Portugal

In Portugal everybody above the age of 14 requires the obligate angling license. It's very cheap - less than 10 € for a year. You can get it from Instituto Florestal, Av Joao Critomo 26, 1050 Lisboa, Portugal. 

2 rods are allowed - from sunup to sunset. Generally, nightfishing is not allowed in Portugal - but it seems apparent, that many choose to ignore this, as the risk of being caught is rather insignificant in many places. Very, very few local anglers practice carp fishing with the modern tecniques - and the thought of "catch and release" is almost unheard of in this country.

This is in fact one of the reasons put forward for the lack of informations available on portugueese carp waters!
In fact, carp are present in virtually any suitable river, reservoir and lake - but stories of big carp and 10 kg+ barbel in deep freezers makes deep impressions on the few anglers that practice modern carpfishing in this country. 

This secrecy is thus very difficult to come by at the moment - which appears a bit weird, as carp are in fact omnipresent .....
It used to be a bit like this here in Denmark too - back in the late eighties and early nineties - but much to the surprise of some of the most secretive anglers, their deep concern of the possibility of ruining stocks and waters has proved totally wrong!! 

Phone-numbers indicated are for calls within Portugal.
From other countries, dial 00 351 before the number

Some of these waters are mentioned by name on the above mentioned pages - but with no further details.

Alqueva

Cabril, Barrage de 

Castelo de Bode, Barrage 

Divors, Barrage de, Arrailos
The World Carp Championships 1999 was held here. Only very small carp was caught. How big the biggest fish were - or what the water has to offer at its best, I do not know. >Média Carpe no. 31 jan. 2000<

Duoro, Rio 

Fonte de Serne,