River Rother (Yorkshire)
- EA ecology area
- Yorkshire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB104027052280 · GB104027057413 · GB104027057630 · GB104027057770
- Catchments
- River Rother catchment
River Rother fishing evidence · Yorkshire
What fish are in the River Rother (Yorkshire)?
Monitoring has recorded 23 species across 16 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.
16 sites · 93 events
23 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 19 Aug 2025
- Within 2 years
- 3 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 1 sites
- Older
- 12 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.
- RoachRutilus rutilus15 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus12 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta11 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- GudgeonGobio gobio11 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
- PerchPerca fluviatilis10 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus9 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus8 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio8 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus8 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- BarbelBarbus barbus7 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula7 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
- PikeEsox lucius4 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus4 siteslatest 1 Jul 2015
- TenchTinca tinca4 siteslatest 22 Jul 2008
- Common breamAbramis brama3 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
- GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
- 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius1 sitelatest 1 Oct 1998
- BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2010
- Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 1 Jul 2013
- Mirror carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 22 Jun 2006
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2010
- Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2010
- Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 28 Jul 2003
Surveyed sites on this water
16 shown, newest survey first
McGregors Pond
- Survey events
- 13
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 19 Aug 2025
Whitting confluence
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 19
- Latest survey
- 29 Jul 2025
Rother Valley Country Park, d/s weir
- Survey events
- 23
- Observed taxa
- 18
- Latest survey
- 28 Jul 2025
Downstream Orgreave weir
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 12
- Latest survey
- 28 Aug 2019
Staveley Lane (B6053)
- Survey events
- 9
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 23 Jul 2014
River Rother at Hepthorpe Lane
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 2011
Ickles
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 2006
Woodhouse washlands (NFMP)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 11 Jul 2006
Killamarsh (ds weir)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 20 Jun 2006
Woodhouse - Fry Survey
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 24 Sept 2003
River Rother at Birdholme Road Bridge
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 19 Jun 2002
Hall Lane
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 21 Oct 1998
Catcliffe
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 20 Oct 1998
River Rother at Holbrook [B6058]
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 29 Oct 1996
Rother Valley Country Park, u/s weir
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 8 Sept 1995
Don confluence
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 25 Feb 1994
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