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They teem in large shoals in the sometimes saline waters that surround many of the towns and villages of the area. You will see them rubbing shoulders with mullet, chub and roach in the canal that runs through the town itself. In the La Rochelle canal you will find French pêcheurs ignoring the possibility of a 40lb carp or 100lb catfish and happy to pull out endless carassins using light pole tactics. 50 kg bags are not uncommon and 100 kg bags are possible as the average size of carassin is well over a kilo and they are obliging biters.
As you drive towards Marennes and the coast you drive for many kilometres alongside another canal where you see storks nesting in the electricity pylons. You can pull in anywhere alongside the road, or into the adjoining lanes and fish for carassins. It doesn't matter where you fish, they will oblige.Just outside Marennes, the area called Le Lindron where pêcheurs often catch in excess of 100 carassins in between being snapped by the many large carp that inhabit the same canal.
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