AnglerRadar / Rivers / River Cole River Cole fishing evidence · Thames
What fish are in the River Cole? Monitoring has recorded 21 species across 22 surveyed sites on this water, between 1992 and 2024. 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 River Cole
EA ecology area Thames
Waterbody IDs GB104028042420 · GB104028042501 · GB104028042502 · GB106039023730
Catchments RIVER TRENT · Thames 02 · Survey breadth 22 sites · 60 events 21 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
03 · Freshness by site Latest 8 Aug 2024
Within 2 years 0 sites
3–5 years 1 sites
6–10 years 3 sites
Older 18 sites 04 · Trip constraints 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.
Roach Rutilus rutilus 22 sites latest 8 Aug 2024 Chub Leuciscus cephalus 20 sites latest 8 Aug 2024 Gudgeon Gobio gobio 19 sites latest 8 Aug 2024 Perch Perca fluviatilis 19 sites latest 8 Aug 2024 Dace Leuciscus leuciscus 15 sites latest 8 Aug 2024 Pike Esox lucius 8 sites latest 20 May 2014 Common bream Abramis brama 5 sites latest 8 Aug 2024 Tench Tinca tinca 5 sites latest 20 May 2004 Brown / sea trout Salmo trutta 4 sites latest 8 Aug 2024 Bleak Alburnus alburnus 3 sites latest 24 Jun 2008 European eel Anguilla anguilla 3 sites latest 27 Jun 1995 Common [wild] carp Cyprinus carpio 2 sites latest 14 Aug 2018 3-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus 1 site latest 16 Aug 2018 Common carp varieties Cyprinus carpio 1 site latest 23 Aug 2012 Crucian carp Carassius carassius 1 site latest 19 May 1992 Feral [brown] goldfish Carassius auratus 1 site latest 4 Oct 2000 Golden orfe Leuciscus idus 1 site latest 14 Aug 2018 Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus 1 site latest 16 Aug 2018 Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus 1 site latest 19 May 1992 Silver bream Abramis bjoerkna 1 site latest 14 Aug 2018 Stone loach Barbatula barbatula 1 site latest 16 Aug 2018 Surveyed sites on this water
22 shown, newest survey first
Provenance
Source and licence Source Environment Agency Ecology & Fish Data Licence Open Government Licence v3.0 Source copy retrieved 23 Jul 2026 Waterbody name As published by the Environment Agency Not asserted Current presence, access, permission, fishing quality or safety