Night Carp Fishing in Ille-et-Vilaine

Ille-et-Vilaine is one of the most open Breton departments for night carp fishing: the prefectoral order in force lists more than forty sectors, fishable all year apart from a short spring closure. The Vilaine is the backbone, from Rennes down to Redon: Le Rheu, Bruz (Le Marais, Cicé lock), Guichen on six separate sectors (Pont-Réan, Île du Boël, Traveuzot, Tréhélu stream, Bouëxière and Gai lieu locks), Saint-Senoux, Saint-Malo-de-Phily, Guipry-Messac (Pont Saint-Marc, Malon lock), Langon, and finally the long stretch from La Chapelle-de-Brain to Redon — this last one weekend nights only. The Meu offers a second full river west of Rennes, from Mordelles to Iffendic via Bréal-sous-Montfort, Talensac, Montfort-sur-Meu and the Chavagne–Goven stretch; the Couesnon opens at Rives-du-Couesnon, and the Ille-et-Rance canal at Saint-Grégoire then from Hédé-Bazouges to Guipel. Stillwaters are plentiful and spread across the whole department: to the east the Cantache and Haute-Vilaine reservoirs, Galaché at Javené and Paintourteau at Erbrée; to the north Basse Roussière at Mézières-sur-Couesnon, Le Boulet at Feins, Lac Tranquille at Combourg, Le Meslier at Langouët, Sainte-Suzanne at Saint-Coulomb, Pont-ès-Omnès at Beaussais-sur-Mer, Pont Avet and the Bois Joli dam at Pleurtuit; to the west Trémelin at Iffendic, Le Guern at Talensac, the Paimpont abbey lake and Belouze at Baulon; to the south Bain-de-Bretagne lake, La Forge at Martigné-Ferchaud and La Taberge at Sainte-Anne-sur-Vilaine; and at the gates of Rennes, Le Colombier and Grand Coutance at Le Rheu. Exact conditions — baits, release, open banks — are on each spot page, as the order sets them.