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Bigholms Burn fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire

What fish are in the Bigholms Burn?

Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 1985 and 2021. 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

Bigholms Burn

EA ecology area
Cumbria and Lancashire
Waterbody IDs
GB102077074570
Catchments
Border Esk
02 · Survey breadth

4 sites · 13 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 25 Aug 2021

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
1 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 trutta4 siteslatest 25 Aug 2021
  2. European eelAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 30 Aug 2007
  3. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula3 siteslatest 15 Sept 2009
  4. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar2 siteslatest 15 Sept 2009
  5. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 25 Aug 2021
  6. European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 29 Sept 2005

Surveyed sites on this water

4 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
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