Puerto de la Cruz

Fish documented nearby, not here

Nothing below has been documented at Puerto de la Cruz 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.

• 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.

• Eging

  Jigging for squid and cuttlefish with a barbed, weighted lure worked in lifts and pauses — a Japanese discipline with its own tackle, vocabulary and competitive scene.

• 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.

The ground and the water

The ground

The small fishing harbour and the lava ledges either side of it on the north coast, with the old mole giving hard standing and the natural rock of the Punta Brava shore running west from the town.

Exposure

Open north; the harbour mole is the only shelter on this stretch.

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 fishing dock in the middle of a large resort town on the north coast of Tenerife, below the old quarter. The harbour authority states that its location and configuration admit only small boats, most of which remain stranded or anchored under the dyke and the jetty — which is a description of the shelter as much as of the boats.

Public transport

The island's interurban bus network runs a north-coast line connecting Puerto de la Cruz with Icod de los Vinos, Garachico, Los Silos and Buenavista del Norte, and the town has a bus station. The operator publishes the route; times and fares are theirs 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

• Drinking water

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

• Food or shelter

  A bar and restaurant and a café operate at the dock. Opening is the operators' business rather than the port's.

• Harbour facilities

  A working fishing dock with electricity and water, a dry dock with an eight-tonne crane, a tow truck and twenty-four-hour security. A twenty-four-member fishermen's association operates a point of first sale here.

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 any marine protected area in which fishing is proposed.
• The Spanish national fisheries administration for offshore waters and for matters reserved to it.
• The harbour authority of the port used, for berthing, launching and charter arrangements.
• International fishery bodies whose measures apply to billfish and large pelagic species taken in Atlantic waters.

Nearby fishing

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

• Playa de los Patos and El Bollullo, Tenerife — 5–10 km · Beach
• The El Sauzal coast — 10–25 km · Cliff coast
• Candelaria — 10–25 km · Rock platform
• Garachico — 10–25 km · Rock platform
• Bajamar — 25–40 km · Rock platform
• Punta del Hidalgo, Tenerife — 25–40 km · Rock platform
• The Canary offshore grounds — 25–40 km · Sea area
• La Dársena Pesquera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife — 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
• 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
• 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
• Puertos Canarios: the port file cards for Tenerife and the western islands — Puertos Canarios (Gobierno de Canarias) (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The regional harbour authority describing its own dock, including its statement that only small boats can enter and most end up stranded or anchored under the wall, and that there is no car park.States this directlyPassage read and verified
• TITSA: the Tenerife interurban bus network — Transportes Interurbanos de Tenerife (TITSA) (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The island bus operator's own line page, establishing that a scheduled interurban service reaches this place.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly

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