AnglerRadar / Rivers / River Manifold River Manifold fishing evidence · West Midlands
What fish are in the River Manifold? Monitoring has recorded 13 species across 15 surveyed sites on this water, between 1998 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.
01 · Identity River Manifold
EA ecology area West Midlands
Waterbody IDs GB104028052670 · GB104028052890 · GB104028052920 · GB104028058030
Catchments RIVER TRENT 02 · Survey breadth 15 sites · 50 events 13 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
03 · Freshness by site Latest 30 Sept 2025
Within 2 years 5 sites
3–5 years 0 sites
6–10 years 0 sites
Older 10 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.
Brown / sea trout Salmo trutta 15 sites latest 30 Sept 2025 Grayling Thymallus thymallus 8 sites latest 25 Sept 2025 Bullhead Cottus gobio 6 sites latest 30 Sept 2025 Stone loach Barbatula barbatula 6 sites latest 30 Sept 2025 Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus 4 sites latest 30 Sept 2025 Brook lamprey Lampetra planeri 3 sites latest 24 Sept 2015 Brook lamprey ammocoetes Lampetra planeri 3 sites latest 15 Apr 2010 Lamprey sp. > ammocoete Petromyzontidae 3 sites latest 25 Sept 2025 Lamprey sp. ammocoetes Petromyzontidae 3 sites latest 30 Sept 2025 Lampetra sp. Lampetra 2 sites latest 22 Oct 2019 Brook lamprey > ammocoete Lampetra planeri 1 site latest 5 Sept 2013 Lamprey sp. Petromyzontidae 1 site latest 10 Oct 2017 River lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis 1 site latest 1 Oct 2013 Surveyed sites on this water
15 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