Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Hodder?
Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 28 surveyed sites on this water, between 1993 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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar24 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta24 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla21 siteslatest 2 Aug 2018
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 31 Aug 2004
- GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2014
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 9 Aug 2010
- Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar1 sitelatest 4 Jul 2023
Surveyed sites on this water
28 shown, newest survey first
Slaidburn Green
- Survey events
- 24
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 2025
D/S Boarsden Farm footbridge
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 6 Aug 2015
D/S Hammerton Hall
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 5 Aug 2015
Burholme Bridge
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 21 Jul 2015
Cross of Greet Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 17 Jul 2015
50m D/S Phynis Beck
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 18 Jun 2013
Lock Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 18 Jun 2013
D/S Dunsop Foot
- Survey events
- 9
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 17 Sept 2009
200m D/S Phynis Beck
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 18 Aug 2005
500m D/S Langden Foot
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 10 Sept 2004
Above Footbridge Birkett Farm
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 10 Sept 2004
Doeford Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 21 Jul 2004
Lower Hodder Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 21 Jul 2004
Newton Sewage Works u/s Road Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 19 Jul 2004
D/S Slaidburn STW
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 2 Oct 2003
Fairoak
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 2 Sept 1998
At weir below Hodder Bank Flats
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 29 Sept 1993
Horse Hey Farm
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 29 Sept 1993
Winckley Hall Farm
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 29 Sept 1993
Backthorn Farm
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 28 Sept 1993
Ing Wood
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 28 Sept 1993
New Plantation
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 28 Sept 1993
Stakes Farm
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 28 Sept 1993
Whitewell Pub
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 28 Sept 1993
D/S Holmehead Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 1993
Wood End Cottages
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 24 Aug 1993
Above Stocks Reservoir
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 16 Aug 1993
Near Collyholme Wood
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 16 Aug 1993
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