Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Main River Mole (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)?
Monitoring has recorded 13 species across 20 surveyed sites on this water, between 1996 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.
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 salar20 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta20 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio16 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula9 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 8 Aug 2016
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae7 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus7 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae6 siteslatest 24 May 2023
- European elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra3 siteslatest 19 May 2022
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 9 Jul 2014
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 24 May 2023
Surveyed sites on this water
20 shown, newest survey first
Head Bridge (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 19 Aug 2025
Mole Bride (Dip)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 19 Aug 2025
South Wood (Sp)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 18 Aug 2025
Wampford Bridge (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 18 Aug 2025
Heasley Mill (Sp)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 13 Aug 2025
South Molton Rugby Ground (Sp)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 5 Aug 2025
North Heasley Mine (Te)
- Survey events
- 18
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 10 Jul 2025
Bicknor Top Site (5 min)
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 18 Sept 2023
North Molton (5 min)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 18 Sept 2023
South Wood (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 18 Sept 2023
North Heasley Mine (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 24 Jul 2023
Little Hele Wood (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 24 May 2023
Parkhouse*
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 24 May 2023
U/S Riverside Caravan Park
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 24 May 2023
Higher Water Town (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 11 Sept 2012
South Molton (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2012
Coppice Field (Sp)*
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 2 Sept 2009
Bicknor Bridge - coppice (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 19 Oct 2007
Alswear (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 30 Aug 2005
Lenton (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 3 Sept 1996
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