Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports

Here is all the latest news, information and catch reports from all Luton Angling Club waters for the week ending 21st April 2024.

Membership Renewals REMINDER

Membership renewals are in full swing at the moment, all existing Luton Angling Club members are guaranteed a space for the 2024/25 season if they renew before 30th April 2024. On 1st May 2024 any memberships that have not been renewed will be offered to new members on a first come served basis. If you are an existing member and want to renew please do so before 1st May or you could miss out.

North House Lake

Bailiff Brian had a great time on a 24hr session targeting the Tench, after losing two, he scaled-down to a size 10 hook and two fake pieces of corn topped with 3 red maggots and was rewarded with 5 beautiful tinca's whose weights were 6lb 2oz, 6lb, 5lb 8oz, 5lb 6oz, 4lb 1oz as well as losing another 2 fish, one of which he was certain was a carp

Brian Turner - North House Lake

Brian Turner - North House Lake

Brian Turner - North House Lake

Ethan Griffiths had two Mirrors during a short 3-4 Hour session

Ethan Griffiths - North House Lake

Ethan Griffiths - North House Lake

Beckerings Reservoir
Gareth Evans spent last Sunday night on Beckerings he had a lovely 26lb 14oz common and then a Bream in the morning, which was followed by a 5lb 8oz tench which was a nice surprise.

Gareth Evans - Beckerings

Gareth Evans - Beckerings

Jason Mash had 2 commons on Friday, The best of the two is pictured below.

Jason Mash - Beckerings

Darren Savage with a had a Common at 23lb.

Darren Savage - Beckerings

Brett Collins had a lovely mirror from Beckerings on Saturday. It went 25lb 2oz. Pictures are of both sides

Brett Collins- Beckerings

Brett Collins - Beckerings

Ethan Griffiths had 9 fish during a 24 hour session.

Ethan Griffiths - Beckerings

Ethan Griffiths - Beckerings

Ethan Griffiths - Beckerings

Ethan Griffiths - Beckerings

Ethan Griffiths - Beckerings

Ethan Griffiths - Beckerings

Ethan Griffiths - Beckerings

Warren Griffiths had this very pretty mirror carp from Beckerings on Saturday evening. It was caught on a zig.

Warren Griffiths - Beckerings

Amer Jawad had 10 nice big Beckerings Bream on Saturday, Amer said it is fishing really well at the moment, the fish were very active despite the cold northerly wind. The angler next to him had a 41lb Catfish and another nearby a 25lb Carp,

Amer Jawad - 10 big Beckerings Bream

Grand Union Canal

Neville Hunt was back out on the canal and had some good Bream. It was mainly overcast and quite windy in the afternoon. He was visited by Michael our friendly bailiff, who took the photo.

Neville Hunt - GUC Bream

Wednesday Match Report 17th April

GUC Town North

It was back on the Canal this week, a venue that has been in splendid form during the warmer weather of the last weeks, but possibly due to the huge drop in overnight temperature, the cold winds, hail, and rain of recent days the venue produced some low weights on the day, a disappointing result for the 16 anglers who fished.

On reaching our pegs the weather was rather nice, although chilly, with a bright sky, but this wasn’t too last as we had huge black clouds and squally winds at times during the day, although fortunately not a lot of rain fell and nobody got really wet this week.

During the first hour the boat traffic was heavy, including the double-breasted Jules Fuels pair, but after this seemed to decline and the afternoon was boat free, apart from Sean Leatherland who had a Wyvern boat that was being moved into the dock shed reversing through his swim! .We also had to contend with noise of the building works from one of the houses on the other bank early on but fortunately, this also reduced in volume after the first hour.

Our winner this week with a lovely net of silvers from the end peg was Dave Abbott with 7lb 5oz.

For the second week in a row, second place was taken by Colin Holmes with 4lb 7oz with a mixture of small perch, roach, and Gudgeon. Colin fed three lines but only actually caught on two of these. Colin was using pinkie and squatt as hookbait, fished over groundbait. His starting choice of elastic proved to be too heavy, and he was bumping fish, so he changed to a lighter elastic which solved the problem and stopped this happening.

Chris Howard in third took his bag by fishing the edges of the track alternating between pinkie and large red maggot as bait to end with 2lb 15oz.

