River Leith
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB102076070900 · GB102076074020
- Catchments
- River Eden
River Leith fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the River Leith?
Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 6 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 and 2021. 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.
6 sites · 9 events
6 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 4 Aug 2021
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 1 sites
- Older
- 5 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 trutta6 siteslatest 4 Aug 2021
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar3 siteslatest 3 Jul 2014
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 4 Jul 2014
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 11 Jul 2007
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 8 Jul 2002
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 8 Jul 2002
Surveyed sites on this water
6 shown, newest survey first
River Leith, Great Strickland, Lyvennet
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 4 Aug 2021
Mill House, Strickland, River Leith
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 4 Jul 2014
DS weir at Cliburn, River Leith
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 3 Jul 2014
R. Leith Channel Restoration - fish rescue
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 17 Jun 2014
Gunnerkeld Sike, US Leith confluence
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 31 Jul 2007
River Leith, Cliburn, Lyvennet
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 11 Jul 2007
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