Sydling Water
- EA ecology area
- Wessex
- Waterbody IDs
- GB108044009700
- Catchments
- Frome
Sydling Water fishing evidence · Wessex
What fish are in the Sydling Water?
Monitoring has recorded 9 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 2005 and 2017. 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.
5 sites · 7 events
9 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 8 Sept 2017
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 1 sites
- Older
- 4 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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta5 siteslatest 8 Sept 2017
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 8 Sept 2017
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar3 siteslatest 27 Aug 2013
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 6 Oct 2015
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2011
- BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 6 Oct 2015
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 6 Oct 2015
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 27 Aug 2013
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 6 Oct 2015
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
Sydling Water New Channel
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Sept 2017
Upstream of Grimstone
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 6 Oct 2015
Grimstone d/s of weir
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 27 Aug 2013
Sydling u/s Sluice
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 27 Aug 2013
Sydling Confluence
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 24 Aug 2005
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