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The Ermc, a clear and rapid stream, but peat 

 coloured in flood time, is among the half-hundred 

 waters that take their rise on Dartmoor. The 

 It is about sixteen miles in length, and has Erme 

 three small tributaries, the Ugborough Brook 

 (which receives the little Wood Brook), the 

 Shilstone Brook, and the Modbury Brook. The 

 trout of the Erme and its tributaries run small — 

 about six to the pound — but they are plentiful. 

 Fly fishing is the method of fishing up to June 1st, 

 after which date the minnow and the worm arc 

 allowed by the Avon and Erme Fishery Association. 

 The flies for the Erme are the stone fly, March 

 brown, coch-a bonddu, red and black palmers, 

 red upright, blue uprights, alder, and black gnat. 

 The Erme holds no other fish besides trout. Ivy- 

 bridge is the best place for the angler to make 

 his headquarters at, and tickets may there be 

 obtained for the water. For six miles the Erme 

 flows through the moorland, and from Dartmoor to 

 the sea it is a well-wooded stream. Fleet House, 

 the beautiful seat of the Mildmay family, is on this 

 stream. 



The Yealm, a stream of some seventeen miles in 

 length, rises on Dartmoor, and passes Cornwood 

 Yealmton, and Newton Ferrers. The The 

 Yealm, which sometimes runs very low in Yealm 

 a dry summer, receives several small tributaries, the 

 Braxton Water, five miles in length, being the most 

 considerable, and the tide flows up to within about 

 a mile of Yealmton. The Yealm has no angling 

 club, and is preserved in its fishing length by private 

 owners and occupiers. It is thickly wooded 

 throughout almost its entire length, with the excep- 

 tion of half a mile or so above Cornwood, where 



