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I'm using an old chrome refrigerator shelf for a fish excluder on the outlet culvert. Fish don't swim on their sides, so I put the slots horizontal. The problem I have encountered using rectangular wire fence or hardware cloth is that it is difficult to clear.
There is a semicircle of large rip-rap in front of the grate to stop most of the floating grass and leaves.
If you have access to durable logs, like hedge, black locust, poplar, cypress you might make a log chain to float around the drain that would block floating debris and allow water to pass underneath.