I70 SOUTH COUNTRY TROUT STREAMS 



Liskeard and Lostwithiel. The Fowey has some 

 fair trouting above Red Gate, and below Lord 

 The Robartes gives leave between Lostwithiel 

 Fowey ^^d Glynn, which portions of the stream 

 are well wooded. Minnow is used as well as fly, 

 and September is sometimes a good month for this 

 stream and its tributaries which rise in Bodmin 

 Moor. Red and black palmers, blue uprights, 

 blue dun, March brown, and coch-a-bonddu 

 are useful flics here, as indeed on most other 

 Cornwall streams. Liskeard should be made 

 headquarters for the upper parts of the Fowey, 

 from which town the St. Germans stream — a 

 tributary of the Lynher — and the Looe and West 

 Looe, which flow into Looe Bay at the small town 

 bearing that name, may also be easily reached. 

 The hotel at Liskeard is Webb's. 



The Camel, Lynher, Inney, Ottery, and Fowey 

 may be regarded as the five chief streams of 

 Cornwall ; but there are many others, chief 

 among them the Hel and the beautiful Fal, 

 containing plenty of troutlets and some salmon- 

 peel as well. The Loe Pool, near Helston, was 

 once celebrated for its excellent trout, and there is 

 a story of one weighing no less than 8 lbs. 3 oz., 

 taken there with fly in 1774 ! It is now not the 

 water it used to be, owing to tin mine poisoning ; but 

 there are troutlets in the Cober hard by, and in 

 dozens of other nameless little streams in this part 

 of Cornwall. The Cornwall troutlets are frequently 

 in condition by February, and the flics recom- 

 mended for the Fowey will be found to be of 

 general use. 



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