Dymchurch and District Sea Angling Club

Four miles from Dymchurch to an area known as the East Roads is fished throughout the year, bait fishing at anchor can turn up a good variety of species, cod, whiting, dogfish, smoothhounds, pouting, bass and the occasional thornback ray.

The East Roads rough ground is a good place for newcomers or novices to start as it is in easy reach of the slipway and usually provides good sport. In the spring and summer many anglers concentrate their efforts on the many wrecks that are also within easy reach, either drifting for bass, pollack and cod or anchoring for conger and black bream which have been found in increasing numbers in recent years. Those with larger boats can reach the Varne and Bullock banks where it is possible to catch cod, plaice and turbot, as well as collect live sandeels for bass fishing.