The Yealm falls off the south flank of Dartmoor above Cornwood and runs through the wooded South Hams country to its estuary at Newton Ferrers — a small, intimate river with a disproportionate sea trout (peal) reputation. The upper river above Cornwood is granite pocket-water wild brown trout fishing; the middle river through Puslinch and Lee Mill is sea trout country from mid-June. The Yealm has historically been a private and syndicated fishery for much of its length, but the rod-caught peal run is one of the steadier small-river sea trout fisheries in south Devon. Salmon are not a feature.

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