84< THE OGMORE. 



FLIES : the blues, dark and light; the grouse hackle, 

 wren's tail, and coch-y-bondy. 



THE OGMORE. 



The source whence this celebrated salmon river 

 takes its rise is situated in a wild and mountainous 

 part of the county, forming a portion of the parish 

 of Ystravodwg. After a course of nearly fourteen 

 miles, it falls into the Bristol Channel below the 

 town of Bridgend. Seven miles from its mouth, and 

 about two below the village of Llangeinor, the stream 

 separates into two branches, known by the names 

 of the Little and Big Ogmore. At this point there 

 is very good fishing. The western arm is the only 

 one on which fly angling is practicable, the other 

 being thickly encumbered with wood, which, how- 

 ever, forms no impediment to the running worm and 

 natural fly ; neither can the former method be fol- 

 lowed much above a place called Blackmill, eight 

 miles from Bridgend, for the same reason. 



This water is in very few instances so wide as 

 not to be commanded from either bank by a two- 

 handed rod. From the village of Bryn-y-minyn, or 

 Butter Hill, down to the ruins of Ogmore Castle, 

 about half a mile from its mouth, the river is ex- 

 ceedingly open, and abounds with long gravels and 

 beautifully -purling streams. At St. Bride's Minor, 

 called in Welsh Llans-anfraid, it is augmented by 

 the Llunvy, a tolerably good river, and at Bryn-y- 

 minyn by the Garw, a still better, but not adapted 

 for fly-fishing: you must dape only. Begin to 



