Beach Fishing In Wales

A random selection of Welsh beaches to browse through
in no particular order!
Llangrannog
Llangrannog has two beaches, separated by a headland, Traeth y Pentref and Cilborth. Traeth y Pentref is near the village with Cilborth a short distance to the north. There is a flight of steps down to Cilborth beach. Both are in a small bays, flanked by headlands,...
Dinas Dinlle
Dinas Dinlle is a clean, sand and shingle beach. Fish caught include dabs, whiting, dogfish, plaice, bass, turbot, codling, rays, rockling, smoothound, coalfish, garfish, flounders, mackerel. The beach runs along the promontory on which Caernarfon Airport is situated....
Tywyn: North Beach
Tywyn has fishing from North Beach. It is mainly sand, but has patches of shingle. There are also the peaty remains of a prehistoric forest. Fish include eels, bass, garfish, mullet, turbot, dogfish, whiting, rays, plaice. There are also sewin (sea trout), mainly...
Benllech
Benllech is a clean, sandy beach and is fished both from the sand and from the promenade. Fish include dabs, whiting, coalfish, bass, dogfish. Take the A5025 to Amlwch. The right-hand turn for Benllech is just past Pentraeth. There is plenty of parking available by...
Borth y Gest
Borth y Gest has fishing from a beach and a harbour. The beach is clean, sand and shingle. The harbour is sand and silt, with small outcrops of rock at either end. Fish include bass, rays, turbot, garfish, whiting, mackerel, dabs, dogfish, flounders. Entering...
Criccieth
Criccieth has two beaches, Criccieth and Marine, separated by the castle. Criccieth Beach, to the east of the castle, is mainly shingle, with sand further out, fishing onto clean ground. Marine Beach, sometimes known as Castle Beach, to the west of the castle, is sand...
Aberthaw
Aberthaw beach runs along the front of the power station. It is mainly rocks, with patches of sand and shingle. Fish include bass, rays, conger, smoothound, whiting, cod, codling, mullet, pouting, wrasse. Aberthaw is signposted from the B4265 between St Athan and...
Abersoch
Abersoch has fishing on the beach and the harbour. The beach is mainly sand with some shingle. The harbour is clean and sandy with a channel, formed by the River Soch, running through it. Fish caught include flounders, rays, whiting, mullet, dogfish, bass, dabs,...
Colwyn Bay
Colwyn Bay is fished alongside the promenade and is mainly sand and silt. Fish include flounders, whiting, coalfish, codling, dabs, plaice, eels, rays, bass. Parking is on the promenade. Image © Graham Taylor and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons...
Traeth Crugan
Traeth Crugan is mainly rocks and shingle with the occasional patch of sand. The bed is a similar mix. Fish caught include bass, dogfish, huss, whiting, dabs. On the A499 between Pwllheli and Llanbedrog is Penrhos. Between Penrhos and Llanbedrog there are two unmarked...
Bennar Fawr
Bennar Fawr is a mainly sandy beach with odd patches of rocks and shingle. Fish caught include bass, flounders, whiting, dabs, dogfish, rays, turbot, plaice. Bennar Fawr is near Llanddwywe, which is on the A496, roughly halfway between Barmouth and Harlech. Travelling...
Llanddulas
Llanddulas is a mainly shingle beach with sand below tide level and occasional rocks. Fish caught include plaice, cod, rays, bass, conger, coalfish, whiting, dabs, dogfish, codling, flounders. Signposted off the A55 between Abergele and Colwyn Bay, there is car...