Main Penpont
- EA ecology area
- Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Waterbody IDs
- GB108047007700
- Catchments
- Tamar
Main Penpont fishing evidence · Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
What fish are in the Main Penpont?
Monitoring has recorded 11 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1984 and 2025. 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 · 63 events
11 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 2 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 1 sites
- 3–5 years
- 2 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.
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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar8 siteslatest 2 Jul 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 2 Jul 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 23 Aug 2021
- European eelAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 21 Jun 2010
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 2 Jul 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio3 siteslatest 2 Jul 2025
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 21 Jun 2010
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 2 Jul 2025
- Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar1 sitelatest 24 Jun 2015
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 15 Jun 2010
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 2 Jul 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
8 shown, newest survey first
Trerithick
- Survey events
- 21
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 2 Jul 2025
Trekennick
- Survey events
- 15
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 16 Aug 2024
Bowithick
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 10 Jul 2024
d/s Finches Bridge (spawning bed C )
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 21 Jun 2008
Finches Bridge
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 20 Jul 2005
Tresmaine
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 19 Aug 1999
d/s Finches Bridge (spawning bed B)
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 21 Jun 1996
d/s Finches Bridge (spawning bed A)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 13 Aug 1993
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