River Brathay
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB112073071110 · GB112073071450
- Catchments
- River Leven
River Brathay fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the River Brathay?
Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 10 surveyed sites on this water, between 1992 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.
10 sites · 28 events
6 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 31 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 2 sites
- 3–5 years
- 2 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 6 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 trutta10 siteslatest 31 Jul 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar5 siteslatest 31 Jul 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 13 Aug 2024
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 31 Jul 2025
- European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 31 Jul 2025
- PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 13 Aug 2024
Surveyed sites on this water
10 shown, newest survey first
US Brathay Bridge Clappersgate
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 31 Jul 2025
Moss Rigg
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 3 Jul 2025
Brathay us Clappersgate CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 13 Aug 2024
Brathay ds Skelwith Bridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2024
Skelwith Bridge, River Brathay
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 12 Sept 2013
Stang End
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 9 Sept 1996
Fell Foot
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 1996
Near Colwith
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 1996
DS Measure Gauge #1
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 18 Jul 1994
DS Measure Gauge #2
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 18 Jul 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