Carp Fishing at Les Rivets

Welcome to Les Rivets website. My wife and I in March 2008 purchased a 9 acre lake set in 18 acres of land in the Yonne Valley ,after looking for over one year. My name is Adrian Atkinson, I am 54 years of age and my wife name is Jenny. I am a Computer consultant by trade and have my own limited company in the UK for the last nine years.

I have been fishing for over 30 years and started my Carp fishing in the Darenth Valley in Kent, yep I’m a Dartford lad. I have lived in Europe on and off for over twenty years, being Holland, Belgium, and France and have enjoyed fishing in most of the euro zone. I wanted to create a fishery with character not just a hole in the ground, so people can relax unwind and catch some big lumps and would want to return many times.

The Les Rivets Lake has lots of character with good depths, tree cover and has never before been fished commercially before 2009. The lake has been drained down and the small fish removed before the stocking of over 300 fish to 47lbs.

At the end of November / December 2010 we will be adding other 30-50 Carp at a weight of 30lbs each these fish will not be French Royals but a strain which will have a better chance of growing through the 50lb barrier, taking the Fishery into another entry level.