Maldon Angling Society

There was an incident reported to the police on the Chelmer & Blackwater canal in the early hours of Friday 30th to Saturday 31st July 2010.   If you were in the vicinity of Springfield Lock on these dates, and saw anyone acting suspiciously, please contact police officer Adrian Sharpe on 01277 262220.

Dave Harley has been almost unstoppable in recent weeks winning 4 of the last 5 concessionary matches and finishing second in the Dennis Penn Trophy.

Dave’s latest winning bag of skimmers from the canal.

Visit the match results page to see his other victories.

The venue for this year’s Presidents Trophy match on Sat 14th Aug has been moved from the canal to Rook Hall.  This is the first time that this team event has been fished across 3 different lakes.  Equal numbers from each side will be pegged on each lake with winnings paid out for 1^st and 2^nd on all three with the Presidents tankard going to the overall winner.  The draw remains at 12:30 with fishing from 2pm to 7pm.  The venue will now be closed to non competitors from 10.30am for the remainder of the day.

The new venue for the Presidents Trophy.

The river season started at midnight but members (and day ticket anglers) are warned that while the construction work is in progress at Tesco in Heybridge there are very few parking spaces available and a 5om pontoon is also being built on the canal.  Please avoid the area immediately adjacent to Tesco unless you are shopping there.  Parking is available in the spur road by the Railway Pond.  The Tesco construction project manager has confirmed that when the new store opens parking will not be restricted to a maximum of 2 hours as was previously rumoured.

The new pontoon by Tesco in Heybridge.

Thank you to Peter Beckett for sending in three photos that he took recently of the league open match fished on the canal on Sunday 20th December.  It takes more than a bit of ice and snow to put these hardy souls off a days fishing.

The other 2 photos can be found on the match results page although the result of the match is yet to be submitted.  I imagine it was hard going!

We have just received confirmation from Essex Waterways Ltd that the C&B canal in Heybridge will be closed from 11th Jan 2010 until just before Easter.  The closure will be from just above Black Bridge, (Holloway Road) Heybridge opposite Heybridge Mill, to allow the Environment Agency to replace a culvert beneath the Navigation. It will involve only localised damming of the waterway and should not affect water levels either side. There will however be an associated closure of the public towpath with a fairly long diversion around.

Angling will only be affected in the immediate vicinity. 

Essex Waterways are also endeavouring to carry out other maintenance works during this closure period and this will involve the closure of Beeleigh Lock for repair work, the possible painting of Wave Bridge at Heybridge and replacement of Hall Bridge deck also at Heybridge. Again these should not have any real effect upon angling.

Confirmed by Roy Chandler, Director and Chairman, Essex Waterways Ltd on 10/12/09.