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The River Indre which runs right alongside your front door is famous for fishing,
with a
selection
of fish, Carp, Perch, Chub,
A few anecdotes written by keen visiting fisherman A.J. Ediesson. A few days this summer spent fishing at the Moulin de la Fresnaye prompted me to write a few words... The
whole property is made up of six islands which the river Indre weaves its way
through. This allows plenty of scope for the visiting Angler. I
concentrated on two main areas, one about 200 feet from the apartment and the
second, a longer trek which meant carrying tackle as much as eighty yards to a
Point where flow from the two bridges feed a large Basin area. From
this This
is no artificial 'Etang' cleaned up and filled with lazy monsters reared on high
protein diets, but a test of old fashioned basic angling skills, where you must
read the water and form
your own judgement on baits, tackle and fishing styles. Then just when you
think you've fathomed it out, someone downstream opens or closes the sluice
gates and the flow almost grinds to a halt or hurtles under the mill creating a
myriad of turbulence and undercurrents. Chub six ounces to about a pound are probably the first fish that you will spot, followed by masses of small roach. Every few minutes a bomb burst of leaping fry fly across the surface attests to the Perch, Pike or Zander feeding voraciously. My first visit after ground baiting yielded a few fine fish. Subsequent visits yielded more Bream, occasional decent Roach, and after switching to lighter floats more Roach and some excellent Chub. Several early morning late evening sessions were to follow, by then I'd spotted the haunts of several excellent Chub, but following thoughtful pre-baiting only succeeded in catching large numbers of Bream. Then suddenly in a heavy rain squall I was towed up and down the river either by a shark or a rogue torpedo which on three occasions left me with something I'd never seen before......a totally straightened, decent quality size ten hook and not so much as a glimpse of the fish. For my final sessions I resorted to size 6 forged steel
specialist carp hooks which brought in numerous good Bream and a couple of
complete shocks...one a Black Bass, a North American fighting fish introduced to
the Paris area some years ago....and my shark? Its obvious really.
They didn't have the ponderous pulling power of the huge Carp that are
undoubtedly close to the mill (watch out for the locals fishing with luminous
washing lines and don't scoff as a verified fifty two pounder came out two mills
down river), but their turn of speed should have given me a hint. What
other fish would you expect in a slow moving, mudding looking, canal type
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Last modified: June 18, 2009 |