Colin Macbeth in fourth had a skimmer and a couple of small roach early on punch, he fished rotating four lines and later caught skimmers and a couple of perch on worm at the bottom of the far shelf, finishing with 1lb 15oz.

A big thank you this week to Roger and Tracy, who weighed in recorded the results and took pictures for us.

Results

1st Dave Abbott 7lb 5oz

2nd Colin Holmes 4lb 7oz

3rd Chris Howard 2lb 15oz

4th Colin McBeth 1lb 15oz

5th Dave Ridley 1lb 13oz

6th Richard Darbon 1lb 5oz 8drm

7th Simon Faulkes 1lb 5oz

8th Sean Leatherland 1lb 1oz

9th Tim Watts 1lb 0oz

10th Steve Lathwell 0lb 10oz

11th (Joint) Dennis Hunt&Bart Bonito 0lb 6oz

13th Tony Hickmott 0lb 3oz

14th Adrian Smith 0lb 2oz

DNW Les Burton, Ray Burton.

Our next Match is on Wednesday 24th April and is at Twin Lakes Biddenham.

We do have a couple of spaces left so if any other members want to come, please let us know.

Draw 8.30 at the venue £5.00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, and fishery peg fee, fish 10am till 3pm.

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time can we ask you message us so we know you are coming before turning up, as we need to ensure we have room as this will allow us to better manage the pegging.

You will be asked to produce your Club book at first appearance, so please have it with you.

If you would like to send us a catch report from a Luton AC Water you can send reports and pictures via our facebook page and other social media accounts, the club website or via what’s app message to 07940 229071. Don’t forget every picture we receive is automatically entered in to our monthly photo prize which is judged by the committee and you could win £25.00. It’s not always the biggest fish that wins so well worth sending in any of your catch reports. Tight Lines Until Next Week! Dave M Luton AC www.lutonanglingclub.co.uk www.facebook.com/LutonAC www.instagram.com/lutonanglingclub

Here is all the latest news, information and catch reports from all Luton Angling Club waters for the week ending 14th April 2024.

Membership Renewals Update

Anyone who has renewed already will receive their book and key ready for 1st June and we hoper to starts sending them out in the next week or two.Please be patient as this is a busy time task for our membership secretary who has to fit this all in around his work commitments.

Prospective new members who have registered their email/mobile number on our waiting/interest list will receive an email and text on 1st May as soon as membership for new members goes on sale. All our membership is first come first served so be quick when you receive the text & email as we expect to sell out quickly!

Beckerings Reservoir

Edgaras Balaika had an amazing night at Beckerings last Friday. He had 15 carp out with weights ranging from 14lb up to 25lb 9oz, he also had 3 Bream and lost another 3 fish, 2 of his catches were double takes.

Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings

Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings

Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings

Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings

Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings

Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings

Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings

Jason Mash was not having much success fishing on the bottom at Beckerings on Saturday, so he switched one rod to a zig and had these two nice commons.

Jason Mash - Beckerings Common

Nick Lynch had a good session at Beckerings catching multiple carp, All his fish were caught on Mamba baits Papi-Nut and Shrimp + Pepper boilies

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Grand Union Canal

Leo Levesque one of our Junior Kingfisher members and his family went to Three Locks today. Putting all the skills they've learnt into practice, Leo caught loads of fish and Dad Romain had a superb Perch.

Leo - Grand Union Canal

Leo - Grand Union Canal

Leo - Grand Union Canal

Romain's Perch - Grand Union Canal

Fergal O'Kane and Dennis Vivian went to the canal at Grove lock on Saturday. There was one other angler who joined them in the same pound. So not over crowded. They all had a Bream about the 3lb mark, Dennis lost a second one. Fergal had roach, skimmers, perch, gudgeon and a chublet. he did not have any scales, but the best perch looked to be 2lb plus, the next biggest was at least a pound.

Grand Union Canal Perch - Fergal O'Kane

Neville Hunt fished on the canal at the weekend and had a bumper haul of bream the weather was cloudy with sunny intervals. All were caught on maggot and worm..

Neville's Bream haul from the canal.

North House Lake

Warren Griffiths had 2 large Bream and a Tench, Jonny Bridgeman had a nice 29lb Common.

