River Winster
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB112073071420 · GB112073071440
- Catchments
- South Lakes Minor Catchments
River Winster fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the River Winster?
Monitoring has recorded 4 species across 16 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 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 · 21 events
4 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 4 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 2 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 14 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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta16 siteslatest 4 Jul 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar11 siteslatest 4 Jul 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 4 Jul 2025
- European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 4 Jul 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
16 shown, newest survey first
Nr Bridge House US Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 4 Jul 2025
Bowland Bridge DS Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 4 Jul 2025
D/s Simpson Ground Res, Way Beck
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 2013
Askew
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 19 Oct 1995
Thorphinsty Hall
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 19 Oct 1995
Bridge House
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 12 Oct 1995
Bowland Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 12 Oct 1995
Near Hartbarrow
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 12 Oct 1995
Simpson Ground Beck
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 12 Oct 1995
Cowmire Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 11 Oct 1995
Low Fell
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 11 Oct 1995
Near High Birks
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 11 Oct 1995
U/S High Mill
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 11 Oct 1995
Winster House
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 11 Oct 1995
Burks Brow
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 1995
R. Winster Slate Hill
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 20 Oct 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