Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Whillan Beck?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 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.
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 trutta5 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar4 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- European elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 22 Aug 2007
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
Beckfoot Station, Whillan Beck
- Survey events
- 9
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 19 Aug 2025
Boot
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 19 Aug 2025
Whillan Beck US Road Bridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 26 Sept 2024
At Boot Station CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 26 Sept 2024
Gill Bank, Whillan Beck
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 22 Sept 1994
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