What a large river is like ?
A large river makes more than 30 meters of width, it is powerful and one cannot cross it from everywhere. In France, one will think of course of Dordogne, Rhine, the river of Ain or the Rhone old man.

Ethics
Here more than elsewhere, dimensions of the river can let you believe that the impact of your withdrawals is weak. It is nothing, because these large rivers often are very fished, and the populations of shade”a kind of fish” are as fragile as elsewhere, as the example of Ain proves it, where its fishing has being closed to protect the species. The shade is a very fragile fish and one will choose the hooks without tongues, and if you have despite everything the evil to take pick up a fish, cut the thread rather than to handle it for long minutes.

The season and the stations
the shade reproduces in spring. The opening begins in mid-May. This beginning of season is in general productive, and the shades leaving the abrasion in general are starved and are little educated. But they also are very tired and even more fragile than usual, since they are very sensitive to a parasite, the furonculose. No kill must be synonymous to the respect of fish. It is not a question to harassing the fish which do not have the means of supporting it. In summer, during the day, you will not see many gobages, except in covered weather, or in the event of massive repercussions of ant. It is in the autumn that this fishing takes all its interest. The trout is closed, there are a lot of flies, the shade is educated, it swallows,it is in a fine fettle. What to ask moreover? In autumn, the fish leave the fast and oxygenated currents which they can attend in the heart of the summer. One will rather seek them on the pits and gravel pits with the powerful and uniform current. A big and deep stringer(lisse) is ideal.

The material and the equipment of the fisherman
to make great drifts, one needs long thin tips (of 1,5m to more than 2m of 12% in general). To launch these long tips correctly, long bottoms of line are necessary. (see formulas of bottom of line). A length from 5 to 6 meters is standard. They are launched out very well, for little that one lets them spread out well. The wind is on the other hand very bothersome. It should be that the bottom of line floats well (I lubricate all, except the tip), otherwise to pull it won't be discreet, and you will lose speed in the door-fitting.

The behavior of fish
the shades are nourished by positoning themselves, like the river trouts. They choose a water vein and hold themselvesin general with rigour, from where the need for being precise. On the very calm dishes, one crosses sometimes fish which walare strolling, which does not facilitate the things.

It often happens to shoe in the vacuum, while being however certain that the fish indeed took the fly. If it is sometimes true, it is in fact generally about a refusal. In fact, the shade can be satisfied to push the fly by the nose, to stand gaping, to stop just underneath (a small movement then is seen, but the fly does not disappear), to even roll over. This last behavior, singular, are confirmed by the fish captured very far from the mouth, in the belly, the tail or the back for example! At all events, it is always necessary to shoe, because it is precisely the time when the shade will have taken it that you will believe that it refused. Timing is important, and if some fishermen recommend to leave small time lag (in particular when downstream is fished), I believe that it is better to shoe as quickly as possible. If you miss a shade, or if you shoe on a refusal, most of the time it will go up. It may be not instantaneously (if it is educated),and may be not on the same fly, but it will go up. On the other hand, if you immediately take down it after the door-fitting, it can not go up at all.

The frequency and the shape of the gaping can inform you about the nature of the flies taken. Terefore, a shade which swallows the chiros on a little agitated sector will be able to make all small gapings, so small that you could believe in bleaks. Its gapings will be also more frequent, because it will not go down again inevitably until the bottom each time. On the other hand, it will also be able to gabe only by small episodes, to stop, and begin again. The same fish gaping small sedges will make more visible gaping, with possibly a small vertical giclette. It will gape in general less frequently, but over one longer period (if it is not disturbed).

Safety
A large river, it is broad, deep, and powerful. I use a stick of wading most of the time (arranged in a stake of tent in 4 bits). It is not obligatory, but as that is neither expensive, nor bothersome, it is better to take it.
On the Dordogne, it is necessary to be vigilant: EDF will not leave a respite to the fisherman. It is necessary to take reference marks at the edge, to know the kind which one fishes, and not to venture too deeply. The Rhine is more placid and its depths are more regular and less slipping, but in all the cases it is imprudent to fish alone.

The fish
A large variety of species is found:
- Rainbow trouts, fario trouts and for more chanceuxagua-bonitas, tigers, salmons of fountain or even saumonscoho.
- Pikes, pike perches, poles, black-bass, silures and burbots.
- Carps, white loves, sturgeons.
- Barbels, chevesnes as well as all white fish.
- To see fishing in each area of France visit this site:
http://www.fnp-halios.com/l_region.asp