In reply to Post #9
inland from La Rochelle and slightly North. The area is known as the Gatine.

I live in France now and Angling Direct have been great for me for online sales and delivery. I don't know how they do it but their postage costs are still way less than all the other tackle traders, everything arrives with in days and so far intact. Brexit has effed up postage costs on ebay and for loads of other traders but AD seem to have dodged the Brexit bullet or, all the other traders are taking the opportunity to make a profit on International postage costs. There are loads of good tackle traders in France but there are some things that they don't supply. Also I bought one of AD's own Advanta range carp rods last spring, great little rod, it's been used a lot, it still looks like new, it's a 10' 3.5lb TC rod and is great for about 50 squid.
There's an AD France but they don't hold the same range of stock as the England based stores.

Major moan about Brexit from a carp fishing point of view, it has really messed up the sale of boilies and all baits from England, I think it must be to do with type approval, the new bureaucracy has effectively ended the sale of marques like Nash, Sticky Baits, etc. etc. I can't get my favourites here anymore so I'm now looking into making my own boilies. There are loads of similar French boilies etc. because carp fishing is big here too, but there is nothing like your favourite boilies for giving you confidence in a session.
If anyone wants advice on French carping or France in general PM me, I'm friendly.

In reply to Post #41
Thanks for your response, however I'm not confused about anything concerning carp and territory, I'm just interested to hear other people's thoughts.

In reply to Post #21
What makes you think carp are territorial? I've observed territorial behaviour in aquarium fish but never thought of carp as being territorial, but maybe. Interested to hear others thoughts on this.