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Llandudno Pier

Pier · Salt water · in The Welsh coast and Anglesey

A long iron pier on the sheltered eastern side of the Great Orme, standing in deeper water than most of this coast over limestone rubble and sand.

Safety: moving water and currents — can cause serious injury or death. One more point applies here.

What each one does, and what reduces it ↓

Particular to this water: The pier operator states on its own site that fishing is no longer permitted anywhere on the pier. The fishing platform at the seaward end, which was the mark, is closed. Older angling guides still name this pier, and they describe what the fishing was rather than what is currently allowed. The operator holds that question.

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

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at Llandudno Pier 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.

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

  • European flounder — documented at Point of Ayr and Talacre; Rhyl; The Conwy estuary (+3 more)
  • European sea bass — documented at Dinas Dinlle; Point of Ayr and Talacre; Rhyl (+3 more)
  • Conger eel — documented at The Great Orme; Caernarfon and the Menai south entrance
  • Dab — documented at The Welsh Dee at Mostyn and Flint
  • Pollack — documented at The Great Orme
  • Starry smooth-hound — documented at Point of Ayr and Talacre; Rhyl; Dinas Dinlle
  • Thick-lipped grey mullet — documented at The Conwy estuary; Caernarfon and the Menai south entrance; The Welsh Dee at Mostyn and Flint
  • Thornback ray — documented at Point of Ayr and Talacre; Dinas Dinlle
  • Whiting — documented at Rhyl; The Welsh Dee at Mostyn and Flint
  • Atlantic cod — documented at The Welsh Dee at Mostyn and Flint
  • Atlantic mackerel — documented at The Great Orme
  • Ballan wrasse — documented at The Great Orme
  • European plaice — documented at The Welsh Dee at Mostyn and Flint
  • Black seabream — documented at Caernarfon and the Menai south entrance
  • Common sole — documented at The Welsh Dee at Mostyn and Flint

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

The ground and the water

The ground
A long iron pier on the sheltered eastern side of the Great Orme, standing in deeper water than most of this coast over limestone rubble and sand.

Getting there

What public sources describe, last checked 2026-08-25. Car parks fill, services change and a path existing is not a path anybody may use — none of this is a guarantee of availability and none of it is permission to be anywhere.

Getting to it
A long iron pier running out from the promenade on the sheltered eastern side of the Great Orme, open to the public through the year and reached on foot from the town front. It is a visitor attraction rather than an angling venue: the operator opens it daily except Christmas Day, with longer hours through the summer than out of season.
Where this access information comes from
  • Llandudno Pier — the operator's own visitor information — Llandudno Pier (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: That the operator opens the pier to the public daily except Christmas Day on a summer and an off-season schedule, and that fishing is no longer permitted anywhere on it.States this directlyPassage read and verified

Safety

Moving water and currents — Can cause serious injury or death

Tidal races and overfalls form and disperse with the state of the tide, producing standing waves and fast confused water where flat water was an hour earlier. Small craft caught in a race on the wrong state face conditions that paddling or a small engine will not overcome, and a person swept from rock into a running stream is carried away from the entry point immediately.

What reduces it: Plan against tidal stream timing rather than against wind alone; obtain local knowledge of when each piece of water runs and when it is slack; never launch a small craft near a race without that information; and treat the state of the tide as the go or no-go variable it is here.

Worse when:

  • Spring tides, when the streams run hardest
  • Wind against tide, which stands the water up steeply
  • Any small craft, and kayaks in particular, whose speed is a fraction of the stream's

Cliffs and rock platforms — Can cause serious injury or death

Rock platforms on the north and west put an angler beside deep, fast-moving water, sometimes with a descent that is much harder to reverse than to make. Immersion here is compounded by the stream, which removes any prospect of climbing out where you went in.

What reduces it: Watch a mark for a long period before committing; wear a buoyancy aid; never fish rock alone; plan the exit for a worse sea than the one you arrived in; and know whether the mark is cut off by the tide.

Rules and access

FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. Shore angling in Wales is not rod-licensed, but access rights, landowner permission, local authority and harbour byelaws, national and inshore fisheries measures, and site designations all apply and all change. Check the current position with Natural Resources Wales, the harbour or local authority, and the landowner before going.

Particular to this water: The pier operator states on its own site that fishing is no longer permitted anywhere on the pier. The fishing platform at the seaward end, which was the mark, is closed. Older angling guides still name this pier, and they describe what the fishing was rather than what is currently allowed. The operator holds that question.

Who holds the answer:

  • Natural Resources Wales, which administers marine and fisheries regulation in Welsh waters.
  • The local authority and, where one exists, the harbour authority, for access, byelaws and shellfish classification.
  • The Welsh environmental and fisheries authority, for licensing, sea fisheries rules and enforcement in Wales
  • The relevant local authority, for byelaws and for shellfish harvesting classification and closures
  • The body managing any marine protected area on the stretch concerned
  • The harbour authority for working harbours and the relevant landowner for access points
  • The coastguard, for tidal stream and safety information, and local charter skippers whose knowledge of the races is operative safety information

Nearby fishing

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

Llandudno PierThe Great OrmeThe Conwy estuaryColwyn BayPenmon PointBeaumaris PierThe Conwy at LlanrwstRhylRed Wharf Bay
Llandudno Pier 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
  • Llandudno Pier — the operator's own visitor information — Llandudno Pier (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The pier operator's own statement of its access arrangements and its position on angling.States this directlyPassage read and verified

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

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