Hi All The lakes should now be mostly ice free although a few patches were lingering around on Tuesday. A couple of other things: The MBL gate code has now changed. See your Club Book for the new number. The Backwater is booked for an external event on Sunday 18th Sunday's Club match is likely to be on Hall Farm's large lake. Do keep an eye on the website's calendar.

Update: as of Saturday 10th all lakes are still frozen and are likely to be until well into next week. ....... As you might have guessed, the lakes are all frozen with around an inch of ice on them as of Saturday afternoon. It is likely they will stay frozen until well into next week. With the lakes frozen Sunday's match due for Hall Farm is moving to the Stort Backwater as the River is currently ice free (fingers crossed). Sunday Update: There are a few ice free swims o

Just before the weather gets too cold we have had a couple of fish deliveries for Wickham Hall and Malcom Barker Lake Malcom Barker Lake has had a good few small tench and chunky looking roach stocked. Wickham Hall has also had a tench (just a few as a trial), roach and ide stocked. The ide should be pretty quick growing and, with the chub stocked last year, should help give us some silver fish sport through the winter. Do let us know if you catch any of them over the next

The weather may be taking a turn for the worst and the fishing getting more difficult but there are still a few bites to be had. The below are current matches / bookings for the Club waters over the festive season in case you want to get out and try your new presents. Sun 7 Dec Hall Farm large lake - water booking Dunmow AC Sun 7 Dec Beggar's Hall - club match Weds 10 Dec River Stort Backwater - club match Sun 14 Dec Hall Farm large lake - club match Weds 17 Dec Hall Farm la

The latest work party found a few bits and pieces that had been left behind: T-bar style Allen key / hex wrench Large tweezers Carp rod...

Hi All It is that time again with the nights drawing in and 1st October marking the start of the pike fishing season on our waters...

Hi All A couple of change to the events this month. With the sad passing of Don Copping, who has been a member of the Club for many...

Many thanks to all who came along over the Bank Holiday weekend for the charity match. Between the entry fees and the raffle we ended up...

Just ahead of Tony's match for BreatheEasy here is one from the archives for the charity match held back in 2013 in favour of St Clare's...

For your second piece of history here is a copy of the Club's Membership Book from 1980 or so we guess. Many thanks John for the loan of...

This popular event is back with bookings being handled by the Bishop's Stortford Town Council - the sessions fill up quickly:...

A little something from the Club's Archives and Member's collections for you. This first one is an article from the Herts and Essex...

The Mainstream Fisheries team were hard at work on Tuesday with weed clearing and then liming the lake. Hopefully this should help...

Apart from a final bit of tidying up the works at Wickham Hall to create a water level path are pretty much completed. There is now a...

Hi all Dave Fuller is again this year running his charity match at Hall Farm in aid of The British Heart Foundation. Draw time will be...

The work to create a proper path around the lake at water level and some much gentler slopes down is now well underway. The work is going...

Sadly, we seem to have a litter problem especially at Hall Farm. As well as simply making the fisheries look poor it poses a risk to...

You might have spotted that the calendar is a lot fuller suddenly as the dates for events over the next year have been added to the...

Hi all Following Thursday's AGM please note the following rule changes were approved and are now in effect: We have clarified that Guest...

Hi All This year's AGM will be on Thursday 3 April at the Great Hadham Golf Club (SG10 6JE - W3W ///island.dads.farm) - the parking...