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There are two sections to shore fishing at Minehead, the Town Beach and Gasworks Beach.
The Town Beach stretches from Mad Brain Sands near Dunster in
the east to the Harbour.
It is made up of mostly clean sand and some shingle
towards the harbour end. The sand was
pumped from off shore to improve the beach
from a tourist/visitors point of view, however
the marine worm life has not yet established
itself.
Recently anglers have taken to fishing along the town's esplanade on the higher
'spring' tides
with good results. The area opposite the Red Lion pub is favourite.
The Gasworks beach starts on the other side of the harbour and
continues to 'White Mark'.
This section is steeply shelving with large rounded
pebbles at the harbour end, increasing in
their size to large rounded stones at
'White Mark'. Once over the stones the ground is clean sand.
The boulders are difficult to walk on and should not be trusted not to move when
stepped on.
The rocks that are covered by the tide are also slippery when exposed by the
tide.
Gasworks looking west from the Harbour wall.
White Mark as seen from the sea.
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