There are some French carp lakes which blatantly lie on their websites and advertising, They over inflate their stock levels and state unrealistic lake records and then don’t have photos to back up their claims !!!

Echopool is NOT one of these venues.

There are a lot of honest hard working French lakes who state fact not fiction and our lives are made more difficult trying to compete with these other venues who see nothing wrong with lying.

These days it seems like there is a new French carp lake opening daily and the choice for the English carp angler is almost endless.

Do you play it safe and go for one of the well known, established venues were the carp are likely to be very pressured, or do you take a chance on one of the many new venues and end up struggling all week to catch doubles whilst targeting the mythical “original stock”.

“Original stock” will undoubtedly be mostly made up of what are known as “table fish” these carp originate from a strain breed back in the day by monks as a food source and are very unlikely to ever grow more than 20lbs. They are easy to spot because of their long lean shape sometimes referred to as “torpedo’s”.

We bought Echopool nearly six years ago and have spent a lot of time and money building it into the fishery it is today and our eventual goal is to be the best exclusive venue in France.

At Echopool we know exactly what fish we have because we stocked them, we have removed all the table fish and luckily for us the original stock did contain French Royal’s which the previous owner was very proud of.

We also keep reading and seeing advertising were lake’s are constantly adding stock. In most cases if the lake is working properly and it has a decent head of good quality carp this is not necessary and in fact here at Echopool we are constantly removing carp to allow space for our best fish to grow to their full potential.

 Whilst fishing at Echopool if you do happen to catch a carp under 20lbs we ask you not to put it back but relocate it to one of our stock ponds.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and please be careful when choosing your venue.