{"id":3145,"date":"2010-03-17T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2015-06-10T14:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:07:51","slug":"10-tips-to-make-your-french-carp-trip-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/10-tips-to-make-your-french-carp-trip-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"10 tips to make your French carp trip a success"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been travelling to France to fish for carp and catfish for over twenty years.\u00a0 One thing that I have learned to my cost is that you cannot do too much preparation. When you visit France, you are often trying to achieve in a week what you would not do in a season, or perhaps in the case of the huge fish available catch something you could never dream of at home. \u00a0This may all seem a bit dry, but do some planning and come back with the photographs and memories you been dreaming of.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"1. <\/strong>It may seem stupid or obvious but choose the right venue. Do you want a runs water, huge carp, a gite, a swimming pool?\u00a0 Do you want an out and out carp fishing trip or a family holiday with some fishing?\u00a0 Angling Lines provide them all; make sure you pick the one you really want<\/p>\n

2. <\/strong>Read the brochure, look at the website, and talk to Angling Lines they really want to help you.\u00a0 Make sure there are no tackle or bait restrictions.\u00a0 Those lovingly prepared tigers and peanuts are no good to you if they are not allowed at the venue.\u00a0\u00a0 Are your rods, lines, hooks, nets and unhooking mats adequate for the fishing you are considering and acceptable to the fishery owner.\u00a0 You want to hook that dream fish, land it and release it safely so ask the questions.<\/p>\n

3. <\/strong>Familarise yourself with the lake.\u00a0 Read the catch returns and the articles about the venues. You can find out about features, hotspots, weedbeds, going swims and the most successful baits and methods.\u00a0 A lot of visitors have been very successful over the years and are keen to tell you all about it.<\/p>\n

\"\"4. <\/strong>Make sure you are aware and comply with all the current driving regulations.\u00a0 When driving in France you are required to carry hi-viz vests, a spare bulb kit, a first aid kit, and a warning triangle. This might sound a lot but it\u2019s all fairly cheap and will last you for many trips.\u00a0 \u00a0Does your insurance cover you for driving in France, have you got foreign breakdown cover, and have you got an E111 (European Health Insurance Card).<\/p>\n

5. <\/strong>Make a loading list for your car and use it.\u00a0 Include everything including tackle, bait, clothing, passport, tickets, money, and even personal medication.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot going on the day you leave, and you would not be the first person to leave their rods or\u00a0 even their bait at home<\/p>\n

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Formule1 hotels are a great budget hotel<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

6. If the lake is more that about 5 hours from the ferry port I always travel early on the Friday.\u00a0 I book a Formule 1, Campanile , Premiere Classe or one of the many cheap hotels online before I go, making sure it\u2019s fairly close to my venue.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of travelling through the night and arriving at the venue tired and dirty,\u00a0 I stop Friday night have a great French meal, and a good nights sleep and arrive on time at the venue, refreshed and ready to catch fish.\u00a0 After all you are on holiday<\/p>\n

7. <\/strong>The owner or a bailiff will meet you and show you around the venue, listen to what they have to tell you.\u00a0 They know what fish have been caught, how and where they were caught, how much and what bait has been used.\u00a0 They know their water like the back of their hand and all that information is there for you to use, don\u2019t ignore it.\u00a0 Combined with the research you did at home you are well on the way to catching your first carp<\/p>\n

8. <\/strong>After you have picked your swim for the first night, don\u2019t fill it in with bait.\u00a0 Spend some time finding about your swim, depths feature etc and feed lightly or use PVA bags.\u00a0 Give yourself a night to find out about the fish, how hard they are feeding, what they are feeding on, or even if they were the crashing at the other end of the lake.\u00a0 You can then make your decisions about baiting up and your strategy for the week.<\/p>\n

9. <\/strong>Prepare to be versatile, we have all heard the stories about what French carp will and will not do.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cFrench fish don\u2019t av it off the top\u201d, do they?\u00a0\u00a0 When the goings got tough I\u2019ve caught carp by stalking, on the float, off the top, and on sub surface zig rigs even in the dead of winter.\u00a0 The skills and watercraft you have learnt at home are all valuable in France.<\/p>\n

\"\"10.<\/strong> Enjoy yourself.\u00a0 You did all the hard work before you left home, just chill out enjoy France and catch some carp<\/p>\n

Cheers,\u00a0Ron Key<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been travelling to France to fish for carp and catfish for over twenty years.\u00a0 One thing that I have learned to my cost is that you cannot do too much preparation. When you visit France, you are often trying to achieve in a week what you would not do in a season, or perhaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[835,1049],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-carp-fishing-trip-to-france","category-ron-key"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}