UK Fishing Species Guides
Behaviour, best times, and real generated tactics for the UK’s most-fished species.
The UK's largest widespread freshwater predator, found in lakes, canals, rivers, and reservoirs across the country.
The UK's most-fished specimen species by a wide margin, with a dedicated specialist culture built around it.
A striped, spiky-finned shoal predator found in nearly every UK canal, river, and lake — a genuine beginner-friendly species that also rewards specialist light-lure and float tactics as anglers get more precise.
The UK's classic game fishing target, split between wild brown trout in rivers and stocked rainbow (and brown) trout on stillwater fisheries.
The UK's most prized inshore saltwater sport fish — a hard-fighting predator that moves into shallow, structure-rich water to feed and is heavily targeted from both the shore and small boats along the south and west coasts.
A non-native predator first introduced to UK waters in the 1870s, now well established in the Fenland drains and connected river systems of eastern England.
The archetypal UK coarse fish — a silver, shoaling species found in nearly every river, canal, and lake in the country.
A powerful, hard-fighting river specialist found almost exclusively in flowing water, not stillwaters.
A classic English lake species with a long specimen-fishing tradition behind it, tench are bottom feeders strongly associated with the first warm mornings of late spring — the sight of feeding bubbles rising in the margins at dawn is a defining image of the UK tench season.