Ponta de São Lourenço

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at Ponta de São Lourenço 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.

• Spinning

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

• Jigging

  Working a weighted lure with a rising-and-falling motion, usually vertically, so it behaves like a wounded or fleeing baitfish.

The ground and the water

The ground

The long, narrow, treeless peninsula running east from Madeira's eastern end, a spine of eroded volcanic rock dropping in cliffs on both sides with deep water and strong streams round its point.

Exposure

Exposed on both faces with the north side taking the full prevailing wind and Atlantic swell. The peninsula is a nature reserve and the ground is open and unsheltered along its whole length.

Tide and flow

Streams run hard round the point where the island's two coasts exchange water, which is the reason pelagic fish work the ground.

Getting there

What public sources describe, last checked 2026-08-27. 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

The eastern tip of the island, reached by driving the ER109 to its end at Baía d'Abra and then walking. The official record gives four kilometres each way, about two and a half hours, moderate, with a maximum altitude of a hundred and twenty-six metres: a walk rather than a drive-up, and the return is part of the plan. ENTERING IT IS CHARGED AND BOOKED through the regional authority's own portal — four euros fifty for visitors over twelve at the time of checking, free below it. The charge and the arrangement are the authority's and change.

The walk in

An undulating rocky path along an exposed peninsula, with the final climb the most demanding part of it. The board describes the ground as semi-arid, with low vegetation and an ABSENCE OF TREES, and the peninsula as exposed to northern winds — so there is no shade anywhere on it and no shelter from wind at any point.

Mobility

There is none beyond the car park. The route is a rocky, undulating and exposed path with a climb at the far end, and the ground does not permit anything else.

Parking

• Baía d'Abra car park

  Public car park · No charge recorded

  At the end of the ER109 and the only parking for the peninsula. It is free and it fills very quickly; arriving early is the only way to be sure of a space. There is nothing further on.

What is there

• No drinking water

  The official page describes a semi-arid peninsula with low vegetation and no trees, and names no facility of any kind along the route. Everything carried onto it has to be carried back.

Rules and access

FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. Madeira is an autonomous region of Portugal with its own fisheries administration, and recreational sea and underwater fishing are licensed regionally rather than by the mainland directorate. Species, size, quantity and gear measures apply and change, and marine protected areas around the archipelago constrain access independently. Check the current position with the regional fisheries directorate before going.

Particular to this water: The peninsula is a protected natural area with waymarked routes and constraints on where people may go. Those are the reserve manager's and are independent of anything about fishing.

Who holds the answer:

• The Regional Directorate for Fisheries of Madeira, which licenses and regulates recreational sea and underwater fishing in the archipelago.
• The port authority, for access to harbour structures.
• The Regional Directorate for Fisheries of Madeira, for recreational licences, sizes and species rules
• The managing authority of any marine protected area or nature reserve, whose zoning governs what is permitted inside it
• The regional forestry and nature-conservation authority, for the levadas and the mountain streams
• Harbour and port authorities, for access to quays, moles and slipways

Nearby fishing

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

• Machico — 5–10 km · Bay
• Porto da Cruz, Madeira — 10–25 km · Rock mark
• Porto Novo, Madeira — 10–25 km · Pier
• The Funchal waterfront — 10–25 km · Harbour wall
• Câmara de Lobos — 25–40 km · Bay
• The Desertas — 25–40 km · Island
• Ribeira Brava, Madeira — 25–40 km · Harbour wall
• Seixal — 25–40 km · Cove

Sources for this place

• JNCC species and habitat conservation advice — Joint Nature Conservation Committee (Conservation authority)Relied on for: Description, designation and habitat characterisation of the named coastal and marine features of the United Kingdom, and the species characteristically associated with them.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
• Cefas science, advice and data on marine and freshwater environments — Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Government fisheries body)Relied on for: Marine environmental science for UK shelf seas: sediment characterisation, estuarine process, shellfish bed distribution, tidal range and the monitoring that describes them.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
• Fishing Madeira, and jigging and popping the Azores islands — GT Fishing (Practitioner report)Relied on for: That the named Madeiran locations are fished from the shore or from a boat for the species given, and the technique and season the operator attaches to each.FishingHQ's interpretation of what it saysPassage read and verified
• Visit Madeira: the regional tourism board's official trail records — Direção Regional do Turismo da Madeira (Visit Madeira), 2026 (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The regional tourism board's official record for the signed route across this peninsula: its length, duration, altitude, protected-area status and the charge for entering it.States this directlyPassage read and verified
• Importance of recreational shore angling in the archipelago of Madeira (northeast Atlantic) — Scientia Marina (CSIC), vol. 84 no. 4, 2020 (Scientific literature)Relied on for: The catch composition of the Madeira archipelago's recreational shore fishery by species and by share of the estimated annual total, from a 2017 creel survey of 653 anglers.States this directlyPassage read and verified

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