frenchboy

If the new fish are from a French fish farm they will be use to pellets and plenty of them you will not believe the amount the French feed them so they might be scared of boillies and my experience of French fish from a farm is they do like pellets but seem to love anything halibut so may be worth a tub of halibut pop ups as a back up. I always work on a theory of if no bites get the halibut pop ups out with a Pva bag of pellets to go out with it always ends up working for me.

Good I hoped people would try the rivers you just don't know what size carp your going to get and to me that makes fishing exciting again.

dangling I'm afraid to say you are wrong the Op wanted info about french river fishing,read the Op's first post!!

I only commented about english owned lakes I haven't got a problem with french owned but the point still being you are missing out by not fishing the rivers or public lakes. But also beware that some french owned lakes are still over priced and some don't allow english people on and I say this due to experiences I have encountered.I just don't see the point in paying to fish private lakes be english or french owned when I can pay 86€ a year and fish where ever and for how long I want and I do quite a few week long sessions but I work on the fact that even if I fish only a couple of times a year I still save a fortune and get the chance to see some beautiful countryside and catch some lovely fish.

hi all, I live in france full time and do a lot of carp fishing and I tend to stay away from english owned lakes as they tend to be overpriced and overfished in my opinion. I can definitely say that you guys are missing out by not hitting the french rivers the fight you get from a river fish is a lot more enjoyable then any lake fish. I live and fish in the Vienne department and the river vienne has some cracking fish in it last year me and my mate had mainly common carp with the biggest being a cracking 37lb er and we know for a fact that we lost bigger fish!Its not just the rivers you are missing out on the public lakes have some cracking fish as well and are never over fished or you never have to get there early to get a swim. Short of it is you lot should start trying the public lakes and rivers at the end of the day a full licence is 86€ which means you can fish Anywhere in France so it will work out a lot cheaper than paying for a lake and you have a lot more choice. If anyone wants to come down my way I will be happy to take you to some of the best places always an excuse to fish lol