I would value opinions regarding the better water to join on the Ure
My choise is between Wenslydale Angling Assosiation around Bainbridge of Bradford Angling Ass.
What are peoples view on which it the better for someone new to this river

Bolton Estate at Wensley or Jervaulx fly fishers are the ones I would recommend

Quick question from a southern softie...when I read Reg Righyni's book "Grayling", published in the late 1960s, I noticed that he spelled the name of the river that's the subject matter of this thread "Yore", not "Ure".

Is "Yore" now an outdated spelling, or does anyone still use it ? Just curious.

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JH based near Southampton

Yes - outdated- and yes - still used by some.

Thanks for the clarification.

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"In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria." - German proverb
JH based near Southampton

Still in use as Chris McCully used it in article in Trout and Salmon recently.

I've just had a new rod named the 'Yore' built for me to use on the river at Masham.

My children tell me I am old and outdated though.


Regards


David

"Yore" is still used yes, its not really much of an issue, the further up the dale, "Yore" is more prevalently used. The river signs do specify "Ure" though. I suppose it is all due to preferance and a change of phonology and literary culture over the past century.

As we know in;T.E. Pritt,(1888)The Book of the Grayling: being a description of the fish, and the art of angling for him, as practised chiefly in the midlands and the north of england..,Goodall & Suddick: Leeds. States that it is the "Yore" when he first mentions the river "He is found on the Wharfe and the Yore, above very heavy fall at Linton on the former, and Aysgarth on the latter." (Pritt, 1888: 25). Pritt earlier highlights some interesting bits of history about the Humber river system which includes the Yore, by positing that; "Ptolemy calls it the estury Abus. Camden says "Lelande contendeth reasonalye that it should be called Aber. which in the Bryttishe is the same that the Saxons and we nowe call the mouth of the ryver.""Geoffrey of Monmouth, the leader of our inglishe chroniclers, sayeth that it was called Humber by occasion that Locarine, the eldest son of Brutus, chased Humber, the kinge of the Hunnes (that arryved in this country,) into this water, where he was drowned." (Pritt, 1888: 14) Whilst Pritt too maintains that "Umber, which is the original name of the Grayling, is said to derived from the Latin Umbra, a shade, or shadow, and in its applicatiopn to this fish is supposed to have referance to the satement that when a Grayling is disturbed in the river he glides off with amazing rapidity, and is gone like a shadow into deep water." (Pritt, 1888: 11)

yes and yes

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the Ure at Bainbridge is a lovely section of water ,and you would also have the River Bain to fish aswell on the Wensleydale A A ticket wont you ?? another great little river as to Bradford there book would give you a greater variation of waters/rivers to fish ?? if you live next to the "yore" my choice would be Bainbridge without doubt ,get to know it intimately

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WHEN YOU LEAVE THE RIVER, TAKE NOTHING, AND LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINT'S!!!

THA CAN TELL A YORKSHIREMAN ,BUT THA CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH !!

My friend fishes the Ure and he loves it and managed to catch 12 salmon i believe last season..