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The cliff coast between Puerto del Carmen and Puerto Calero

Rock mark · Salt water · in Lanzarote

A low cliff coast of broken lava between the two harbours, with a walked path along the top and, below it, reefy mixed ground in places and rocky outcrops with deep water immediately in front of them in others. Paths down to the water exist where divers have made them.

Safety: cliffs and rock platforms — can cause serious injury or death. 2 more points apply 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 · 7

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.

Also associated with this ground

Recorded as present here without a documented method or strength behind them.

Red porgy · White seabream · Greater amberjack

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at The cliff coast between Puerto del Carmen and Puerto Calero 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

  • Atlantic mackerel — documented at Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; Playa Quemada, Lanzarote; Puerto Calero, Lanzarote (+1 more)
  • Atlantic horse mackerel — documented at Arrecife and Playa Honda; Arrieta and the Jameos coast; Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote (+5 more)
  • 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)
  • Common octopus — documented at Los Hervideros, Lanzarote; Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote
  • 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)
  • Dusky grouper — documented at Puerto del Carmen harbour, Lanzarote; The Costa Teguise shore, Lanzarote; Arrieta and the Jameos coast (+1 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, Spearfishing.

Methods the sources name for this ground. Each one is explained in full on its own page.

  • 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.

  • Spinning

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

  • Shore diving

    Entering and leaving the water from land under your own power — the most accessible spearfishing and the one where the entry and exit are the dangerous part.

The ground and the water

The ground
A low cliff coast of broken lava between the two harbours, with a walked path along the top and, below it, reefy mixed ground in places and rocky outcrops with deep water immediately in front of them in others. Paths down to the water exist where divers have made them.
Exposure
Sheltered from the trade wind by the island, and open to whatever southerly swell reaches the coast — which is enough to make the lower ledges wet in anything other than calm.
Depth
Uneven and locally very steep. Some of the ground below the path is shallow reef and some of it drops away within a rod's length, which is the practical reason two marks a few hundred metres apart on this coast fish quite differently.

Through the year

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
Ornate wrasse — repeatedly reported, recorded in May.
Butterfly-winged comber — recorded here, recorded in May.
Canary damselfish — recorded here, recorded in May.
Derbio — recorded here, recorded in May.
Diamond lizardfish — recorded here, recorded in May.
Macaronesian sharpnose puffer — recorded here, recorded in May.
Ringneck blenny — recorded here, recorded in May.

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.

Drowning and immersion — Can cause serious injury or death

Mediterranean rock shores drop into deep water within a body length of the edge, so a slip puts somebody into water they cannot stand up in, frequently with no beach within reach and nobody in sight.

What reduces it: Wear a flotation aid rather than carry one, fish rock ground with somebody else, carry a means of calling for help on the person, and treat wet or weeded rock at the water's edge as unusable rather than as careful ground.

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: Underwater fishing is licensed and regulated separately from rod fishing throughout this jurisdiction, with its own age, equipment and distance requirements, and holding a rod licence is not permission to spearfish.

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 cliff coast between Puerto del Carmen and Puerto CaleroPuerto Calero, LanzarotePuerto del Carmen harbour, LanzarotePlaya Quemada, LanzaroteArrecife and Playa HondaPapagayo and Playa BlancaThe Playa Dorada breakwater, Playa BlancaEl Golfo and JanubioLos Hervideros, Lanzarote
The cliff coast between Puerto del Carmen and Puerto Calero 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

  • Species hunting adventures on Lanzarote — a four-part shore diary with a full tally — Something Fishy Going On (angling blog), parts also posted to World Sea Fishing, 2014 (Practitioner report)Relied on for: That this mark is fished from the shore, the ground and access described from it, and the species taken there across one week in May.States this directlyPassage read and verified
  • 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
  • RNLI water safety guidance: cold water shock and Float to Live — Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Water-safety or diver-training authority)Relied on for: Cold water shock and the immersion response, tidal cut-off, and water-safety guidance for shore anglers and small-craft users. Cited for the mechanism, which does not vary by coast.States this directlyPassage read and verified

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