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brown, the blue uprights, and the Wickham as flies 

 for the Barle. Towards evening a coachman is 

 sometimes a good lure. 



The Lyn, or East Lyn, rises near Oare Oak, in 

 a country which Mr. Blackmore has made famous 

 in his romance of Lorna Doom, and, joined The 

 by the Oare water and the Bagworthy ^^n 

 water, with one or two other streams, crosses 

 the border and, passing Brendon, reaches the 

 Bristol Channel at Lynmouth. It is not difficult 

 to get permission to angle in this beautiful 

 little stream, and visitors staying at the Bath 

 and the Lyndale Hotels have the right. The 

 trout ordinarily taken will not be found to run 

 much above six to the pound, but there cer- 

 tainly are days when a good many bigger ones 

 may be taken. A pound trout is sometimes to be 

 taken in the lower and wildly-wooded parts of 

 the stream, but minnow and worms are more likely 

 to kill a fish of this weight than artificial fly. 

 Duns, palmers, blue uprights, and the March 

 brown may be used, and on one or two occasions 

 I have found the pale evening dun a particularly 

 good pattern in summer time. The coachman is 

 also very good on the Lyn, and some anglers never 

 have it off their casts. The Lyn contains some 

 excellent salmon, which are taken with worms in 

 the late summer and early autumn. I have never 

 heard of but one fish being taken with a fly. The 

 stream is rapid, and below Watersmeet, which 

 Whyte Melville has described in his pretty 

 story Kate7'felto^ it has some beautiful little pools. 

 The Lyn here flows through a deep gorge, and 

 from the footpath far above, looking down at the 

 stream as it roars and foams from one emerald 



