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12 places near Berwick-upon-Tweed
Ordered by distance from the town centre, within about 120 km. Not ranked, not recommended, and not a statement that you may fish at any of them.
337 more places between 120 km and 400 km. They are a journey rather than a local trip.
Rules and access in England — covers 7 of these results
FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. Shore angling in England is not rod-licensed, but access rights, landowner permission, local authority and harbour byelaws, national and inshore fisheries measures, and site designations all apply and all change. Check the current position with the relevant inshore fisheries and conservation authority, the harbour or local authority, and the landowner before going.
Who to ask:
- The Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority for the district, which makes and enforces inshore byelaws.
- The Marine Management Organisation, for national recreational sea fishing measures in English waters.
- The local authority and, where one exists, the harbour authority, for access, byelaws and shellfish classification.
- The relevant Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority for the district, which makes and enforces inshore byelaws including those on bait collection.
- The harbour authority or commissioners, for fishing from piers, breakwaters and harbour structures, where permission is a local matter and changes.
- Natural England and the relevant protected site body, where a designation affects access or collection.
- The Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the RNLI, for safety guidance on this coast.
Rules and access in Scotland — covers 3 of these results
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.
Who to ask:
- 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 Scottish marine and fisheries authorities, for sea fisheries rules, minimum sizes, protected areas and species restrictions
- The relevant district salmon fishery board, for anything concerning migratory salmon and sea trout
- The local authority environmental health service, for shellfish harvesting classification and closures
- The harbour authority for any working harbour, which is operational infrastructure rather than public space
- The body managing any conservation designation on the stretch concerned
Rules and access in Scotland — covers 2 of these results
FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. Scotland has no general rod licence, and the fishing rights on almost every river and loch belong to somebody: a proprietor, an estate, an angling association or a district salmon fishery board. Permission is a separate question from access, and both change. Check with the relevant fishery board or association before going.
Who to ask:
- The district salmon fishery board for the catchment, where the water holds migratory fish.
- The proprietor, estate or angling association that holds the fishing rights.
- The Scottish Government, for freshwater fisheries policy and protection orders.
- The river's statutory commission, which is the governing body for fisheries on the whole Tweed catchment including the English parts.
- The owner of the fishing rights or their letting agent, whose permission is required to fish any beat.
- The national fisheries and conservation authorities of Scotland and England, for salmon conservation regulation, stock assessment and species protection.
- The river trust or foundation working on habitat, catchment management and juvenile monitoring in the system.
- The biosecurity and invasive species authorities of both countries, for the equipment cleaning requirements that apply to anglers moving between waters.
- The River Tweed Commission, which regulates fishing across the whole Tweed district under the Tweed Regulation Order and is the authority for seasons, methods and conservation measures on both sides of the border
- The proprietor, estate or angling association letting the beat, which holds the fishing right and is the only route to permission
- The local angling associations at Peebles, Innerleithen, Galashiels, Selkirk, Kelso, Coldstream and Berwick, which hold club water on the main river and its tributaries
Spittal and Goswick
under 10 km to the south-east · Beach · Salt water
What you can catch: European flounder · Dab · Atlantic cod · European sea bass · Pollack
Fishing: Sea fishing
Ground: Sand running south from the Tweed mouth past Spittal to the Goswick flats, with the river's channel at one end and low rock scars showing through the sand along the way. Clean ground with hard patches, and the Tweed colouring it after rain.
Watch for: cold water shock, cliffs and rock platforms, tides and being cut off.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for England above.
The Needle's Eye
under 10 km to the south · Rock mark · Salt water
What you can catch: European sea bass · Pollack
Fishing: Sea fishing
Ground: A pierced sandstone stack and the ledges around it on the cliff coast south of Berwick, with deep water below the rock and no beach beneath it. Summer ground: it is a lure mark rather than a bait one.
Watch for: cliffs and rock platforms, cold water shock, tides and being cut off.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for England above.
