Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Medlam Drain?
Monitoring has recorded 15 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 1990 and 2016. 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.
- BleakAlburnus alburnus4 siteslatest 4 Jul 2016
- Common breamAbramis brama4 siteslatest 4 Jul 2016
- PerchPerca fluviatilis4 siteslatest 14 Nov 2016
- PikeEsox lucius4 siteslatest 14 Nov 2016
- RoachRutilus rutilus4 siteslatest 4 Jul 2016
- Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama4 siteslatest 4 Jul 2016
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus4 siteslatest 11 Aug 2011
- RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus4 siteslatest 4 Jul 2016
- Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna4 siteslatest 26 Jun 2013
- Spined loachCobitis taenia4 siteslatest 17 Jun 2016
- TenchTinca tinca4 siteslatest 14 Nov 2016
- GudgeonGobio gobio3 siteslatest 17 May 1993
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 9 May 2008
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 22 May 2006
- Rudd x common bream hybridScardinius erythrophthalmus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 9 Aug 2011
Surveyed sites on this water
4 shown, newest survey first
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