148 SOUTH COUNTRY TROUT STREAMS 



Axe runs is a pleasant fertile one, and there is inuch 

 pasture land beside the stream. 



The Yarty is a gravel and loam stream, 

 rising near Kent's Mill. It passes Yarcombe and 



The Stockland — which may be made hcad- 

 Yarty quarters — and Kilmington, where it 

 receives Dal wood Brook, containing a good many 

 trout. The Yarty, after a course of thirteen miles, 

 flows into the Axe at Axminster. It contains 

 some salmon and salmon-peel, and is full of trout. 

 There are a good many fish of about | lb., and 

 here and there a two-pounder may be taken. The 

 Yarty is strictly preserved, and has no clubs. An 

 angler who knows the water very well recommends 

 as the best flies the duns with their imagines or 

 spinners, and the alder. Dry as well as wet fly 

 may be used. 



The Otter, one of the earliest and best of 

 Devonshire waters, rises at Otterford in the Black 



The Down Hills just inside Somersetshire, and 

 Otter passes Honiton, Ottery St. Mary — which 

 may be made headquarters — Tipton, Newton 

 Poppleford, and Otterton, to within a mile of 

 which place the tide flows up. The tributaries of 

 the Otter are Pennythorn Brook, Blanacombe 

 Brook, Awlescombe Brook, and Tail water Brook. 

 Trout are plentiful in this excellent fly-fishing 

 stream. They average about \ lb., and sometimes 

 run up to chalk-stream size, one being indeed 

 killed in 1896 weighing no less than 5| lb. Fly 

 fishing is the method of angling on the Otter, and 

 the favourite patterns include the blue uprights, 

 haresflax (olive and red), red upright, yellow and 

 olive duns, and partridge quill. The Otter, which 

 flows through a nice country of meadows and 



