Rame Head, Cornwall

SPECIES:Locals rate this area for its wrasse fishing, but it also produces good returns of huss, conger, mullet, mackerel, garfish and the odd bass. Occasionally tope are hooked, but few landed.

BAITS:Crab is the best ballan wrasse bait, but smaller fish also take lug or rag. Live sandeel are good for summer bass, along with live prawns and again soft crab. Mackerel strips take the gars, with fresh mackerel or a whole squid the top baits for the conger and huss. For mullet fish a flake of mackerel without the skin tight in to the rocks and amongst a light chum of bread and minced mackerel. The chum will also bring in the gars.

TACKLE & TACTICS:The spinning rod and line of 10lbs is ample for the mackerel and gars using float tackle, and use the spinning gear to floatfish a prawn or sandeel for the bass, but up the line strength to 12 to 15lbs.

If you're ledgering for the wrasse, then a 2-4oz bass rod and 20lb line is the best choice. Fish a mono loop paternoster for the wrasse with a 40lb hook length and a size 2/0 Viking hook.

A night session after the conger and huss needs a stiff 5-6oz beachcaster and a reel loaded with 25lb mono and a 60lb shock leader. Opt for a pulley rig ending in a size 4/0 to 6/0 Viking pattern hook.

The ground is rough and snaggy, but the venue fishes well by day for the wrasse, gars and bass, but is especially good at night for the eels and huss.

The whole area fishes well, but the ground to the right of Queener Point is the most favoured where a deep gully holds the bigger wrasse.

LOCATION:Take the car ferry over the Tamar estuary between Plymouth and Torpoint. Follow the A374 to the Ring O Bells pub at Anthony. Now bear left on to a secondary road, turning left again at Tregantle following the coastal road. You can see Rame Head from here and head for the Coastguard Lookout which has a car park adjacent.