Popular Crabbing Hotspots Suggested by Our Followers

 

Anglesey

• Beaumaris Pier (bucket and lines from RNLI shop and bait from butchers on main street)

Devon

• Brixham
• Dartmouth, South Devon (along the Embankment)
• Dawlish, South Devon (Coryton Cove rock pools at low tide)
• Dittisham (on the pontoon)
• The Embankment: Kingsbridge, South Devon (near the slipway at the far end of Quay car park)
• Salcombe
• Shaldon, South Devon (rockpooling)
• Stoke Gabriel (near the River Shack Cafe – you can also buy equipment and bait here)
• Teignmouth, South Devon (Back beach)
• Wembury (nr Plymouth), South Devon (rockpooling)

Dorset

• Mudeford

Essex

• Brightlingsea
• Canvey Island (on the seafront of the Eastern Esplanade)
• Clacton-on-Sea (off the sea defence breaker rocks when the tide is up)
• West Mersea

Hampshire

• Warsash (River Hamble Annual Crabbing Competition)

Kent

• Ramsgate (in the old concrete swimming pool when the tide is out!)
• St Margaret’s Bay

Merseyside

• New Brighton

Norfolk

• Wells-Next-Sea
• Blakeney Quay

Suffolk

• Walberswick (home of The British Open Crabbing Championships)
• Felixtowe

Sussex

• West Wittering Beach, West Sussex (the crabbing pool)

Yorkshire

• Staithes, North Yorkshire (near the lifeboat station)
• Whitby, North Yorkshire
• Scarborough, North Yorkshire (steps up to the Sealife Centre are good but needs high tide; the harbour is good on the south side of Scarborough)
• Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire (rockpooling)