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River Tavy, Walkham and Plym

The river Tavy flows off Dartmoor, through a beautiful tree lined valley, down towards Plymouth where it joins the tidal Tamar. It is joined by it's tributary the river Walkham half way down it's course. Both the Tavy and the Walkham offer good trout fishing in the spring and then excellent Sea trout fishing with the odd grilse/salmon through the summer and more substantial runs of salmon in September/October.

Most of the fishing on the river is controlled by the River Tavy, Walkham, and Plym fishing association. The lower and middle sections of the river Tavy are only avaliable to full members but the upper Tavy, the Walkham, and the river Plym/Meavy are avaliable on visitors tickets. Visitors tickets can be obtained from the Esso garage at Yelverton, The Fisherman, 2a Kings Street, Tavistock, and Osbourne and Cragg Fishing shop at 37 bretonside in the barbican in plymouth.

The Bedford hotel in Tavistock is an excellent place to stay close to the upper beats of the Tavy and it's sister hotel The Two bridges hotel out on Dartmoor is a good place to base yourself if you wish to fish both all the rivers. Brown's Hotel in tavistock is also very good and has an excellent brasserie.