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Arrecife and Playa Honda

Harbour wall · Salt water · in Lanzarote

The island capital's harbour front and the reefs it is named for, with the Charco de San Ginés lagoon behind, the commercial mole to the west and the long sand of Playa Honda running towards the airport.

Safety: cliffs and rock platforms — can cause serious injury or death.

What each one does, and what reduces it ↓

FishingHQ describes what this place is, not whether you may fish it. Access, permits and who to ask.

What you can catch here

Documented at this place, grouped by how you would be fishing, with how strongly the sources support each one. This is what has been written down, not a forecast, and being listed is never permission to fish.

From the shore · 5

What these strengths mean
Regular local target
Fishing sources describe this as a normal local target here, not merely as caught.
Recorded here
At least one credible public account of this species being caught here. That is all it means.
How breadth is counted
A fish documented at six marks is shown as six marks: breadth never raises the strength on its own. A fishery account describes the fishing; a recorded catch reports one specific catch. How evidence is weighed.

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at Arrecife and Playa Honda itself. Each one has been documented at a named place on the same ground, and the places are listed with it. Treat this as what the water around here holds rather than as a catch list for this mark.

Widely documented on this ground

Documented at three or more neighbouring places, fished a way this place is also fished. That is a pattern about the ground rather than about any one mark, and it is the closest this site comes to saying you will probably meet a fish somewhere nothing has been written about.

From the shore

  • Atlantic mackerel — documented at Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; Playa Quemada, Lanzarote; Puerto Calero, Lanzarote (+1 more)
  • Common octopus — documented at Los Hervideros, Lanzarote; Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote
  • Greater amberjack — documented at Los Hervideros, Lanzarote; Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; Papagayo and Playa Blanca (+2 more)
  • Ornate wrasse — documented at The cliff coast between Puerto del Carmen and Puerto Calero; Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; Puerto Calero, Lanzarote (+1 more)
  • Comber — documented at Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; Órzola; Arrieta and the Jameos coast (+2 more)
  • Dusky grouper — documented at Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote; Arrieta and the Jameos coast (+1 more)
  • Red porgy — documented at The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote; Órzola; The Risco de Famara (+1 more)

Also documented at neighbouring places

One or two accounts each, on the ground around here. Enough to know the fish is caught in these waters; not enough to say anything about this place.

From the shore

How people fish it

Practised here: Sea fishing.

Methods the sources name for this ground. Each one is explained in full on its own page.

  • Float fishing

    Suspending a bait at a controlled depth beneath a buoyant indicator — the most visual, most controllable and most widely applicable method in angling.

  • Ledgering

    Fishing a bait on the bottom held by a weight, with no float — the simplest way to fish at distance, in depth, or in wind.

  • Light rock fishing

    Ultralight lure fishing from the shore with tackle rated in single grams — a discipline that catches the fish everybody else steps over, and one FishingHQ held every component of and had never named.

The ground and the water

The ground
The island capital's harbour front and the reefs it is named for, with the Charco de San Ginés lagoon behind, the commercial mole to the west and the long sand of Playa Honda running towards the airport.
Exposure
Sheltered by the reefs the town is named after; the ground outside them is not.

Safety

Cliffs and rock platforms — Can cause serious injury or death

Atlantic swell reaches the northern and western coasts with little energy lost, because there is no shelf to dissipate it. Waves at exposed lava platforms are larger and less predictable than the wind suggests, and people are washed off regularly.

What reduces it: Check swell rather than wind. Watch any platform for a sustained period before committing to it. Never fish a position you could not leave immediately, and treat undercut and blowhole ground as unsafe regardless of conditions.

Rules and access

FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. The Canary Islands are an autonomous community licensing their own recreational sea, boat and underwater fishing, separately from mainland Spain, and the archipelago carries marine reserves in which fishing and diving are restricted or prohibited on boundaries a visitor cannot see from the shore. Measures change. Check the current position with the Canarian government's fisheries administration before going.

Who holds the answer:

  • The Canarian government's fisheries administration, which licenses recreational sea and underwater fishing in the archipelago.
  • The island council, for local measures and for access to the coast.
  • The marine reserve administration, where the water is inside a reserve.
  • The Canary Islands autonomous government's fisheries department, which administers recreational sea fishing licensing and rules in Canarian waters.
  • The management authority of the marine reserve around the northern islets and La Graciosa, for zoning and permitted activity within it.
  • The Spanish national fisheries administration for offshore waters and for matters reserved to it.
  • The local island council and harbour authorities for shore and harbour access arrangements.

Nearby fishing

Other publicly documented places within about 40 km, by distance. Positions are approximate public geography and are never exact marks.

Arrecife and Playa HondaThe Costa Teguise shore, LanzarotePuerto del Carmen harbour, LanzaroteThe cliff coast between Puerto del Carmen and Puerto CaleroPuerto Calero, LanzarotePlaya Quemada, LanzarotePlaya de Famara, LanzaroteLa Santa, LanzaroteArrieta and the Jameos coast
Arrecife and Playa Honda and the publicly documented places around it. Approximate positions, not marks. On a narrow screen the plot is wider than the screen and scrolls sideways inside its frame. Positions are approximate by design — they are capped at about a hundred metres and describe where a named public place is, not where fish are and not a mark. Everything plotted here is also listed below.

Sources for this place

  • Sea Angler — Bauer Media (Specialist angling publication)Relied on for: Long-running published description of British sea angling practice by region, ground type and named mark.FishingHQ's interpretation of what it saysCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • General angling website restatements of established technique — Various (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: Widely restated public descriptions of which places are conventionally fished and how, recorded as practitioner consensus rather than as scholarship, and not relied on for access, permission or any current rule.Background and mechanism onlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Guías de zonas de pesca en Canarias — Tenerife, Gran Canaria y Lanzarote — GuíaCanarias (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: Which stretches of Canarian coast are publicly described as fished, with the techniques and the species the island guides attach to them.States this directlyPassage read and verified
  • Canary Islands regional angling guidance sites — Various Canary-based angling and island guidance publishers (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: Canary shore angling practice: the species presented as ordinary local shore species, the techniques used from rock and mole, and the baits.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly

How FishingHQ labels evidence is explained in the evidence policy. Last reviewed 2026-08-16.

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