CHECK OUT THESE GREAT VENUES

SEAHAM NORTH PIER, COUNTY DURHAM:

Located six miles south of Sunderland, access to this very popular venue is restricted to Seaham SAC members (0191 581 0321). Cost is £30 for annual membership, with concessions for juniors and OAPs.

All members get a key to the venue.

The pier, where the ground ranges from clean to rough, is noted for its autumn and winter cod fishing. Summer species include plaice, dogfish, bass, pouting, soles, pollack, mackerel and thornback, spotted and cuckoo rays. Night tides can produce cod to peeler crabs in summer.

There is a car park at the base of the pier, but it can be busy at weekends.

BRIXHAM BREAKWATER, SOUTH DEVON:

Protecting Brixham Harbour, this breakwater is popular with anglers and considered one of the most important marks in Torbay, mainly because of its potential to produce record fish. Fishing is possible from both sides of the venue. There are rocks on either side of the structure. Once a top mark for conger eels, it also produces bass, pollack, dogfish, rockling, whiting, wrasse, garfish and mackerel. The lighthouse end is popular in summer.

There is ample parking nearby (the cost is cheaper at night). It’s a 10-minute walk to the end of the venue.

ST CATHERINE’S BREAKWATER, JERSEY:

The most popular mark on Jersey, this is another venue with record fish potential. Fishing is from the front and back walls.

The end is popular with mackerel anglers. Other species include various ray species, pollack, garfish, wrasse, rockling, black bream, conger eels, mullet, soles, plaice and smoothhounds.

Due to the strong tide, most of the fishing is during slack water either side of high or low tide.