Damaged fish are commonplace now on many fisheries and this is entirely down to angling pressure, inappropriate care of the fish, and sue of inadequate or inferior quality materials.

At our French lakes Les Croix and Les Levades we provide high quality equipment alongside a set of guidelines aimed at helping our fishing clients to care for the carp they catch.

The majority of fisheries have a “barbless hooks only” rule. The most damage caused by a hook is when it is removed, and a barbed hook Continue Reading

Unfortunately it is a fact that there are plenty of unscrupulous lake owners in France with little or no knowledge of fisheries management – please be careful !

It is important to find the right venue for you, carp anglers do not all want the same thing, so don’t just follw the crowds, look for what you really want in your holiday.

Some of the factors that might be important to you are ;

pricesize of the carpsize of the lake degree of difficulty of fishingdistance from the Continue Reading

Carp Fishing is a fate of things. It’s knowing where to discover fish seasonally, and knowing what baits to benefit from. Carp fishing can engage easy or very complicated rigs and tackle. Often, it’s spending period with friends and family with the excitement of enormous fish thrown in. Now and again carp fishing involves stalking by sight, fly fishing, or waking up from a nap to the sound of screaming drag. There are alot of ways to fish for carp, and so many people already fishing for Continue Reading

There are many places where you can go fishing for walleye in Pennsylvania so you will not have any trouble finding a great place to throw in your line.

Here is a list of lakes and reservoirs located in Pennsylvania where you can find Continue Reading

However, having some information about the most recommended fishing reels and when they are used can help you in deciding which one would be the best suited for you.

When choosing a reel the first thing that you have to be concerned with is the quality of the reel. You need to make sure that you choose the fishing reels that are designed for saltwater fishing or they will not be able to hold up to this type of environment for very long.

The saltwater and air will corrode your reels and other equipment and cause them to be badly damaged. Reels made for Continue Reading

The first key is to find the reefs, there are certainly many of them available. A depth finder certainly aids in this effort. You can also purchase maps that will give you gps coordinates of many of the major reefs.

Like all forms of fishing there is nothing one hundred percent constant about reef fishing. A particular reef may hold many fish one day and not very many another day. The major reefs however are much more reliable and generally always hold large amounts of fish.

Another prime consideration is the weather, mainly the wind and direction and speed of the current Continue Reading

Choose carefully the time of day you are fly fishing for salmon. Bright, sunny days will cause them to hide in deep holes and make them more difficult to catch. On low light or cloudy days they will be much easier to catch as this is their preferred weather.

A smart fisherman will make a water temperature chart to follow patterns of the salmon. This can take several years to make accurate but once you have it you will be ahead of the game. Get a thermometer to check the temperatures at different times of the day. Always Continue Reading

It is imperative that you have a good deal of knowledge about the game you are going after. An insight into its habits and behavior as well Continue Reading

Anglers who fish for big carp or big catfish use a range of shop-bought baits from pellets and boilies, to maize, hemp, meats, fish, maize and many proprietary ground baits etc, to bait their swim, which all cost a lot of money through the year. Much of this bait gets eaten with no benefit to the angler at all while he sits fishless! This phenomenon occurs very frequently and anglers would be shocked at their money going literally to waste as a result of missing something which can convert this Continue Reading

Many anglers use such a standard approach to their fishing and perhaps the average carp angler always has which is why his is precisely that i.e. an average angler! The main problem is that the writers who talk about fishing tackle and rigs and even readymade baits deliberately omit to include vital factors in regards to carp as fish. Just how many writers actually know anything about the different stages of feeding stimulation behaviours and the varied different methods of feeding that carp display and how to Continue Reading