La Boisserie is a two-hectare fly-only federal reservoir twenty kilometres north of Limoges — which is to say, it is the sort of venue that exists because the local federation decided a long time ago that fly anglers deserved a dedicated water and have been quietly stocking and running it ever since. Brown trout, rainbow trout, and brook salmon (which in France usually means saumon de fontaine, brook char) are all stocked regularly. Day tickets are twenty euros, an annual is fifty, which makes this one of the cheapest serious fly tickets in western Europe. No-kill rules apply through the warm months and a one-fish limit in the cooler season. The water is granite runoff — cool, clear, a bit tannin-stained after rain — and the stocking is managed for fish that are fit to catch rather than fat to weigh. A good, honest venue.

• Fishery
• Granite