Where to Fish in France

Fishing Regions in France

From the salmon rivers of Brittany to the alpine lakes and the trout streams of the Pyrenees and Corsica. Explore all the regions where you can fish with an official French carte de pêche.

🏞️North & West

Brittany, Normandy and the Loire and Seine basins: sea-trout rivers, the pond country of Brenne and Sologne and urban street fishing in Paris itself.

Brittany

Bretagne

Normandy

Normandie

Hauts-de-France

Île-de-France (Paris)

Île-de-France

Pays de la Loire

Centre-Val de Loire

🏔️East & Mountains

Alsace, Franche-Comté and the Alps: the legendary trout and grayling rivers Loue and Doubs, trophy pike on Lac du Der and the deep alpine lakes of Annecy, Bourget and Léman.

Grand Est (Alsace)

Grand Est

Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

☀️South & Corsica

Gascony, Occitania, Provence and Corsica: the Gave d'Oloron salmon system, carp water Dordogne, the black-bass lakes of the Landes, the Verdon canyons and Corsica's endemic mountain trout.

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Occitania

Occitanie

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Corsica

Corse

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