AnglerRadar / Rivers / Great Ouse (Brackley to Newport Pagnell) Great Ouse (Brackley to Newport Pagnell) fishing evidence · East Anglia
What fish are in the Great Ouse (Brackley to Newport Pagnell)? Monitoring has recorded 28 species across 22 surveyed sites on this water, between 1988 and 2026. 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 Great Ouse (Brackley to Newport Pagnell)
EA ecology area East Anglia
Waterbody IDs GB105033037860 · GB105033037880 · GB105033037920 · GB105033038000 · GB105033038180
Catchments Upper Ouse 02 · Survey breadth 22 sites · 182 events 28 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
03 · Freshness by site Latest 21 Apr 2026
Within 2 years 5 sites
3–5 years 4 sites
6–10 years 2 sites
Older 11 sites 04 · Trip constraints Permission is not established Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
Search current river conditions & alerts → Compare this evidence with another river → England coarse close season → 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.
Perch Perca fluviatilis 22 sites latest 21 Apr 2026 Pike Esox lucius 22 sites latest 21 Apr 2026 Dace Leuciscus leuciscus 21 sites latest 21 Apr 2026 Bullhead Cottus gobio 20 sites latest 12 Jun 2025 Roach Rutilus rutilus 20 sites latest 21 Apr 2026 Chub Leuciscus cephalus 19 sites latest 21 Apr 2026 Gudgeon Gobio gobio 19 sites latest 21 Apr 2026 Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus 18 sites latest 21 Apr 2026 Stone loach Barbatula barbatula 18 sites latest 12 Jun 2025 Common bream Abramis brama 13 sites latest 12 Jun 2025 Tench Tinca tinca 12 sites latest 21 Apr 2026 Brown / sea trout Salmo trutta 11 sites latest 3 Jun 2025 Ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus 9 sites latest 10 Oct 2016 Spined loach Cobitis taenia 9 sites latest 8 Oct 2019 3-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus 8 sites latest 19 Oct 2022 Brook lamprey Lampetra planeri 8 sites latest 10 Oct 2017 Roach x common bream hybrid Rutilus rutilus x Abramis brama 7 sites latest 18 Jun 2024 Bleak Alburnus alburnus 5 sites latest 17 Jun 2025 Barbel Barbus barbus 4 sites latest 17 Jun 2025 Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus 4 sites latest 12 Jun 2025 Common [wild] carp Cyprinus carpio 2 sites latest 24 Apr 2008 Silver bream Abramis bjoerkna 2 sites latest 11 Jun 1997 Common carp varieties Cyprinus carpio 1 site latest 1 May 2009 European eel Anguilla anguilla 1 site latest 18 May 2006 European eels > elvers Anguilla anguilla 1 site latest 11 Jun 1997 Mirror carp Cyprinus carpio 1 site latest 26 Jun 1991 Roach x chub hybrid Rutilus rutilus x Leuciscus cephalus 1 site latest 31 Oct 2016 Roach x silver bream hybrid Rutilus rutilus x Abramis bjoerkna 1 site latest 19 Apr 1993 Surveyed sites on this water
22 shown, newest survey first
Provenance
Source and licence Source Environment Agency Ecology & Fish Data Licence Open Government Licence v3.0 Source copy retrieved 23 Jul 2026 Waterbody name As published by the Environment Agency Not asserted Current presence, access, permission, fishing quality or safety