Colton Beck
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB112073071180
- Catchments
- South Lakes Minor Catchments
Colton Beck fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the Colton Beck?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 and 2023. 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.
8 sites · 14 events
5 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 13 Jul 2023
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 1 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 7 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
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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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 13 Jul 2023
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 13 Jul 2023
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar2 siteslatest 12 Jul 1994
- European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 16 Sept 2019
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 22 Jul 2022
Surveyed sites on this water
8 shown, newest survey first
D/S Beckside Farm
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 2023
Midway - Bandrake & Colton
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 2015
Bandrake Head
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 2015
Meadows
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 1994
Oxen Park
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 1994
Stockwood
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 1994
Waste Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 12 Jul 1994
Colton Beck Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Jul 1994
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