What's the best fishing spot in Portmarnock?
Portmarnock Velvet Strand is the lead published mark for Portmarnock: Portmarnock Velvet Strand is a long north Dublin sand beach with room to move, shallow surf character and a published species pattern that includes flounder, bass, smoothhound, dab, dogfish, plaice, codling and whiting. It is not a deep-water pier mark and it should not be sold as a guaranteed bass beach. The honest appeal is mobile surf fishing on clean sand, especially after easterly wind puts colour and life into the beach. Night summer sessions toward the northern rocks are a recurring public pattern, but local access rules and proposed Fingal beach bye-law changes need checking before any session. Open the mark page for access, tides, tactics and the Dublin Bay live score — separate from Wicklow rankings.