Smestow Brook
- EA ecology area
- West Midlands
- Waterbody IDs
- GB109054044710 · GB109054044780 · GB109054049340
- Catchments
- River Severn
Smestow Brook fishing evidence · West Midlands
What fish are in the Smestow Brook?
Monitoring has recorded 7 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 1991 and 2022. 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.
4 sites · 7 events
7 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 31 Mar 2022
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 1 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 3 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
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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.
- GudgeonGobio gobio4 siteslatest 31 Mar 2022
- RoachRutilus rutilus3 siteslatest 31 Mar 2022
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 31 Mar 2022
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 21 May 1991
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 31 Mar 2022
- PikeEsox lucius1 sitelatest 21 May 1991
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 16 May 2000
Surveyed sites on this water
4 shown, newest survey first
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