Comments on: Essential tackle for your French trip http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/french-trip-essential-tackle/ News from all our French carp lakes plus general info useful to carpers everywhere Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Gareth http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/french-trip-essential-tackle/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Gareth Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:19:37 +0000 http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/french-trip-essential-tackle/#comment-21 You are right David, but the shops on France are getting better. The big fishing supermarkets like Mondial and Pacific Pêche have a fair amount these days. They do though carry a lot of their own lines, from the far east... So yes you'll be pushed to fined all the rig bits you need.. I always seem to carry too much gear. Your point about leads reminds me of last year at Old Oaks, due to a bit of weed in my swim the safety clips were ejecting the lead virtually on every fish... after a dozen carp I had no leads left and had to scurry to Mondial in Le Mans to get some... I ended up getting cheap sea weights as the Korda leads were like £3 each..expensive when you're losing so many.. but fish safe I guess. cheers Gareth You are right David,
but the shops on France are getting better. The big fishing supermarkets like Mondial and Pacific Pêche have a fair amount these days. They do though carry a lot of their own lines, from the far east… So yes you’ll be pushed to fined all the rig bits you need..
I always seem to carry too much gear. Your point about leads reminds me of last year at Old Oaks, due to a bit of weed in my swim the safety clips were ejecting the lead virtually on every fish… after a dozen carp I had no leads left and had to scurry to Mondial in Le Mans to get some… I ended up getting cheap sea weights as the Korda leads were like £3 each..expensive when you’re losing so many.. but fish safe I guess.
cheers
Gareth

]]> By: David http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/french-trip-essential-tackle/comment-page-1/#comment-11 David Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:17:51 +0000 http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/french-trip-essential-tackle/#comment-11 One comment I'd make Gareth is to not forget to take a good selection of leads. Some waters can be snaggy & you are very unlikely to find a tackle shop close by in France that carries a selection of any of the types of leads us carpers typically use. I usually take a spare tin that never comes out the car (can't lift the bugger that's why!!) to back up my normal selection in my rucksack. Same really goes for any item you might lose - hooks, pop-ups etc. There just aren't the specialist carp shops in France we have in the uK that will allow you to re-stock. One comment I’d make Gareth is to not forget to take a good selection of leads. Some waters can be snaggy & you are very unlikely to find a tackle shop close by in France that carries a selection of any of the types of leads us carpers typically use.

I usually take a spare tin that never comes out the car (can’t lift the bugger that’s why!!) to back up my normal selection in my rucksack.

Same really goes for any item you might lose – hooks, pop-ups etc. There just aren’t the specialist carp shops in France we have in the uK that will allow you to re-stock.

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