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Ashford Water fishing evidence · Wessex

What fish are in the Ashford Water?

Monitoring has recorded 9 species across 3 surveyed sites on this water, between 2004 and 2013. These are survey records with dates. They do not establish what is present today, that the water is fishable, or that you have permission to fish it.

River evidence passport

Four signals, kept deliberately separate.

The passport shows identity, survey breadth, evidence freshness and trip constraints without turning unlike facts into an opaque “best river” score.

01 · Identity

Ashford Water

EA ecology area
Wessex
Waterbody IDs
GB108043015800 · GB108043015840
Catchments
Avon (Hampshire)
02 · Survey breadth

3 sites · 5 events

9 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 10 Sept 2013

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
3 sites

Recorded species

What monitoring has found here

Ordered by how many sites on this water recorded the species. A species not listed has not been recorded by these surveys — which is not the same as being absent.

  1. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta3 siteslatest 10 Sept 2013
  2. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 10 Sept 2013
  3. GraylingThymallus thymallus2 siteslatest 10 Sept 2013
  4. GudgeonGobio gobio2 siteslatest 7 Sept 2004
  5. RoachRutilus rutilus2 siteslatest 10 Sept 2013
  6. ChubLeuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 10 Sept 2013
  7. Crucian carpCarassius carassius1 sitelatest 10 Sept 2013
  8. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 10 Sept 2013
  9. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 27 Aug 2008

Surveyed sites on this water

3 shown, newest survey first

Provenance

Source and licence

  • SourceEnvironment Agency Ecology & Fish Data
  • LicenceOpen Government Licence v3.0
  • Source copy retrieved23 Jul 2026
  • Waterbody nameAs published by the Environment Agency
  • Not assertedCurrent presence, access, permission, fishing quality or safety