Órzola

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at Órzola 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

The ground and the water

The ground

The small ferry and fishing harbour at the northern tip of Lanzarote, with a mole enclosing it, white sand coves either side and the channel to La Graciosa running past the entrance.

Exposure

Open north; the mole is the shelter and the channel outside it is not sheltered at all.

Tide and flow

The channel between Lanzarote and La Graciosa runs hard past the harbour mouth, which is the fact that decides when the outer mole fishes.

Getting there

What public sources describe, last checked 2026-08-26. 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 small ferry and fishing port on the northern tip of Lanzarote, at the end of the road under the Famara massif. It is the mainland end of the La Graciosa crossing and the harbour is busy with foot passengers for it.

Public transport

The island's interurban bus network runs a scheduled line from Arrecife to Órzola whose terminus is the harbour itself, so the mark is reachable without a car. The operator publishes the line and the stops; times, fares and frequency are the operator's and change.

Parking

• No car park at this place

  The harbour authority's own file card for this port has a field for a car park and records none. That is a statement about what the port operates, and the authority says nothing about the streets around it.

What is there

• Public toilets

  Toilets are listed among the port's services by the harbour authority. The authority's own current plans include building public toilets, which suggests the existing provision is limited.

• Drinking water

  Potable water is listed among the port's services on the harbour authority's file card.

• Food or shelter

  A café and a souvenir shop operate at the port, serving the La Graciosa ferry traffic. Opening is the operators' business rather than the port's.

• Harbour facilities

  A working ferry and fishing harbour with electricity and water on the quays and twenty-four-hour security. Two companies run regular passenger lines to Caleta del Sebo on La Graciosa.

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.

• La Graciosa — 2–5 km · Island
• Caleta de Sebo, La Graciosa — 5–10 km · Harbour wall
• Arrieta and the Jameos coast — 10–25 km · Rock platform
• The Risco de Famara — 10–25 km · Cliff coast
• Playa de Famara, Lanzarote — 10–25 km · Surf beach
• La Santa, Lanzarote — 10–25 km · Rock platform
• The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote — 25–40 km · Rock platform
• Arrecife and Playa Honda — 25–40 km · Harbour wall

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
• Puertos Canarios: the port file cards — Puertos Canarios (Gobierno de Canarias) (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The regional harbour authority describing its own port: services, the absence of a car park, and the ferry lines it hosts.States this directlyPassage read and verified
• Intercity Lanzarote (Arrecife Bus): the island bus network — Arrecife Bus / Intercity Lanzarote (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The island bus operator's own line index, establishing that a scheduled interurban service reaches this place.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
• 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

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