The Sée runs off the Armorican granite into the Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel and is one of the last few Normandy rivers where wild Atlantic salmon still return in meaningful numbers. The run is small by Scottish standards — a few hundred fish a year in good seasons — but it is genuine, unsupported by stocking, and has held steady through decades when other Seine-Normandie rivers lost theirs entirely. The fishable water runs from Avranches upstream through Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët to the headwaters above Sourdeval. The salmon beats are the deep pools of the middle river, fished in spring with floating lines and long leaders when the water is low, and with small tubes on intermediate lines when it carries colour. Fish the pool tails and the seams where the current concentrates. Best windows come two to four days after a rise. Sea trout (truites de mer) run the Sée in numbers and provide the real summer sport, entering from late May and fishable through to October. They are worth night fishing with small flies from July onwards, when the water is warm and the fish active. The trout fishing in the upper reaches is honest rather than remarkable — wild fish, granite pools, good Baetis and stonefly hatches.
- Granite