Wauchope Water
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB102077074570
- Catchments
- Border Esk
Wauchope Water fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the Wauchope Water?
Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1985 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 · 30 events
6 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 31 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 1 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 2 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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 31 Jul 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 28 Aug 2007
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar4 siteslatest 11 Sept 2023
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 31 Jul 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula3 siteslatest 16 Jul 1996
- European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 25 Aug 2021
Surveyed sites on this water
8 shown, newest survey first
Below Earshope Hill, Wauchope Water
- Survey events
- 13
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 31 Jul 2025
US Wauchope confluence, Bloch Burn
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 25 Aug 2021
Near Hallcroft, Becks Burn
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 25 Aug 2021
Earshaw Hill, Wauchope Water
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 20 Aug 2002
US Blochburn foot, Wauchope Water
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 16 Jul 1996
Upstream of Langholm, Wauchope Water
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 15 Jul 1996
100m upstream confluence, Back Burn
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 15 Jul 1996
nr Hallcrofts, Wauchope Water
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 11 Jul 1985
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