Maldon Angling Society

We are holding our annual open day at Bog Grove again this year and non members are invited to come along and fish free of charge between 10am and 5pm on Sunday 12th July.  You won’t even need a rod licence as we apply for special dispensation from the EA who we also hope will be present on the day.  Society representatives will be on hand throughout to provide assistance and advice and anyone who attends may claim a 20% discount if they collect a specially signed application form and join the society by post or at a local tackle shop.

A gold ring was found at Totham Pit on Saturday 27th June.  If you are the rightful owner please contact the membership secretary on the telephone number listed in the rulebook and he will put you in touch with the member who found it.

Congratulations to Bill Claydon who left the other competitors trailing in his wake recently when he won a match at Little London Reservoir with a 44lb+ haul that included a 15lb carp and some big bream.  This, and all of our other match results from May, can now be found on our new Match Results page (new page now listed under Match Dates above).

…and we are yet to receive any photos for inclusion in the gallery of Chub, Dace, large Roach, Gudgeon (the one caught at Bog Grove doesn’t qualify) or the very elusive Barbel caught from the River Blackwater or the Chelmer & Blackwater canal.  I am sure these fish are being caught so please do not hesitate to send them in and if the photos are of reasonable quality we will add you to our gallery (honestly its not just for carp) and hopefully replace this item with some real news from our river sections.  Photos from day ticket anglers as well as from our partner clubs (CAA, KDAA and DDPS) will be gratefully accepted.

Please note that anglers fishing the Speeney stretch of the Chelmer & Blackwater canal cannot currently access the car park at the rear of the museum of power.  We still have a sign on the gate which we have left up as we are negotiating to get our car parking permission back. We hope to have access shortly so watch this space and as soon as there is a change in the situation we will let you know.

Todays gallery updates include big Bream from Little London Reservoir for Sophie and Eddie French, a new personal best Common for Peter Hanson who joined recently and broke his PB with his second Maldon AS fish caught on a 1 inch cube of spam fished less than 1 rod length out at Howells, and Scott Parry who got fed up sitting behind static indicators at Totham Pit so went stalking and caught a lovely dark Common.  My pic of the bunch though is this cracking 17lb 8oz Common from Rook Hall for gallery regular Jack Walker: