ARAnglerRadar evidence & rules

Salmo trutta · England

Where brown / sea trout has been recorded

Environment Agency surveys have recorded brown / sea trout at 10,260 sites across 2,208 waters, between 1973 and 2026. These are monitoring records with dates. They do not establish what is present today, nor that you may fish for it.

Waters

Rivers with the most records

Ordered by how many surveyed sites on each water recorded it. Waters with their own page are linked.

  1. River Wear (North East)106 siteslatest 9 Sept 2025
  2. River Tees (North East)99 siteslatest 10 Oct 2025
  3. River Coquet (North East)83 siteslatest 17 Jun 2026
  4. Test79 siteslatest 9 Oct 2025
  5. River Calder66 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  6. Main river sites64 siteslatest 18 Sept 2025
  7. South Tyne (North East)62 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  8. River Lune49 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  9. River Esk47 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  10. River Kennet47 siteslatest 14 Oct 2025
  11. River Don46 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  12. Main Avon Sites (Wessex)45 siteslatest 14 Oct 2025
  13. Lugg43 siteslatest 10 Oct 2023
  14. Itchen (Solent and South Downs)42 siteslatest 5 Sept 2025
  15. River Aln39 siteslatest 23 Jun 2026
  16. Lymington38 siteslatest 17 Sept 2025
  17. River Ure Tributaries (Yorkshire)37 siteslatest 23 Sept 2025
  18. Main Tamar36 siteslatest 6 Aug 2025
  19. Main River Torridge34 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
  20. River Evenlode34 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  21. River Kent34 siteslatest 21 Oct 2025
  22. River Rede34 siteslatest 7 Jul 2025
  23. River Allen (East & West)33 siteslatest 3 Jul 2025
  24. River Wansbeck33 siteslatest 22 Jun 2026
  25. Main Yealm32 siteslatest 28 Aug 2025
  26. River Derwent (Cumbria and Lancashire)32 siteslatest 15 Jul 2025
  27. River Ribble32 siteslatest 23 Jul 2024
  28. Arrow (West Midlands)31 siteslatest 12 Aug 2024
  29. Main River Exe31 siteslatest 31 Jul 2025
  30. River Teme30 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
  31. Hybridisation Project29 siteslatest 25 Oct 2007
  32. Main Camel29 siteslatest 16 Jun 2026
  33. River Churnet28 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  34. River Aire (Yorkshire)28 siteslatest 1 Jul 2026
  35. Mimram27 siteslatest 25 Sept 2025
  36. Beaulieu26 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  37. Main Tavy26 siteslatest 7 Oct 2025
  38. River Goyt26 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  39. River Nadder26 siteslatest 30 Jul 2025
  40. River Ure (Yorkshire)26 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
  41. North Tyne25 siteslatest 1 Aug 2025
  42. River Caldew25 siteslatest 5 Aug 2024
  43. River Frome (West Midlands)25 siteslatest 3 Sept 2025
  44. Black Brook24 siteslatest 23 Jul 2025
  45. Main Allen (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)24 siteslatest 14 Aug 2025
  46. River Hodder24 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
  47. River Wylye24 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  48. Bollin23 siteslatest 9 Sept 2025
  49. Main River Axe (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)23 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  50. River Taw sites23 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
  51. River Wharfe (Yorkshire)23 siteslatest 30 Sept 2025
  52. River Windrush23 siteslatest 7 Oct 2025
  53. Cumbrian Esk22 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  54. Haweswater Beck inc. Cawdale aka Howes Beck22 siteslatest 25 Jul 2022
  55. River Dearne22 siteslatest 17 Jun 2026
  56. Ullswater tributaries22 siteslatest 17 Jul 2024
  57. Main Fowey21 siteslatest 30 Jul 2025
  58. River Cocker21 siteslatest 7 Aug 2023
  59. River Ehen21 siteslatest 23 Sept 2024
  60. River Keekle21 siteslatest 12 Aug 2024
  61. River Leadon21 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  62. River Petteril21 siteslatest 13 May 2026
  63. River Wyre21 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  64. CPUE River South Tyne Timed Surveys (North East)20 siteslatest 8 Aug 2024
  65. CPUE Wear Timed Surveys (North East)20 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  66. Main Culm20 siteslatest 22 May 2026
  67. Main Lynher20 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
  68. Main River Mole (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)20 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
  69. Northern Burns20 siteslatest 20 Jun 2019
  70. River Dove (West Midlands)20 siteslatest 9 Sept 2025
  71. River Irt20 siteslatest 17 Oct 2025
  72. CPUE Coquet Timed Surveys (North East)19 siteslatest 22 Jul 2024
  73. Chess19 siteslatest 7 Oct 2025
  74. Cod Beck19 siteslatest 29 Sept 2022
  75. Hareden RSA/HMWB 2011 onwards19 siteslatest 16 Oct 2018
  76. Heltondale Beck19 siteslatest 17 Jul 2024
  77. Main Inny19 siteslatest 21 Aug 2025
  78. Main Lyd (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)19 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
  79. Main River Tone19 siteslatest 30 Sept 2025
  80. R. Burn19 siteslatest 30 Sept 2025

Distribution

By ecology region

  • Cumbria and Lancashire2,183 sites
  • Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly1,700 sites
  • Yorkshire1,113 sites
  • West Midlands1,044 sites
  • North East945 sites
  • Wessex815 sites
  • Solent and South Downs548 sites
  • East Anglia520 sites
  • Thames389 sites
  • Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire322 sites
  • Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire275 sites
  • Kent, South London and East Sussex150 sites
  • East Midlands140 sites
  • Hertfordshire and North London116 sites

Regions are the Environment Agency’s own ecology areas. Survey effort is not even across them, so a higher count can reflect more monitoring rather than more fish.

Provenance

Source and licence

  • SourceEnvironment Agency Ecology & Fish Data
  • LicenceOpen Government Licence v3.0
  • Source copy retrieved23 Jul 2026
  • Not assertedCurrent presence, abundance, access, permission or fishing quality
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