The Lees

beat overview

The Lees beat is a two mile horseshoe of the river Tweed around Coldstream. There are famous pools such as the Temple Pool and the Cauld Stream, as well as the almost equally (at times) prolific Learmouth Stream, Back of the Wall, Glide, Bags, Annay and several other smaller pools. The Lees beat is well situated in the river as it is accessible to fish in low water and one of the first beats where fish hold up when the river is consistently high.

The Lees has split ownership between the owners and a family trust, but is fished as one beat. Many weeks are let to one tenant for the whole week, but there are also half week and daily lets. In the months of June, July and August, for the most part three rods are let with the other one rod being retained by the owners who use it sparingly and often not at all, especially when the water is low and fishing space shortened.

The boatmen, Malcolm Campbell and Paul Hume, are hugely experienced and have been working at the Lees for many years.

Please note that the owners reserve the Temple Pool on Saturdays, the Annay on weekdays from 1st September to 30th November, and the right to fish with one rod after 5pm throughout the season.

If you are looking for somewhere to stay please have a look at http://www.tweedbeats.com/accommodation

Contact Numbers

Head Boatman - Malcolm Campbell - 077865 98475

Second Boatman - Paul Hume - 077473 47425

For information re. availability please email theleesfishing@tweedbeats.com

or telephone 01890 882706 Mob 07597 487427

N.B. The rod price excludes VAT

archived catch statistics

Salmon	Febr	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Total
2014 Salmon	1	4	9	6	7	1	62	45	148	45	328
2015 Salmon	4	8	7	11	15	27	47	63	83	34	299
2016 Salmon	4	11	10	17	39	24	37	42	113	33	330
2017 Salmon	6	5	10	16	23	60	83	47	74	14	338
2018 Salmon	1	0	4	14	13	7	43	66	84	3	235
AVG Salmon	3	6	8	13	19	24	54	53	100	26	306

Sea Trout	Febr	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Total
2014 Sea Trout	0	0	2	5	7	5	14	3	1	2	39
2015 Sea Trout	3	1	3	2	21	45	8	1	1	1	86
2016 Sea Trout	0	0	0	1	2	15	2	2	11	2	35
2017 Sea Trout	0	0	1	5	6	10	9	1	1	2	35
2018 Sea Trout	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	3	0	1	11
AVG Sea Trout	1	0	1	3	7	15	8	2	3	2	41

season to date

Salmon	Febr	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Total
2019 Salmon	9	5	24	27	17	0	0	0	0	0	82

Sea Trout	Febr	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Total
2019 Sea Trout	0	1	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	8