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Grateful thanks to Dave Collins of Moccas for two tips: firstly that the Leen is fishing very well, and secondly not to expect much surface activity. So I spent some time tinkering with a leader to get a double weighted nymph set-up suitable for the current and the depths of the holes to be searched. Eventually the grayling started to come regularly, although I can't tell you how many nymphs I lost on snags. Never mind, my first time on the Leen, which has enough interesting fishing to occupy all of an autumn day. 20 x grayling 8-16 inches. The best five fish, four of them from the same run, were one at 14 inches, two at 15 inches and two at 16 inches. Plus 8 x out of season trout 10 - 14 inches, three of them wild Arrow fish and five stockies.

Had a very enjoyable day caught plenty of grayling and the odd trout, fished a combination of nymphs and drys (pheasant tails and klinkhammer). One of the grayling had a nasty cormorant scar on it's back, all fish were returned safely.

First time on this delightful and varied fishery. Caught more out-of-season browns than grayling. Beautiful golden-bellied and golden-finned wild browns of 6-10 inches and a 14 inch stockie that was just about the only fish that rose all day! No fly, and hardly a rise, didn't deter fish from taking a hare's ear emerger. Other fish taken on bugs and nymphs. Removed many Himalayan Balsam seeds from various parts of my anatomy when I got home - what a plague this stuff is! Thankfully those really big Arrow floods of a couple of weeks back had flattened much of it, with the downside that many of their progeny are now well downstream.