AnglerRadar / Rivers / River Tern River Tern fishing evidence · West Midlands
What fish are in the River Tern? Monitoring has recorded 27 species across 17 surveyed sites on this water, between 1992 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 Tern
EA ecology area West Midlands
Waterbody IDs GB109054049680 · GB109054050170 · GB109054055090 · GB109054055100 · GB109054055150
Catchments River Severn 02 · Survey breadth 17 sites · 99 events 27 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
03 · Freshness by site Latest 2 Jun 2025
Within 2 years 1 sites
3–5 years 6 sites
6–10 years 3 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.
Chub Leuciscus cephalus 16 sites latest 3 Jun 2024 Roach Rutilus rutilus 16 sites latest 2 Jun 2025 Gudgeon Gobio gobio 15 sites latest 2 Jun 2025 Dace Leuciscus leuciscus 13 sites latest 3 Jun 2024 Perch Perca fluviatilis 12 sites latest 3 Jun 2024 European eel Anguilla anguilla 11 sites latest 18 Apr 2023 Brown / sea trout Salmo trutta 9 sites latest 2 Jun 2025 Pike Esox lucius 8 sites latest 3 Jun 2024 Pike varieties Esox lucius 8 sites latest 26 Sept 2019 3-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus 7 sites latest 10 Oct 2023 Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus 7 sites latest 3 Jun 2024 European eels > elvers Anguilla anguilla 5 sites latest 16 May 2018 Bleak Alburnus alburnus 3 sites latest 3 Jun 2024 Bullhead Cottus gobio 3 sites latest 3 Jun 2024 Grayling Thymallus thymallus 3 sites latest 8 Dec 2017 Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus 3 sites latest 3 Jun 2024 Stone loach Barbatula barbatula 3 sites latest 10 Oct 2023 Common bream Abramis brama 2 sites latest 3 Jun 2024 Lamprey sp. ammocoetes Petromyzontidae 2 sites latest 17 May 2018 Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss 2 sites latest 21 Apr 2009 Ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus 2 sites latest 26 Sept 2019 Atlantic salmon Salmo salar 1 site latest 16 May 2018 Barbel Barbus barbus 1 site latest 5 May 2009 Brook lamprey Lampetra planeri 1 site latest 10 Oct 2023 Lampetra sp. Lampetra 1 site latest 25 Sept 2018 Lamprey sp. Petromyzontidae 1 site latest 30 Apr 2014 Lamprey sp. > ammocoete Petromyzontidae 1 site latest 17 May 2022 Surveyed sites on this water
17 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