Long Pool Crook Pool Horner Pool Furze Pool No Fishing in shaded area PRIVATE End of Fishery Ramsey Pool Lyn Rock Pool Black Pool Lower Lyn Rock Pool Upper Lyn Rock Pool Peal Pool Vellacotts Pool Overflow Pool Lower Stag Pool Dumbledon Pool Watersmeet Bridge Pool Upper Stag Pool Ashford Pool Fox Pool Buddle Pool Meadow Pool Start of Fishery Watersmeet House Black Rocks Ash Bridge FB Chiselcombe Bridge Combe Park Woodside Bridge Lynmouth Rockford Hillsford Bridge Brendon FB Ford Lynmouth Bay E a s t L y n R i v e r H o a r o ak W a t e r E a s t L y n R i v er Wester Wood Bonnicott Wood Horner s Neck Wood Barton Wood Barton Wood Mill Wood Frogwell Wood Grafton Wood Birch Wood Wilsham Wood Trilly Wood A39 A39 B3223 T O R S R O A D Porlock, Minehead Barbrook Filling Station, Barbrook. Tel: 01598 752248 2 2 4 Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey. © Crown Copyright and database right 2009. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey licence number AL 100018591 1/2 mile 1 kilometre NORTH A road B Road Minor road / track Footpath Noticeboard Footbridge Parking Fishing allowed Fishing allowed (children) No fishing (private fishery) Woodland FB Salmon Season: 1 March - 30 Sept (no worm or maggot before 16th June. catch and release of all salmon is mandatory for the whole season). Sea Trout & Brown Trout: 15th March - 30th Sept (no worm or maggot for sea trout before 16th June. catch and release of all sea trout is mandatory for the whole season. brown trout fishing by artificial fly only) A separate Environment Agency rod fishing licence is required Fishery restrictions to protect Salmon and Sea trout hook of no larger than a standard size 4. not allowed at any time in Ban on sale of rod-caught sea trout and salmon (New Byelaw) - no person shall sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale any salmon or migratory trout which has been taken by rod and line. Please avoid making contact with the river bed to help protect important wildlife habitats. Take extra care not to disturb fish and river gravel during March when salmon and trout are laying their es in gravel in the shallow, fast flowing parts of the river. It is an offence under the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 to wilfully disturb these fish spawning areas. Please report any incidents relating to pollution, illegal fishing or flood risk to the Environment Agency on 0800 807060 (free 24 hour incident hotline) or sightings of wildlife or litter pollution to National Trust wardens/rangers on 01598 763306. Canoeing arrangements detailed overleaf Day and week permits available from: Rockford Inn, Brendon. Tel: 01598 741214 Tourist Information Centre, Town Hall, Lynton. Tel: 0845 6603232 Taunton Angling Centre, 63 Station Road, Taunton. Tel: 01823 282 518 Porlock Visitor Centre, West End, High Street, Porlock. Tel : 01643 863150 The National Trust, Watersmeet House, Lynmouth. Tel: 01598 752648 More copies of this leaflet can be downloaded from www.nationaltrust.org.uk/watersmeet Printed on waterproof paper Watersmeet and Glenthorne Fisheries River Lyn, North Devon East Lyn A4 leaflet FINAL:Layout 1 08/06/2010 11:57 Page 2 Barnstaple Catch and release of all salmon and sea trout is mandatory for the whole season. Permitted baits are restricted to artificial fly and artificial lure until 16th June. Worm or maggot may be fished from 16th June on a single Circle patterned Fishing with worm or maggot is Long Pool.