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Two anglers fishing Euro nymphing technique. No fish caught.

The river was quite high and coloured during the morning session at 0.8 on the Cimeri gauge, clarity improved as the day progressed and the river dropped to around 0.73.

River was up chocolate brown in colour & pushing through, though it did start to drop throughout the day, tried 4 swims, settled in the bottom swim with the big slack, the only one I could get any bites in, couple of Chub to robin red pellets was the reward although just being out in the sun was nice.

2 Chub

Started and ended with biblical wind and rain….not best for fly fishing! However we eked out three grayling in the two hours in the intervening period, then an early lunch and bovril.

3 Grayling

A good day despite the mixed weather. 3 beautiful grayling of 2lb, 2lb 2oz and 2lb 4oz. No smaller fish seen. Plus 5 oos trout. All caught on trotted red maggots. One of favourite grayling rivers, thank you to the owner.

5 Trout, 3 Grayling

5 Grayling

Today's session was a last minute decision to sneak in half a days nymphng on the river in between the various floods we have had this winter. The river had a good flow on it but perfectly fishable. Weather cold first thing but it warm up over the morning. Access was generally good but I fished mostly from the bank to avoid any redds as far as possible. My last trip to the Leen some time ago produced several good grayling but today was a complete blank for me, not even a hint of fish. I know they are there as trotting maggots worked for others recently but my nymphs were not on the menu this tim e.

1 Trout

We had a difficult day fishing beats 4,5 & 6 for pike using a variety of deadbaits. Despite good fish coming out recently, there were very few fish showing with no bait fish activity. Conditions couldn't have been better which made the trip somewhat disappointing. Still to crack this stretch for pike. Appreciate the advice given by the balif but no luck this time.

No fish caught. Tough day, didn’t see any fish or any activity

Nothing...didn't even look like there was fish within a mile of the place. My first time on this beat - and much of it is shallow without much cover....so not a stretch that is going to hold fish in a clear, low cold winter river. Shame really, I'd asked W+U if I could walk the beat the weekend before to check it out....they refused (which struck me as not especially helpful!)...so I took a gamble...and lost. So there's £30 and a day of my life i'm not getting back.

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