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Not fished this beat for a year or so since when it looks to have been tidied up somewhat with access easier as a consequence. No fish caught today however.

This beat was fished by two members of the Grayling Society on this occasion.

2 Trout, 7 Grayling

3 x grayling 6-14 inches, 5 x out of season trout 10-14 inches, Tungsten Hare's Ear and Pink Shrimp. A warmish cloudy day with the Arrow up by a a couple of inches, but still clear. Grayling seemed to be in a difficult mood. Unfortunately the out of season trout were very much to the fore, taking bugs, rising to a hatch of large dark olives after lunch and cutting redds - all these activities in the one day. What did please me was bumping into the otter, who was giving my favourite pool the works - and I managed to get his photograph for once!

3 Grayling

Very low levels with most fish at the bottom of the bigger pools, still a really enjoyable half day with fish taking pink beaded nymphs. Lovely quiet beat with easy wading.

2 Grayling

2 rods trotting. The fish were caught from the deeper holes mainly upstream of the bridge, best grayling was maybe 1.06lb and trout similar. Lovely fishery and the farmers stopped for a friendly chat.
A bit worried for the future as 3 large cormorants were working the water below the bridge in water that didn't cover their backs, one even dropped a lucky trout in his surprise at seeing me. Fished Eardisland the day before for almost no fish, maybe a similar issue there.

8 Trout, 20 Grayling

Caught 2 grayling at the upper limit of the fishery but levels were much lower than anticipated which made presentation tough. Decided to knock it on the head until it's had a good flush through. Amazing how dynamic this part of the Arrow is and can't wait to get back.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

A really nice day, water seemed very good, my first go fishing for grayling, banks very overgrown, struggled to get to water in lots of places, will try again, lost small trout, and grayling

1 Grayling

Started mid day after heavy rain on a very very slow moving river. nymphing and dry on the bottom section below bridge only produced two trout of 12-13 inches and one grayling of 8 inches. once up past the bridge there were areas of pacier water where the rest of the grayling came from all between 12- 16 inches. the rest of the trout came from the top of the beat all taking size 20 dry . this is a great beat just needs a few days rain to raise levels to get that water moving

8 Trout, 7 Grayling

I booked the Leen beat as a Christmas present for my Dad in hope of catching him his first grayling.
The river was in perfect nick and the weather was warm so we had no excuses not to catch. The trout were hard on the feed making it very difficult to get through to the grayling. We persevered and managed 3 nice fish to over a pound including my Dads first ever grayling.
The majority of the fish were caught in the upstream half of the beat on double and single maggot. The fish were definitely sitting in the calmer water as the majority of bites came when fishing on the edge of of a crease.
We were also lucky enough to see an otter which came within 10 feet of us before vanishing back into the river!

13 Trout, 3 Grayling