Fly Fishing on the River Leigh Brook

Leigh Brook is a small stream in the Teme valley in Worcestershire. It starts just over the border in Herefordshire, in the parish of Cradley and Storridge, and runs east through Suckley parish, where the Cradley Brook joins it near Longley Green. From there it carries on past Alfrick and Leigh to meet the River Teme.

Around Alfrick the brook has cut a winding valley with steep woods and rich meadows, and part of it is now a Worcestershire Wildlife Trust nature reserve, inside the Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Dippers and grey wagtails work along the water, and otters live here too, although you would be lucky to see one.

Leigh Brook holds wild brown trout and grayling. The fishing we know of is club water near Leigh Sinton, mostly single bank, which members book in advance, with a short second stretch further upstream.

We do not yet have a sourced account of how Leigh Brook fishes through the season, its fly life or how quickly it rises and falls, so we have not guessed at any of that, and the Environment Agency has no level gauge on it. If you are unsure what to expect, treat it as small stream fishing: light tackle, careful wading and short, accurate casts.