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Samphire Hoe

Here are a few little tips picked up along the way about Samphire Hoe

• Samphire Hoe (or also known as Fisherman's Foe) near Dover is about a mile long promenade with deep water and rough ground
• Good for codling at Folkestone end during calm weather in February
• Best fished at low water or last two hours of flood
• Open all night on Saturday
• Expect flounders, Rockling, pouting, dabs and small whiting in March (but hope for codling!)
• Take a trolley to lug all your gear on
• This is a rock venue so be prepared to lose tackle i.e. take a load of leads, hooks and shockleader with you!
• The ends are believed to be the best pegs
• Folkestone end is the rockier end
• The least snaggy area is the the 50 - 60 peg section
• There is a steep rock edge at about 70m out which gets most tackle
• The rocks have been filled with tide moved shingle to make the venue slightly less tackle hungry lately
• Use heavy line (try some 50lb braid), a fast retrieve reel (fixed spools are good in that department or a Daiwa SL20SH) and a weak link system on the bottom of one hook traces if fishing on the bottom
• Float fish or fish with booms down the side of the wall for wrassse, pollack, bass, mackerel, garfish, poor cod and pout when in season
• Pouting, codling and dogfish are caught when fishing out farther
• Ragworm good in summer
• Take the mackerel feathers for a high tide in summer but retrieve them quickly to prevent them sinking and catching a rock or two instead of fish
• Whole squid or live small mackerel or pout take the biggest bass in mid summer
• Lug tipped with squid good in winter
• Lug tipped with fish works well
• Codling take peeler crab when they (and you) can get it!
• Frozen peeler works as well
• Study of match results indicate pegs 35, 147 and 195 have been productive in the past
• Be careful not to rub your line against the wall otherwise.....ping!
• Take a drop net to haul up that big one 30' above the water at low tide
• The tide floods from left to right
• Trot out a float with a 6-10' drop in the tide run to cover a big fishing area