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Pendle Water fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire

What fish are in the Pendle Water?

Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 16 surveyed sites on this water, between 1988 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.

01 · Identity

Pendle Water

EA ecology area
Cumbria and Lancashire
Waterbody IDs
GB112071065170 · GB112071065230 · GB112071065490
Catchments
River Ribble
02 · Survey breadth

16 sites · 60 events

5 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 29 Aug 2025

Within 2 years
1 sites
3–5 years
6 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
9 sites

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.

  1. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta16 siteslatest 29 Aug 2025
  2. European eelAnguilla anguilla14 siteslatest 29 Aug 2025
  3. GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 22 Aug 2023
  4. GudgeonGobio gobio1 sitelatest 29 Jun 1993
  5. PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 21 Aug 2015

Surveyed sites on this water

16 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