Eyemouth
10–25 km to the north-west · Harbour wall · Salt water
East Lothian and the Firth of Forth coast
What you can catch: Atlantic cod · Saithe · Ballan wrasse · Atlantic mackerel · Conger eel · European lobster and 1 more
Fishing: Sea fishing
Ground: A working fishing harbour cut into a hard volcanic and greywacke coast, with a narrow rock-walled entrance, deep water inside and heavy reef ground on both sides outside.
Watch for: cliffs and rock platforms, cold water shock.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for Scotland above.
Holy Island and the Lindisfarne causeway
10–25 km to the south-east · Island · Salt water
What you can catch: Atlantic cod · European flounder · Atlantic mackerel · European sea bass · Whiting
Fishing: Sea fishing
Ground: A low sandstone and dune island separated from the Northumberland mainland by two miles of drying sand and mudflat, with a metalled causeway across it. Hard rock and boulder on the north and east shores, clean sand elsewhere, and vast intertidal flats to the south and west.
Watch for: tides and being cut off, cold water shock, cliffs and rock platforms.
Particular to this water: This ground carries conservation designations that constrain access, vehicles, bait collection and disturbance independently of any fishing rule.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for England above.
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St Abbs Head
10–25 km to the north-west · Headland · Salt water
East Lothian and the Firth of Forth coast
What you can catch: Ballan wrasse · Pollack · Atlantic cod · Atlantic mackerel · European lobster · Edible crab
Fishing: Sea fishing · Spearfishing
Ground: Hard volcanic rock rising in cliffs of over ninety metres, with clean, exceptionally clear water beneath and a kelp-covered reef system running offshore. The clarity is unusual for the North Sea and is why this is Scotland's best-known shore diving ground as well as an angling one.
Watch for: cliffs and rock platforms, cold water shock.
Particular to this water: This ground carries conservation designations that constrain access, vehicles, bait collection and disturbance independently of any fishing rule.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for Scotland above.
The Tweed at Coldstream
10–25 km to the south-west · River reach · Fresh water
What you can catch: Atlantic salmon · Brown trout · Grayling
Fishing: Fly fishing
Ground: The lower river where it stops being in a country and starts being between two. Here the Tweed is itself the Anglo-Scottish border, Coldstream on the Scottish bank and Northumberland on the other, and Smeaton's bridge across it listed twice for the same arches — Category A in Scotland, Grade II in England. Big, broad, steady water in the Kelso-to-Coldstream stretch the letting trade calls the super-prime beats. An angler here is inside the Tweed district whichever bank they stand on, which is why this reach is recorded.
Watch for: moving water and currents, cold water shock.
Particular to this water: The Tweed is let, beat by beat: the fishing is a property right, and a rod on a named beat is there because it was booked. No Environment Agency rod licence is required anywhere in this catchment, including its English ground, because the district is regulated under its own legislation — do not read that as the fishing being open. The Tweed carries its own statutory season, fly-only periods and conservation measures, all set by instruments that are amended. No date or killing limit is published here. Ask the River Tweed Commission and the beat.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for Scotland above.
Bamburgh and Budle Bay
25–50 km to the south-east · Beach · Salt water
What you can catch: Atlantic cod · Whiting · Dab · European flounder · European plaice · European sea bass
Fishing: Sea fishing
Ground: Clean sand beach beneath the dolerite crag the castle stands on, with the Whin Sill outcropping as low reef at either end and the drying sand and mud of Budle Bay behind the northern point.
Watch for: cliffs and rock platforms, tides and being cut off, cold water shock.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for England above.
Seahouses harbour
25–50 km to the south-east · Harbour wall · Salt water
What you can catch: Atlantic mackerel · Saithe · Atlantic cod · European plaice
Fishing: Sea fishing
Ground: A small working harbour with stone piers over clean sand, sheltered behind the Farne Islands' reef platform which breaks the worst of the swell a mile offshore.
Watch for: cliffs and rock platforms, tides and being cut off, cold water shock.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for England above.
