Maldon Angling Society

Following feedback from the membership the next workparty on Sunday 26th September will be held at Totham Pit.  This is predominantly to trim up overhanging trees that inhibit casting and also those trees in the water where fish can become snagged and lost.  Litter will also be collected following an increase during the school holidays.  Dependant upon turnout a contingent may also be despatched to carry out similar work at Bog Grove.

Please meet at the container at 8am, if you can bring a saw along that will definitely prove useful.  Contact Sam Gower for additional info.

There are plenty of trees that need trimming up at Totham Pit.

The next Totham Pit carp match will now be held on the weekend of  31st Jul / 1st Aug.  Apologies for any inconvenience caused.  Please contact Pete Newell for further info.

Unfortunately Crucian do not count in the carp match (Paul Newton’s 3lb 13oz Totham Pit Crucian).

The next working party will be held on Sun 20^th Jun at Totham Pit and Bog Grove as trimming up swims at both venues is our top priority.  Please meet at the container at 8am if you would like to help.

Colliers bay at Totham Pit from the wooded bank.

Senior Match Secretary Kelvin Willis emailed last week to say that he had caught 159lb 8oz of fish from Totham Pit comprising 26 bream, biggest 10lb 4oz (his first into double figures), a 12lb carp and a 2lb eel.  Lloyd Druce and John Penn from JP tackle helped him weigh them and took the pictures.  We now have Kelvin’s full report:

As promised I now attach pictures of some of my 26 Bream, one 12lb Carp and 2lb Eel haul (total weight 159lb 8oz) from Totham Pit on Wednesday the 19th of May.  Fishing opposite the reeds on the wooded bank with a small groundbait feeder 3/4 distance across, I had my hook straightened by what I think was a large Carp first cast. Next three casts produced three Bream followed by a 1 1/2 hour spell of line bites, so I knew the fish were there. After shortening my feeder hook link to only a foot to stop the bait being elevated off the bottom by the grazing Bream I got a bite a cast for the next 4 hours, resulting in 26 Bream, most of them 5-7lb with my second last fish of the day a double at 10lb 4oz, beating my pb by probably 3lb!

Fortunately (as i didn’t bring my scales) John Penn from JP Tackle was on hand to lend me his, he and Lloyd Druce helped me to weigh in all the Bream for a total weight of 145lb 8oz, add to that a 12lb Linear Mirror Carp and a 2lb Eel, my days tally totalled 159lb 8oz, a record for me on a Maldon Water.  What a day!
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The picture of the single Bream is the 10lb 4oz one, then there is the 12lb Carp in the net on the mat (see gallery) and a selection of six of the haul as there was no way I was going to get a picture of all of them without having them out of the water for too long.

Two anglers shared a 28 bream haul at Totham Pit on Sunday.  We don’t have any photos of that haul but the Membership Secretary turned up late in the day to land his first 7lb+ bream from the venue.  He takes up the story……

I arrived at Totham Pit late afternoon before the rain set in to find 5 cars in the car park.  I love the shallows at this time of the year but the previous Sunday the resident pair of swans had made my attempts to fish a three foot deep swim almost impossible so I opted for the deeper margins of the wooded bank.  My peperami over groundbait approach only brought one bite but it was a 7lb 4oz bream.  This is my third MAS 7lb+ bream, the others coming from Whitehouse Farm (7lb 10oz) in April and my PB 7lb 13oz from Slough House Farm last year.  I know that Little Park and Little London have both produced 7lb+ bream in the past so I could yet increase my tally.

Paul’s 7lb 4oz deep water slab (complete with spawning tubercles)

Members are reminded to take their litter home after a spate of black bin bags stuffed with rubbish have been found at Totham Pit.  Members caught leaving litter will receive a life ban.  New night permit members are also reminded that the use of more than 2 rods is only permitted between 1 Oct and 31 Mar (rule 38).  If anyone is caught using 3 or more rods between 1 Apr and 30 Sep and reported to the committee they will receive a written warning, possible suspension and lose their night permit.