Forty Foot Drain
- EA ecology area
- East Anglia
- Waterbody IDs
- GB105033043140 · GB105033043150 · GB105033043160 · GB105033043180
- Catchments
- Middle Level System
Forty Foot Drain fishing evidence · East Anglia
What fish are in the Forty Foot Drain?
Monitoring has recorded 17 species across 6 surveyed sites on this water, between 1987 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.
6 sites · 27 events
17 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 18 Jul 2023
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 1 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 5 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.
- BleakAlburnus alburnus6 siteslatest 18 Jul 2023
- Common breamAbramis brama6 siteslatest 18 Jul 2023
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 11 Sept 1999
- PerchPerca fluviatilis6 siteslatest 18 Jul 2023
- PikeEsox lucius6 siteslatest 18 Jul 2023
- RoachRutilus rutilus6 siteslatest 18 Jul 2023
- Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama6 siteslatest 18 Jul 2023
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus6 siteslatest 18 Jul 2023
- RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus6 siteslatest 18 Jul 2023
- Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna6 siteslatest 18 Jul 2023
- TenchTinca tinca6 siteslatest 1 Jun 2006
- ZanderSander lucioperca6 siteslatest 1 Jun 2006
- GudgeonGobio gobio2 siteslatest 12 Aug 1999
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 6 Jul 2011
- Common bream x silver bream hybridAbramis brama x Abramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 16 Aug 1999
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 15 Aug 1994
- Roach x rudd hybridRutilus rutilus x Scardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 15 Aug 1991
Surveyed sites on this water
6 shown, newest survey first
Badney Drove
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 18 Jul 2023
Ramsey Forty Foot Bridge
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 1 Jun 2006
Puddock Bridge
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 11 Sept 1999
Nightlayers Fen
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 12 Aug 1999
Leonard Childs Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 12
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 1994
Ramsey Hollow
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 12
- Latest survey
- 16 Aug 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