Stoneflies
The Walkham is a classic small Dartmoor freestone — a granite-bedded spate stream that drops off the west moor through Merrivale and Horrabridge before joining the Tavy below Buckland Monachorum. It is the kind of pocket-water trout fishing the south-west does best: short broken pools, wild brown trout that rarely make a pound, hatches reliable enough to keep a dry fly honest from April through autumn. The Tavy, Walkham and Plym Fishing Club holds most of the rod fishing, and the Horrabridge gauge falls almost as quickly as it rises — a wet morning and you can be fishing the same afternoon. Small numbers of sea trout (peal) reach the lower river from mid-June via the Tavy confluence; salmon are rare strays.
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