1. Before fishing. If possible, please make contact with the hotel river ghillies in The Cockpit tackle shop, open from 9am to 10am, or 6.30pm to 7pm. If this is not possible, you must make contact with hotel reception. Please ask for a beat book for detailed rules and directions. 2. After fishing. Please inform the hotel of your catches. A catch return chart is on the notice board in the main corridor beside the beat lists. Please fill this in yourself, or simply phone through with details. 3. Parking and access. Please park cars in places specified in the hotel beat book only and walk to the river as directed. Our right of access is for the purpose of fishing only. 4. Methods of fishing. Salmon - fly only on the Lyd, fly and spinning on the Tamar. The use of worms, shrimps or prawns is not allowed. Spinning for salmon is sometimes allowed on the Lyd during extreme spate conditions - check this with the hotel ghillies. When spinning, the use of Flying C baits is discouraged to avoid the deep-hooking of fish. Brown trout and sea trout - fly only. 5. Times of fishing. For salmon and trout rods, a day runs from 6am to 8pm. Night sea trout fishing runs from 8pm to 6am. Fishing outside these times can only be done by prior arrangement with the ghillies. 6. Dogs. No dogs are allowed on the beats. 7. Size and catch limits. In order to preserve wild stocks, we are imposing the following bag limits in any 24 hours: 1 salmon, 4 sea trout, 4 brown trout (size limit 8"). Fishing may continue after the bag limit has been attained, but we ask that you return the fish unharmed to the river. We encourage catch and release fishing with barbless hooks. 8. Salmon conservation. In line with TTFA guidelines that 70% of all rod-caught salmon must be returned, we ask you to release your first salmon and kill only one fish out of three.
