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Most enjoyable days fishing in bright, sunny conditions on this pretty stretch of river. Six grayling up to just under 2lb as well as numerous out of season brown trout to trotted maggots from a variety of different swims. Easy wading and access, especially to downstream beat. Access more tricky upstream but still plenty of swims.
Thank you Wye and Usk for making this beautiful stretch available to the bait fishermen among us.

River highly coloured and unfishable due to overnight rain. No fish. A beautiful spot and will visit again. Please may I claim a wash out?

A damp day but most enjoyable, five trout count in lovely condition and colour. Unfortunately no grayling.

4 x grayling 9-18 inches, 20 x out of season trout 8-14 inches, trotting maggots. A dark, cloudy and very warm day with the river at a good fishing height for once. This is the first time I have fished the Leen with bait and it made an interesting experiment. This time last season we were rather worried that the 2011 drought and months of low water had damaged the large grayling for which this beat was known. This day produced just four, from some deep corner swims which I don't believe I could have reached into with weighted flies. One was a really nice fish of 18 inches, and another made 15 inches. Otherwise, the out of season trout were still very much dominating the pools and well forward on the feeding lies - frankly difficult to avoid. The by-catch of trout was about evenly split between lovely wild Arrow fish, mostly around 10 inches, and what appeared to be stock fish, although nicely turned out, up to about 14 inches. After all these weeks of flood, it felt good to be out on the river in the fresh air and landscape of North Herefordshire.

A nice autumn day on the Arrow, sunny and bright though cold in the shade. Despite the pleasant conditions the fishing was slow and I had only two bites (both landed) in the three hours I fished; both were from out of season trout of about 10", nicely coloured and in good condition. Both came to a beadhead nymph by the way.
This is a very nice beat with relatively easy wading.

One wbt 14 inches long, half a dozen or so fingerlings and probably the smallest fish I've ever caught on a fly. It wasnt much bigger than the fly! And 2 lost grayling at the net. They both looked good fish. Really lovely beat if a little difficult to access esecially the top half as theres a barbed wire fence runnuing the lenght of the river. Extreme care needed if in waders! It's a real shame this beat isn't available in the summer as this I'm sure would give cracking trout sport. Try and make it available please WandU!

A return visit to this beat, once more trotting for the grayling. A crisp sunny Autumn day, lots of sunshine and a bit windy. River at 0.35m and clear. Lots of leaves, etc, in the water made fishing the stick a tad difficult.
Brownies much in evidence in the shallower runs, so moved into the deeper glides above the bridge. Two grayling caught, best about 12 inches, one good fish lost.
Once again a great day out on a delightful river in some beautful countryside. We will be back again soon...

2 rods. 1 grayling at 2lb 4oz. Lots of trout (c.20 fish), best c.1lb.

Overcast mild misty day, Arrow at 0.32mtr. 10ft light action trotting rod and centre-pin, short float to 16 hook with 2 maggots. Caught 2 Grayling, largest a good pound and half which put its sail up for a sporting fight. Both caught in deeper glides well above bridge.
I finished angling early at 14.30 having tried various places as ratio of out of season Trout to Grayling was far to high (I caught and returned 30 plus, 3 in first 3 casts in weir pool !)
An excellent beat, perhaps a little shallow for controled trotting and plenty of barbed wire to climb over. Recommend take patches for waders. I would however definitly return if I knew the answer to limiting the number of out of season Trout! Anyone ?

1 grayling and 6 out of season brown trout.