Watermouth Cove - Devon

[L_muslibar]

After a bit of advice from anyone who's fished down there as visiting the campsite in August - what species etc. likely to encounter. Seems like it's a decent venue for scratching about with some bass thrown in.

Anyone been down there before?

[Jeffrob445]

I spent 20 years in Devon, you will catch Dogs, Pouting, Weevers,Mackerel (spinning picks out the bigger ones, PB was 2 1/2 lb)the odd flatty, Schooly Bass and small whiting. Dogs and Pouting can be present in plague numbers.

[simon]

Is that just outside bude ??

[COD GOB]

Camped at the same site a for few year off the trot, lovely area, the cove itself has a path that runs along the right hand side, when you reach a little round stone building if you turn left you end up near to the cove entrance , light rods some great sport, wrasse, garfish, makky and if your lucky mullet.

If you turn right at the little stone building, you end up on the sea side, loads of ledgers, bass ,conger.

There's a point on the cove/sea side that you can only get onto at low tide, but mint for conger.

Ilfracombe is ok if your on a species hunt, caught my 1st John Dory there off the harbour, gets busy though, last time I was there I ended up scrapping in front of my own kids, because a local lad was being very abusive to his own boys...f...in and blinding for no reason at all.