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The Yorkshire Dales has many rivers and smaller streams with good fly fishing
for trout and grayling. For me, living at the southern end of the Yorkshire
Dales, near Skipton, the rivers Nidd, Ure and Wharfe are my main fly fishing
rivers, but there are many more within only a short distance. All share similar
characteristics of being fast flowing, oxygen rich, rainfed and unpolluted. They
all have brown trout in varying numbers and sizes, and some have grayling too.
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The River Ribble
is a typical Yorkshire Dales river with a prolific
population of brown trout, grayling and unusually for the
Yorkshire Dales, salmon and sea trout... |
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The River Swale is reputedly the fastest flowing river
in England, though I have not found it to be any different to the other Yorkshire
Dales rivers... |
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The River Doe and River Twiss are two
small rivers that join together just below the village of Ingleton to form the
River Greta, a tributary of the River Wenning, and eventually the River
Lune... |
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The River Skirfare
is a tributary of the River Wharfe in Wharfedale, entering
the main river near Kilnsey. The Skirfare is a challenging,
clear river, with large, difficult, wild
trout... |
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The River Bain
is a tributary of the River Ure, which it joins at Bainbridge in Upper Wensleydale.
Its main claim to fame is that it is the shortest river in England... |
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The River Cover is another tributary of the River Ure, joining the main river main river at Cover Bridge,
between the villages of Middleham and East Witton... |
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The River Tees is not actually in the
Yorkshire Dales, it is in Durham, though formally it formed
the border between Yorkshire and Durham... |
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Click to view
a slideshow of
these rivers |
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