Main River Torridge
- EA ecology area
- Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Waterbody IDs
- GB108050008120 · GB108050013930 · GB108050014290 · GB108050014390 · GB108050014500 · GB108050014660
- Catchments
- Torridge
Main River Torridge fishing evidence · Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
What fish are in the Main River Torridge?
Monitoring has recorded 14 species across 34 surveyed sites on this water, between 1997 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.
34 sites · 174 events
14 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 16 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 1 sites
- 3–5 years
- 16 sites
- 6–10 years
- 1 sites
- Older
- 16 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 salar34 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta34 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio31 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus31 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula31 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla17 siteslatest 5 Sept 2011
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla13 siteslatest 16 Sept 2024
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae9 siteslatest 28 Jun 2024
- European elversAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 16 Sept 2024
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus5 siteslatest 8 Aug 2024
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 5 Sept 2011
- GudgeonGobio gobio4 siteslatest 3 Sept 2024
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae3 siteslatest 17 Sept 2024
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2014
Surveyed sites on this water
34 shown, newest survey first
D/S Haytown Bridge (Te)
- Survey events
- 18
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 16 Jul 2025
Dippermill (Dip/WFD)
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 17 Sept 2024
D/S Rothern Bridge (Dip)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 16 Sept 2024
U/S Hut Pool (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 16 Sept 2024
D/S Greatwood (Dip)
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 4 Sept 2024
Tockley (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 4 Sept 2024
U/S Newbridge (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 4 Sept 2024
Settlement (Dip)
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 3 Sept 2024
U/S Yeory Pool (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 9 Aug 2024
Allacott (Dip)
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 2024
U/S Gidcott Mill (Sp)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 2024
D/s Black Torrington Bridge (Dip)
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 5 Aug 2024
Kismeldon Bridge (Sp)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 5 Aug 2024
Castle Hill (Dip)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 23 Jul 2024
Fordmill Farm (Sp)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 23 Jul 2024
D/S Horton Bridge (Te)
- Survey events
- 17
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 28 Jun 2024
Putford Bridge (Sp)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 27 Jun 2024
D/S Hele Bridge (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 19 Oct 2017
Hele Barton (WFDs)*
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 14 Aug 2013
1km D/S Hele Bridge (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 18 Aug 2011
Beaford Bridge (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 17 Aug 2011
Brightley Barton (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 17 Aug 2011
Woodrun (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 16 Aug 2011
Blinsham Ford (Dip)
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 10 Aug 2011
D/S Gidcottmill Bridge (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 10 Aug 2011
Darkham Wood (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 10 Aug 2011
U/S Darkham Wood (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 10 Aug 2011
Weir Wood (Dip)
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 10 Aug 2011
Newton Mill (Sp)*
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 5 Aug 2011
D/S Torrington S.T.W. (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2011
Monument (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 27 Jul 2011
Woodford Bridge (Sp)*
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 2003
D/S Ash Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 2002
Settlement (Sp)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 27 Aug 1998
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