Night Carp Fishing in Yvelines

The Yvelines is the closest night-carp department to Paris, and the prefectural order in force opens it on two fronts, all year and at any hour. The first is the Seine, lot by lot, as it loops west of the city: lot 27 at Triel-sur-Seine, lots 31 and 32 at Les Mureaux, lot 43 at Rosny-sur-Seine, lots 45 bis and 46 at Moisson, lot 47 at Gommecourt and lot 50 at Bennecourt — each defined by river kilometre, with no bank designated, and permanent reserves around the locks and marinas (the Mureaux side channel, the Rolleboise–Guernes works, the Bennecourt marina). The second front is a set of stillwaters spread across the department: the étang de Saint-Quentin at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, the bassin de l'Ilon at Guernes, the étang de la Tour at Rambouillet, the étang de Sautour at Les Mureaux, the eastern part of the étang des Noës at Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis and the south bank of the étang du Perray. The étang du Gruyer at Rambouillet is not on the list. Conditions are those of the order: no carp kept or transported between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise, and, on the Seine, a separate prefectural ban on eating, selling or giving away the fish. Four private estates round out the offer under their own rules. For a visitor, the Seine lots are within an hour of central Paris by train and the Rambouillet waters sit in the forest south-west of Versailles — a night session that fits around a city trip. Each spot page carries the exact river kilometres or bank the order designates.