lunkerflunker

If your having a snipe at me fella, I was only trying to find out practical information, mainly about boats, not how to fish for them! It is an interesting point to make though as the line is very fine.. .. the same post could be put on nearly every thread on here.. why are you talking about rigs, I designed my own, get out there.. why are you talking about bait, I labouriously tested every bait ingredient and recipe myself, get out there.. etc etc

Thanks guys for your help, will keep trying the phone number for pierres.

I was hoping someone on here could answer a question for me... who do I contact to hire a boat from? As far as I know Les bois de Callian (Gerrards) has closed down, Pierre's do not seem to be responding to email, and their website has not been updated since 2002 or something like that (worryingly). Don't know the name of the other cafes (that do boat hire). If someone could help, i'd be grateful. Planning my first trip down next month, and I have been surprised by the lack of information about Cassien on the web... especially practical information, like where to get licences from, the boats, latest rules (can you drop your rigs from boats again now?). So many people fish there, they must know. I read the Hutchy book years ago and was blown away by it. If you have not read it, it is well worth it. I have read a lot of articles from Steve Briggs about Cassien. If you can get hold of old copies of international carper, there are many pieces in there. Latest captures are reported still in international carper, which is now part of carp world magazine, have not seen anything recently, so don't know about water level etc, which would be handy.