoness but you dont have to use pully pennels as its clean ground mostly a fixed pennel with size 2 /o in early october and 4 / 0 in december is good enough , i found that long casting produces the best fish but 40 yds will get you cod and loads of whiting , and later in the year you get rays use a heavier snood line for the rays and half a bluey wraped with bait elastic or bluey and sandeel works well

SANDOWN

In between Deal and sandwich sits Sandown, a somewhat snaggy beach by all acounts, but a pulley rig will help you out on here, best fishing is 2 hours before and 2 hours after high

SHAKESPEARE BEACH DOVER

A beach of moderate depth, that has clean ground, and very few if no snags at all, best place to fish is to the right of bull rock, this rock you can no longer see apart from on a very shallow tide, so a marker pole is your best guide to fish in front of that, fish to be had in spring and summer are bass, sole, the usual pout n whiting, sea bream, dogs, gurnard, cod can be found here in winter months

[dover squidy]

ADMIRALTY PIER - DOVER

Expect codling, pouting, whiting, dabs and dogfish in winter. Bigger cod show from mid-November to January.

Bass are landed in summer from the extension and end to fresh mackerel: 50lb line is required for this.

Mackerel in summer to feathers around high water from the first half near the Turret. Other species include garfish, scad, pollack, pout, bream, gurnards, plaice, wrasse and mullet. Smoothhounds are caught on peeler crabs in summer from the extension.

Fresh black and yellowtail lug are the best baits, with calamari squid an essential for cocktails in winter.

A large bait is required for big cod.

Bunches of common lug can be effective, with peeler crabs deadly when there are lots of codling.

Sandeels are a stanby bait and catch dogfish, whiting, pout and codling.

A 6oz gemini yellow head fixed wire lead is essential, with 15lb mainline improving its bottom-holding capacity during the flood tide. Make sure you use a strong leader knot because the bottom is muddy in places. A long leader helps when lifting fish.

Best rig is a one-up, one-down, but a three-hook flapper is the match angler's choice.

Size 1 hooks are the minimum due to the strong tide, but use 3/0 and upwards for cod. There is no need to cast more than 50 yards. A 6ft flowing trace and size 6/0 Pennell is best for bass. Always take a net.

SAMPHIRE HOE

When the Channel tunnel was constructed, all the spoil, and there was many thousands of tonnes of waste, it was dumped at the foot of Shakespeare Cliff between Dover and Folkstone, it covered an area of 90.000 acres. After being concreted it formed a very long "breakwater", flat and clean and with a high wall to the front. A day permit is required, cost £4, parking about £1. Permits from the cafe in the car park. Fishing from here is excellent most of the year. The high peg numbers are recommended to be the best from 160 to 200. A long walk with a lot of gear. The bottom is full of boulders and iron work, and much tackle can be lost. On the plus side, the variety of fish to be caught, cod, bass, pollack, dogfish, conger, wrasse, dogfish mackerel and garfish, plus the unexpected.. Top baits are Peeler crab probably the top bait, especially when targeting the big bass, and they are caught here well into double figures, they are a target fish for locals, ragworm popular, tipped with mackerel, try also lug, live baiting joey mackerel also effective. A large drop net essential because you are high off the water. Flood tide early morning or late evening the best time to fish.

DEAL PIER

Opened in 1957 by the Duke of Edinburgh, it was the last pier to be open in England. It had the angler in mind when it was built and offers many facilities including access for wheelchairs. In summer float fishing for mackerel and garfish is popular. Mullet are also caught here along with pollack around the piles. Sole are also caught here during the summer in reasonable numbers. In winter it is whiting and codling. Top baits are yellowtail lug and peeler crab. white rag and ragworm also take fish. Fishes well on all tides, but local say neaps are the best.

ALDEBURGH

A shingle beach with deep water close in, runs down on to sand. From September the whiting arrive, and in November and December cod are the target fish. Most are below ten pounds. After Christmas through until March its flounder and dab, the latter in quantity. Martello Tower and the groyns in front of the yacht club two of the popular marks. Best times is spring tides, when high tide is around midnight. Bait. Pennell rig baited with squid lugworm cocktail a favourite for cod. Ragworm tops for the flat fish.

RAMSGATE

The outside of the east pier fishes in the winter on the flood tide, but don't be to expectant of a lot of fish. Summer months on the inside of both piers is the better fishing. High water is the locals favourite time for mullet. Fish to catch include flounder, bass, eels and codling in the winter. Peeler crab a preferred bait, black lug and rag also used. Moorings can be a problem.

[dover squidy]

KINGSDOWN BUTTS

As the name suggests, this is an ex army rifle range, with fishing from the cliffes protection aprons, Essentially an autumn and winter venue, cod to 30lb have been caught from the butts with a 52lb conger known to have been caught there,

WESTERN UNDERCLIFFE - Ramsgate

To the south of the Transeuropa ferry terminal, offers easy access, where bass, flounder, codling, eels, pout n yting can be caught, baits to use are peeler, lug and rag

[Bluesbro]

Blimey squidy hows you fingers feeling after that one eh? lol, seriously great report matey, i shall be sure to come back and visit this post before deciding where i want to fish in the future.

Tight lines

Joe

[dover squidy]

Originally Posted by Bluesbro

Blimey squidy hows you fingers feeling after that one eh? lol, seriously great report matey, i shall be sure to come back and visit this post before deciding where i want to fish in the future.

Tight lines

Joe

Hope it helps and maybe answers a question one or 2 might ask about venues, they can check here and get a few pointers

[pingu]

some really good info there , thanks

dave

[tjnorton]

Some great info there. Well done. Will defiantly read again before going to Kent fishing.

tj

[fishypaul]

superb info mate well done