West Okement
- EA ecology area
- Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Waterbody IDs
- GB108050008080
- Catchments
- Torridge
West Okement fishing evidence · Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
What fish are in the West Okement?
Monitoring has recorded 4 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1998 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 · 43 events
4 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 22 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 1 sites
- 3–5 years
- 5 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 2 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 22 Jul 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar7 siteslatest 22 Jul 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 2 Aug 2024
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 22 Jul 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
8 shown, newest survey first
Okehampton Castle (Te)
- Survey events
- 18
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 22 Jul 2025
Okehampton Golf Course (Te)
- Survey events
- 18
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 2 Aug 2024
Golf Course (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 2023
Minehouse (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 16 Aug 2023
D/S Meldon Dam (5 min)
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 20 Jul 2023
Castle Road Allotments (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 18 Jul 2023
U/S Meldon bridge*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 2003
Vellake Corner (Sp)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 12 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