AnglerRadar / Rivers / River Rye River Rye fishing evidence · Yorkshire
What fish are in the River Rye? Monitoring has recorded 18 species across 11 surveyed sites on this water, between 1997 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 Rye
EA ecology area Yorkshire
Waterbody IDs GB104027067770 · GB104027068200 · GB104027068370 · GB104027068580
Catchments River Derwent (Yorkshire) tributaries 02 · Survey breadth 11 sites · 46 events 18 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
03 · Freshness by site Latest 20 Aug 2025
Within 2 years 1 sites
3–5 years 3 sites
6–10 years 0 sites
Older 7 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 11 sites latest 20 Aug 2025 Grayling Thymallus thymallus 7 sites latest 20 Aug 2025 Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss 6 sites latest 5 Jul 2006 Bullhead Cottus gobio 5 sites latest 20 Aug 2025 Stone loach Barbatula barbatula 3 sites latest 20 Aug 2025 Atlantic salmon Salmo salar 2 sites latest 30 Aug 2018 Barbel Barbus barbus 2 sites latest 3 Sept 2024 Chub Leuciscus cephalus 2 sites latest 3 Sept 2024 Dace Leuciscus leuciscus 2 sites latest 3 Sept 2024 European eels > elvers Anguilla anguilla 2 sites latest 3 Sept 2024 Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus 2 sites latest 20 Aug 2025 Pike Esox lucius 2 sites latest 20 Sept 2005 Gudgeon Gobio gobio 1 site latest 7 Sept 2004 Lampetra sp. Lampetra 1 site latest 15 Aug 2024 Lampetra sp. ammocoetes Lampetra 1 site latest 15 Aug 2022 Lamprey sp. Petromyzontidae 1 site latest 20 Aug 2025 Pike varieties Esox lucius 1 site latest 25 Sept 2001 Roach Rutilus rutilus 1 site latest 28 Aug 2003 Surveyed sites on this water
11 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