Smithy Beck
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB112073071190 · GB112074070010
- Catchments
- River Crake · River Ehen
Smithy Beck fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the Smithy Beck?
Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 9 surveyed sites on this water, between 1991 and 2024. 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.
9 sites · 26 events
6 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 21 Jun 2024
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 1 sites
- 6–10 years
- 2 sites
- Older
- 6 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 trutta9 siteslatest 21 Jun 2024
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar6 siteslatest 21 Jun 2024
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 13 Sept 2021
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 21 Jul 2016
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 15 Aug 2008
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 11 Jul 2007
Surveyed sites on this water
9 shown, newest survey first
DS Road Bridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 21 Jun 2024
PTC Black Beck
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 13 Sept 2021
Blawith
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 1 Sept 2021
Smithy Beck Investigation
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 15 Aug 2008
Kiln Bank
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 30 Jun 1999
Habitat Control Site
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 1997
Test Site (Bottom)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Jul 1997
Test Site (F.Beck)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 8 Jul 1997
Test Site (Top)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 8 Jul 1997
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