Portsmouth and Southampton Spot X fishing Marks

Langsdown Harbour is a good high tide venue. It can hold school bass and some much larger specimens. The larger bass can be caught on mackerel fillet, ragworm or large squid or peeler crab baits. This harbour is also a flounder hotspot with ragworm and lugworm baits on size 1 – 1/0 hooks on multi-hook rigs the best method of catching them. Victoria Pier offers mackerel and garfish to float fished baits and spinners in the summer, with mullet also a possibility in calm summer weather. Eastney beach is a steeply sloping shingle beach which can produce a range of species. Plaice, gurnard, red mullet and black bream can be caught in the warmer months with whiting, cod and pouting caught in the winter. Anglers here should try varying casting ranges as bass and flounder can be taken close in, but sometimes casts may have to be at longer distances to put a bait amongst the feeding fish. Mayflower Park in Southampton can produce mullet to bread, earthworm, fish flake or maggot baits. Plenty of other species can be caught here with conventional bottom fishing. Try a two hook flapping rig with size 1/0 hooks and flounder, whiting, school bass and pouting could all be caught. View this area on Google Maps