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- The lawful days are set by Orden 17.09.2009, article 13.2: Saturday, Sunday and public holidays for most of the year, plus the whole week from Maundy Thursday to Easter and between May and September. On a beach, also go at dawn: bass feed in low light and in summer this fills with people.
- tide
- With 3.4 m of range on springs the waterline shifts enormously: at low tide sandbars appear with channels between them, and water pours out through those channels on the ebb. That flow is comfortable to drift with and very uncomfortable to swim back against, so go in on the flood.
- shelter
- A Lanzada is a long sandy stretch wide open to the west-southwest with nothing in front of it: in the 220–305° sector it breaks from end to end, and at 285° there is no corner left to hide in. Only at the rocky end, tight against the stones, is there workable water when the wind swings south.
- conditions
- The bottom is sand with patches of stone, so visibility depends on the day before: with a flat sea you get four or five metres, and with any leftover swell it turns milky. The sea bass come into exactly that dirty shore-break water, and that is precisely what makes the place worth it.
- hazard
- Shore break and rip currents between the bars: with any ground swell this beach does not forgive. In summer there are bathers and you must stay clear of them; Ons, part of the Illas Atlánticas National Park, is about 4.8 km off and spearfishing is banned there. Pollack is catch-and-release from 1 January to 30 April.
- access
- There is parking right off the PO-550 and you walk the sand to the rocks at the end; no scrambling involved. Get in over the beach and swim a couple of minutes out to the stone. If it is breaking, do not exit against the rocks: come back along the sand even if it means a four-hundred-metre walk.
South end of A Lanzada beach; sea bass in the shore break, only with little sea.
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