Mervent Lake is a beautiful Lake of 130 hectares in the heart of a forest of 5,000 hectares. That surprising as diverse landscapes, await you and your eyes will never tired of watching!

Mervent dam is a dam in 1956, located in the communes of Mervent and Pissotte in Vendée on the course of the Vendée. It supplies a plant of drinking water with a capacity of 55 000 m³/day (60 000 m³/day held maximum 48 hours).

Lake dam.

Mervent dam is managed by l'Amicale Vendée mother and dams of Mervent.

Put water in 1956.

Drained in 1996. The ten-year drain was scheduled for September 2010.

Way but tends to become difficult from a very high increase the weekend fishing pressure.

Authorized.

Lake with an area of 130 hectares for 8.3 million m³ of water.

Funds exceed 20 metres. Average depth on the sectors of night: 3-6 m.

The diversity of positions and underwater.
The ruins and other obstacles immersed representative of significant fishing stations.
The clarity of the water from a mainly Rocky bottom.
The abundant fish population.

The difficulties to the water.
The high density of carp anglers.
Use of the almost mandatory boat.
Presence of crayfish but not catfish.