AnglerRadar / Rivers / River Nidd (Yorkshire) River Nidd fishing evidence · Yorkshire
What fish are in the River Nidd (Yorkshire)? Monitoring has recorded 32 species across 20 surveyed sites on this water, between 1984 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 Nidd (Yorkshire)
EA ecology area Yorkshire
Waterbody IDs GB104027068291 · GB104027068292 · GB104027068293 · GB104027068380
Catchments River Nidd 02 · Survey breadth 20 sites · 168 events 32 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
03 · Freshness by site Latest 21 Aug 2025
Within 2 years 7 sites
3–5 years 3 sites
6–10 years 2 sites
Older 8 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.
Bullhead Cottus gobio 17 sites latest 21 Aug 2025 Grayling Thymallus thymallus 17 sites latest 8 Jul 2025 Brown / sea trout Salmo trutta 16 sites latest 21 Aug 2025 Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus 16 sites latest 21 Aug 2025 Stone loach Barbatula barbatula 15 sites latest 21 Aug 2025 Gudgeon Gobio gobio 13 sites latest 17 Jul 2025 Chub Leuciscus cephalus 12 sites latest 13 Aug 2025 Barbel Barbus barbus 10 sites latest 17 Jul 2025 Dace Leuciscus leuciscus 10 sites latest 13 Aug 2025 European eel Anguilla anguilla 9 sites latest 24 Sept 2015 European eels > elvers Anguilla anguilla 9 sites latest 7 Jul 2025 Perch Perca fluviatilis 9 sites latest 13 Aug 2025 Pike Esox lucius 9 sites latest 13 Aug 2025 Roach Rutilus rutilus 9 sites latest 13 Aug 2025 Ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus 8 sites latest 9 Jul 2025 Bleak Alburnus alburnus 7 sites latest 13 Aug 2025 Atlantic salmon Salmo salar 6 sites latest 7 Jul 2025 3-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus 5 sites latest 9 Jul 2025 Pike varieties Esox lucius 5 sites latest 4 Aug 2011 Common bream Abramis brama 3 sites latest 23 Jun 2016 Lampetra sp. > ammocoete Lampetra 2 sites latest 3 Jul 2019 Lampetra sp. ammocoetes Lampetra 2 sites latest 21 Aug 2019 Lamprey sp. Petromyzontidae 2 sites latest 9 Sept 2015 River lamprey ammocoetes Lampetra fluviatilis 2 sites latest 18 Jul 2017 10-spined stickleback Pungitius pungitius 1 site latest 19 Aug 2015 Brook lamprey ammocoetes Lampetra planeri 1 site latest 21 Sept 2017 Brown / sea trout x salmon hybrid Salmo trutta x Salmo salar 1 site latest 30 Jun 2022 Lampetra sp. Lampetra 1 site latest 7 Sept 2015 Lamprey sp. ammocoetes Petromyzontidae 1 site latest 22 Jul 2015 River lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis 1 site latest 24 Sept 2015 Sea lamprey > ammocoete Petromyzon marinus 1 site latest 20 Jun 2013 Silver bream Abramis bjoerkna 1 site latest 17 Jul 2025 Surveyed sites on this water
20 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