Maldon Angling Society

We now have our own Twitter page for members to keep up to date with club news and future work parties. The address is @MaldonAngling

A disappointing turnout of five for the fifth Evening League match at Tesco’s however all caught fish and all enjoyed themselves.  Chris Dyall won the match with 4lbs 5oz and Bill Woollcott was second with 3lbs 3oz.  A total of 12lbs 9oz of fish were landed Roach, Perch and Rudd.  Bill Woollcott and Kim Naish go through to the final.

The next match to fill the last two places in the final is at Heybridge Basin on Friday 21 July, draw 05.00pm at Daisy Meadow car park.

We had  a concessionary working party at Slough West Lake last Friday.  Thanks to Roger Smith, Dereck Frost, Dave Harley, Brian Webber, Rob Rowbotham, Keith Leverett and Jack Morley.  We managed to clear the footpath around the lake also totally cleared 23 swims around the lake.  There was a lot of fish activity as well.  There was plenty of tree cutting and lopping done.  It now looks like a proper fishery.  Well done to everyone.

The Final of the Evening League will take place at Hoe Mill upstream on Sunday 6th August.  Anyone can fish the final but the “qualifiers” will be in their own section.

The hot weather has brought with it an increase in the number of reports of illegal fishing on the Chelmer & Blackwater navigation.  If you see anyone taking fish from the river please refer to this Illegal Fishing 2017 pdf for more info and call the Police on 101 or the Environment Agency on 0800 807060 to report the incident.

With a big thank you to Jamie and Ryan the swims and pathway around Little Parks have now been trimmed up as they were getting quite overgrown.

Before and after the trim up.

Some more good news is that the gravel hump on the access track where the landowner has laid an irrigation pipe has now been smoothed off.

and the leaking dam wall on Little Park Top Lake has been relined with clay and the whole area tidied up

Further trim ups are already underway at Slough House Farm and Totham Pit and others are planned for Slough House West and various sections of the canal.