Vassivière is a thousand hectares of reservoir sitting at 650 metres on the Millevaches granite plateau, which sounds like trout country but honestly is not — the lake is second category and the real quarry is pike, pike-perch and perch. The predator fishing here is as good as any pike-fly venue in France, and there is an honest-to-God fishing culture built around it: guides, competitions (the Mercury Fishing Cup is held here), float-tube fly schools, and the sort of tackle shops that actually stock the flies you need rather than the ones the catalogue told them to stock. The shoreline is indented and forested — forty-five kilometres of bank with endless coves — and you can fish it from shore, boat or float tube and find your own water without trouble. The trout population is incidental. Come for the pike.
- Reservoir
- Granite