Fishing near Liverpool, England

Liverpool sits on the eastern shore of the Mersey estuary in Merseyside, with Liverpool Bay opening out to the Irish Sea to the west. Freshwater fishing centres on the city's park lakes, the River Mersey and its tributaries, and the historic St Helens Canal, while Liverpool Bay draws sea anglers after bass, smoothhound and flatfish.

Top waters to fish near Liverpool

Species & education

Learn what type of fish are in Liverpool, England and what's needed to catch them.

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Atlantic Salmon

Salmo salar

Barbel

Barbus barbus

Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

Common Bream

Abramis brama

Common Carp

Cyprinus carpio

Common Dace

Leuciscus leuciscus

Common Gudgeon

Gobio gobio

Common Roach

Rutilus rutilus

Tench

Tinca tinca

European Eel

Anguilla anguilla

European Grayling

Thymallus thymallus

European Perch

Perca fluviatilis

Northern Pike

Esox lucius

Rainbow Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Rudd

Scardinius erythrophthalmus

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