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On the whole, trout are plentiful in the Torridge, 

 small in the upper portion, but lower down, in the 

 neighbourhood of Great Torrington, a good basket 

 may be expected to contain fish from J lb. to i lb. 

 The minnow is very often used from June to 

 August, but earlier in the season wet fly fishing is 

 general, and the flies in favour are, amongst others, 

 the blue upright, March brown, and red palmer. 

 The Torridge contains salmon-peel, and some dace 

 in its lower portions. It is a rapid stream, passing 

 through some beautiful scenery, and its course is 

 entirely, I believe, within the altered carboniferous 

 rocks of Devonshire. 



The Waldon rises in the neighbourhood of Brad- 

 worthy and, passing Sutcombe and Thornbury, 

 joins the Torridge about three miles above The 

 Black Torrington. In its upper stretches it Waldon 

 runs through a boggy moor, and is more wooded just 

 before it joins the Torridge. The Waldon is clear 

 and fast, and in the winter, when the stream is full, a 

 few salmon-peel occasionally find their way some 

 distance up it. There are plenty of trout averaging 

 about four or five to the pound, and the blue 

 upright is considered the best artificial fly. Worm 

 and minnow are used as well as fly. Holsworthy 

 is the nearest station to the Waldon, and is about 

 five miles distant. 



The Okement proper, or West Okemcnt, rises 

 on Dartmoor by Cranmerc Pool, and close to 

 where the Tavy, the Dart, and the Taw The 

 have their head waters. From its source Okement 

 to Okehampton the Okement runs about nine or 

 ten miles through the moor, and some eight miles 

 below Okehampton it unites with the Torridge. 

 The East Okement rises in a bog called Skit 



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