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by several tributaries, the chief among which is 

 the Yarty, which also rises in Somerset, flows into 

 the sea at Axmouth. Next come the little Sid 

 and the much more important Otter ; the Exe, 

 with its tributaries, the Loman, the Creedy, and 

 the Culm ; the Teign, with its tributary the Bovey ; 

 the Dart, the Avon, the Erme, the Yealm, the 

 Plym, the Tamar, with the Tavy — all flowing into 

 the English Channel ; and in the north, flowing 

 into Barnstaple Bay and the Bristol Channel, are 

 the following : — The Torridge, with its tributaries 

 the Waldon, the East Okement and the West 

 Okement ; the Taw, with its tributaries the Little 

 Dart, the Mole and the Yeo ; with the little 

 streams, the Heddon and the Lyn, in the extreme 

 north and close to Exmoor Forest. 



The two leading Devonshire flies are the blue up- 

 right and the March brown. There is no insect called 

 the blue upright fly in nature, but the artificial so 

 named may often be identified with the blue dun, 

 which, by the way, I feel pretty sure is the same 

 as the famous " olive " of the chalk stream angler.^ 

 The blue upright is used on the Windrush of 

 Gloucestershire, and Colonel Waller, of Bourton- 

 on-the-Water, has written to me in regard to this 

 matter : " I believe, and my opinion is corroborated 

 by some who have known the blue upright of 

 Devonshire, that it is identical with the blue dun 

 of this river." Mr. Austin, of Tiverton, writing to me 

 on the same subject, says — " The designation blue 

 upright is only an indefinite one, as there are four 

 flies that come under that name — the female 

 winged blue upright, the winged blue upright, the 

 female hackled blue upright, and the hackled blue 

 1 See The Book of the Dry Fly^ page 173. 



