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Port Logan

Harbour wall · Salt water · in The Solway Firth

A small stone-piered village harbour on the exposed west side of the Rhins of Galloway, with a shallow sandy bay inside the pier and a run of greywacke cliffs and broken rough ground falling into deep water immediately south of it.

Safety: tides and being cut off — 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 a kayak · 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.
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.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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 small stone-piered village harbour on the exposed west side of the Rhins of Galloway, with a shallow sandy bay inside the pier and a run of greywacke cliffs and broken rough ground falling into deep water immediately south of it.
Exposure
Open west to the North Channel and the Irish Sea, and fished on the days the wind is anywhere but westerly — the angler who documents it repeatedly describes running here to beat a front coming the other way.

Through the year

The published sessions run from early April to late November, with four of the six in April or May. Pollack are in all of them; cuckoo wrasse, haddock and mackerel appear only in the August one.

The months the sources attach to each species here. Where a species carries no season it is listed underneath rather than assumed to run through the year.

The months in which each species is recorded as caught at this location.
SpeciesJFMAMJJASOND
Atlantic cod — repeatedly reported, recorded in May, August, November.
Atlantic mackerel — repeatedly reported, recorded in August.
Cuckoo wrasse — repeatedly reported, recorded in August.
Haddock — repeatedly reported, recorded in August.
Pollack — repeatedly reported, recorded in April, May, August, November.
Saithe — repeatedly reported, recorded in April, May.

Safety

Tides and being cut off — Can cause serious injury or death

Ledges, skerries and boulder ground below a cliff are reached over rock that the flood covers, and on a coast with a large range that happens quickly. The way back is a scramble rather than a walk, so it becomes unusable while there is still dry rock to stand on, and swell breaking over the covered ground removes it earlier than the tide table suggests.

What reduces it: Work out the way back before going down, and set the time you will leave from the tide rather than from the fishing. Treat the first wave that reaches the return route as the signal to take it, not as a warning that there is time left. Do not go down onto low ground alone on a rising tide, and carry a means of calling for help on the person.

Worse when:

  • Spring tides, when the range and the rate of covering are greatest
  • Any swell, which breaks over ground the tide has not yet reached
  • Onshore wind and low pressure, which put the water above the predicted level
  • Wet rock and weed, which make a return route slower on the way back than it was on the way down

Rules and access

FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. Sea angling in Scotland is not rod-licensed, but access rights under the Scottish Outdoor Access Code carry responsibilities, and harbour, local authority, marine conservation and fisheries measures all apply and all change. Check the current position with the Marine Directorate, the harbour or local authority and the land manager before going.

Particular to this water: A working village harbour with a slipway. Whether it may be used to launch is the harbour's decision, and FishingHQ does not hold that answer.

Who holds the answer:

  • The Scottish Government Marine Directorate, for sea fisheries measures in Scottish waters.
  • The harbour authority or land manager, for access to the structure or the ground.
  • The local authority, for shellfish harvesting classification.
  • The relevant national fisheries administration for the shore concerned — different bodies apply on the English and Scottish sides of the same firth
  • The relevant salmon fishery board or migratory fisheries authority, for anything concerning salmon and sea trout
  • The local authority environmental health service, for shellfish harvesting classification and public health closures
  • The coastguard, for tidal and safety information, and as the service that will be called if somebody is cut off
  • Local clubs and long-established practitioners, whose knowledge of channel positions is operative safety information rather than a courtesy

Nearby fishing

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

Port LoganThe Mull of GallowayLuce Bay and SandheadPortpatrickLoch Ryan and StranraerBurrow HeadBallyhalbertDonaghadee pierThe Isle of Whithorn
Port Logan 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

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

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