North Sunderland Point
25–50 km to the south-east · Headland · Salt water
What you can catch: Atlantic cod · Pollack · Ballan wrasse
Fishing: Sea fishing
Ground: The whinstone point north of Seahouses harbour, with hard dolerite ledges stepping into deep water and the Farne Islands offshore. Rough ground and the tidal stream between the shore and the islands running past it.
Watch for: cliffs and rock platforms, cold water shock, tides and being cut off.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for England above.
The Junction Pool
25–50 km to the south-west · Confluence · Fresh water
What you can catch: Atlantic salmon · Brown trout · Grayling
Fishing: Fly fishing
Ground: Where the Teviot comes into the Tweed at Kelso, and by common consent the most famous salmon pool in the world. The interest is the confluence itself: two substantial rivers meeting at the town, with the holding water running roughly two hundred metres above and below the meeting of the streams. It is the head of a beat of about a mile and a half of double bank with eleven pools, fished by no more than six rods, from the bank and from a boat with a boatman. Fly only in the earliest and latest parts of the season; spinning is allowed between, and treble hooks are not.
Watch for: moving water and currents, cold water shock.
Particular to this water: The Tweed is let, beat by beat: the fishing is a property right, and a rod on a named beat is there because it was booked. No Environment Agency rod licence is required anywhere in this catchment, including its English ground, because the district is regulated under its own legislation — do not read that as the fishing being open. The Tweed carries its own statutory season, fly-only periods and conservation measures, all set by instruments that are amended. No date or killing limit is published here. Ask the River Tweed Commission and the beat.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for Scotland above.
Torness and Skateraw
25–50 km to the north-west · Rock mark · Salt water
East Lothian and the Firth of Forth coast
What you can catch: Atlantic cod · Saithe · Ballan wrasse · Atlantic mackerel · European flounder · European sea bass and 1 more
Fishing: Sea fishing
Ground: A low rock and boulder shore of Old Red Sandstone and limestone beside a power station cooling outfall, with clean sand bays between the scars and a warmed plume offshore.
Watch for: cliffs and rock platforms, cold water shock.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for Scotland above.
Beadnell Bay
25–50 km to the south-east · Bay · Salt water
What you can catch: Atlantic cod · Whiting · Dab · European flounder · European plaice · European sea bass
Fishing: Sea fishing
Ground: A wide crescent of clean sand between two dolerite points, with a limestone reef running out from the southern horn and the only west-facing harbour on the English east coast at its northern end.
Watch for: cliffs and rock platforms, tides and being cut off, cold water shock.
Being listed is not permission. See rules and access for England above.
About these results
FishingHQ does not know whether you may fish at any of these places. Access rights, land ownership, permits, licences, byelaws, closures, protected areas, size limits and method restrictions all apply, all differ, and all change. Every result names the authority that holds the answer. Ask them.
What this tool is, and what it is not
A distance-ordered list of publicly documented fishing places near a town, drawn from the places FishingHQ documents. It is a way of finding out what KIND of fishing geography is near you and what the ground there is like.
It is not a ranking, a recommendation or a directory. Nothing here is described as best, and the order is distance from the town you chose — a measurement, not an opinion.
Distances are bands rather than figures, and are measured from a town centre to the middle of a named public place. They are good enough to tell you what is nearby and are not navigation.
The hazards shown are those recorded for the place and for the coast or water it sits on. The absence of a hazard is not a clearance, and no list of hazards makes anywhere safe.
Where this comes from
Every place here is built from publicly documented geography: charting, conservation and fisheries bodies for what the ground is, and published angling sources for the fact that it is fished. Each one names what established it. None of them is a secret mark, and none was inferred from private information.
Coverage is deliberately incomplete and the gaps are measured rather than hidden. FishingHQ tracks how much publicly documented fishing geography exists against how much of it is held here; at the time of writing that is a small fraction, and a town returning few results says more about the coverage than about the coast.
Positions are approximate public geography, capped at about a hundred metres, and are never shown. They exist so that places can be sorted by distance and grouped under the coast or water system they belong to.