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The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote

Rock platform · Salt water · in Lanzarote

Low cut lava between the small engineered beaches of the resort coast on Lanzarote's east side, with rock ledges, pools and sand pockets alternating along it. The structures a resident guide names as marks along it are the breakwaters that shelter Playa de las Cucharas and Playa del Jablillo, and the rocks at Playa Bastián.

Safety: cliffs and rock platforms — can cause serious injury or death. One more point applies here.

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 · 6

What these strengths mean
Repeatedly reported
Several independent public accounts. Enough to say it happens more than once; not enough to call it a fishery.
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 The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote 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

  • Mediterranean parrotfish — documented at Órzola; Arrieta and the Jameos coast; The Risco de Famara (+3 more)
  • Salema porgy — documented at Arrieta and the Jameos coast; Órzola; Papagayo and Playa Blanca (+1 more)
  • 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)
  • Bogue — documented at Puerto Calero, Lanzarote; Los Hervideros, Lanzarote; Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote (+3 more)
  • Comber — documented at Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; Órzola; Arrieta and the Jameos coast (+2 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.

  • Spinning

    Casting an artificial lure and retrieving it so that it moves like something alive — the most direct form of lure fishing.

  • Kayak fishing

    A platform rather than a technique: quiet, shallow-draught access to water no other craft reaches, bought at the price of exposure, and a discipline where the decision not to launch is part of the skill.

Baits and lures for these fish

The baits and lures each of the fish above is commonly taken on, from that fish’s own page. This is what works for the fish, not a report of what people use on this particular water — local knowledge and the conditions on the day still decide.

Lures

The ground and the water

The ground
Low cut lava between the small engineered beaches of the resort coast on Lanzarote's east side, with rock ledges, pools and sand pockets alternating along it. The structures a resident guide names as marks along it are the breakwaters that shelter Playa de las Cucharas and Playa del Jablillo, and the rocks at Playa Bastián.
Exposure
Moderately exposed to the trade wind but without the swell that works the north and west coasts.
Depth
Shallower and more broken than the west coast: ledges and sand rather than an immediate drop.

Safety

Cliffs and rock platforms — Can cause serious injury or death

Anglers are swept from rock platforms by individual large sets rather than by the average sea, which means the conditions that kill frequently look survivable for the twenty minutes before they arrive. Wet rock, weed and a swell running onto a sloping platform remove any chance of recovery.

What reduces it: Watch the water for a full set cycle before committing to a position, know the escape route and how long it takes, wear a flotation aid rather than carry one, never fish a platform alone, and treat a rising swell forecast as a reason not to go rather than a reason to be careful.

Sun, dehydration and fatigue — Can cause injury needing treatment

Long summer sessions on shadeless rock produce dehydration and heat exhaustion, and both degrade judgement and coordination well before they produce collapse, on ground where both are what keep somebody safe.

What reduces it: Carry substantially more water than the session appears to need, fish the ends of the day rather than the middle of it in high summer, and treat shade and a stopping time as part of the plan.

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.

Particular to this water: A Canary recreational fishing licence is required, separately for shore, boat and underwater fishing. FishingHQ does not hold the current requirements — check with the Canary regional fisheries authority before fishing.

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.

The Costa Teguise shore, LanzaroteArrecife and Playa HondaPlaya de Famara, LanzaroteArrieta and the Jameos coastThe Risco de FamaraPuerto del Carmen harbour, LanzaroteThe cliff coast between Puerto del Carmen and Puerto CaleroLa Santa, LanzarotePuerto Calero, Lanzarote
The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote 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

  • EMODnet — the European Marine Observation and Data Network — The European Commission, assembled from the national hydrographic offices, geological surveys and marine institutes of the member states (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Charted bathymetry, seabed substrate and seabed habitat for European sea areas, assembled from the national hydrographic and geological surveys, at the resolution the product publishes.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • The European Environment Agency's assessments of Europe's waters, seas and coasts — European Environment Agency, Copenhagen (Conservation authority)Relied on for: Assessment of Europe's coasts and regional seas, including the condition of coastal water bodies, the pressures recorded on them and the coverage of designated sites.Background and mechanism onlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Canary Islands regional angling guidance sites — Various Canary-based angling and island guidance publishers (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: Island-by-island Spanish-language guidance naming the coasts, moles, harbours and beaches that are fished from the shore in the Canaries, and the species presented as local shore species at them.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Canary Islands angling community and forum material — Public Canary angling forums and community postings (Practitioner report)Relied on for: Public Canary angling community accounts naming specific marks and describing the ground at them, treated as evidence that a mark is genuinely fished and as nothing else.FishingHQ's interpretation of what it saysCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Canary Islands marine reserves and recreational fishing licensing — Spanish and Canary regional fisheries and environmental authorities (Government fisheries body)Relied on for: That marine reserves exist in the archipelago with zoned rather than uniform restrictions, and that a Canary recreational fishing licence is required for shore and boat fishing alike.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
  • Shore fishing in Lanzarote — a resident guide to where and how — Lanzarote Information, 2017 (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: The structures a resident guide names as shore fishing marks along this coast: the breakwaters at Playa de las Cucharas and Playa del Jablillo, and the rocks at Playa Bastián.States this directlyPassage read and verified
  • Kayak Fishing Lanzarote — trip and contact pages — Kayak Fishing Lanzarote (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: That the named location is one of the points a Lanzarote kayak fishing guide gives as ground it runs guided kayak and shore fishing trips from.FishingHQ's interpretation of what it saysPassage read and verified
  • Pesca deportiva en Lanzarote — the island's own guide to sport fishing — Turismo Lanzarote (Cabildo de Lanzarote) (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The species Lanzarote's own authority gives for each fishing modality, and the areas of the island it names for each modality.States this directlyPassage read and verified

How FishingHQ labels evidence is explained in the evidence policy. Last reviewed 2026-08-20.

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