Jonny Bridgeman - 29lb Common Carp from North House

South Lagoon

The bailiff reported anglers catching a few bream up to 5lb and another had a carp but no size was mentioned. Lots of skimmers and roach also being caught.

Wednesday Match Report 10th April 2024

Beckerings Reservoir

Many of the Wednesday group had been looking forward to our weekly Wednesday match this week, which was held at Beckerings. 21 anglers met in the car park on what was initially a fine clear morning with a gentle breeze. However, this was not to last, and before long, a strong gusting wind appeared, along with some nasty rain squalls. The wind was blowing off the far bank towards the gate bank, and for those pegged on this side, the wind, waves, and rain directly in our faces made it a challenging experience! There was no doubt that the wild day and difficult conditions contributed to lower than expected catches with some very good anglers recording low weights or worse still DNW.

Winner on the day was Jim Tookey, who fished two lines with the feeder one long at 48 Metres and another short at 27 Metres. Jim was fishing groundbait feeder with maggot hookbait. He reported that all his 3 Bream come from the longer line and he had to play about with the presentation to tempt bites, ending with 19lb 5oz.

Second was venue expert and Beckerings bailiff Colin Holmes he said after being pegged on the gate bank, he would have liked to have had wind behind him, but it is what it is! Colin was fishing with 12 wraps (35 / 36 Metres) He started with a 36g feeder but then then went for a less weight at 28g but bigger physical size. His bait was Ringers 6mm wafters in orange or yellow pushed on a twisted wire bayonet spike on the hook loop. His method mix was 2mm ringers and 2mm F1 pellets mixed and soaked. Colin took 2 bream about 7lb each and 3 skimmers for 15lb 15oz.

Steve Lathwell fished the tip all day, taking odd skimmers, and decided to change his groundbait feeder setup to a window feeder with a 16 hook and dead reds and finally hooked a 7lb 10 bream, giving him 9lb 7oz

Dennis Hunt fished the tip with a groundbait feeder and a bunch of red maggot on the hook at 25 Metres to take a 7lb 6oz Bream and a skimmer but lost an unseen fish to a particularly violent take that tried to tow his rod in at one point. Dennis ended with 8lb 1oz, rueing what might have been…

Terry Vickers took a very nice Tench on the float at about 3 Metres off the platform and here were some very nice roach and Ide taken in the backup weights but not a lot of pictures this week due to adverse weather conditions!

Dudley Frankland's 2lb 11oz weight included a nice Roach of 1lb 11oz which he was delighted with.

A big thank you to Mark Sessions and the Beckerings Bailiff team for making us so welcome at the venue

Results

1st Jim Tookey 19lb 5oz

2nd Colin Holmes 15lb 15oz

3rd Steve Lathwell 9lb 7oz

4th Dennis Hunt 8lb 1oz

5th Terry Vickers 7lb 40z

6th Andy Frankum 3lb 14oz

7th Sean Leatherland 3lb 10oz

8th Dudley Frankland 2lb 11oz

9th Andy Norgate 2lb 7oz

10th Richard (Tiptree) Darbon 2lb 2oz

11th Bart Bonito 1lb 2oz

12th Tony Hickmott 0lb 15oz

13th Chris Howard 0lb 12oz

14th Colin McBeth 0lb 10oz

15th Ray Burton 0lb 9oz

16th Simon Faulkes 0lb 30z

17th Dave Ridley 0lb 2oz

18th Adrian Smith 0lb 1oz

DNW Les Burton, Matthew Howard, Malcolm Ogden

Our next Match is on Wednesday 17th April and is on the GUC at Town North.

Draw 8.30 at the venue £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 10am till 3pm.

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time can we ask you message us so we know you are coming before turning up, these events are becoming extremely popular and we need to ensure we have room and allow us to better manage the pegging.

You will be asked to produce your Club book at first appearance, so please have it with you.

Beckerings Match - Dennis Hunt

Beckerings Match - Jim Tookey

Beckerings Match - Steve Lathwell

Let’s Fish’ Town South Thursday 11 April 2024

The Luton Club coaching team have had a busy time this week, as we delivered our second successful CRT ‘Lets Fish’ event of the week sponsored by the Whitbread community Fund on Thursday, using the Grand Union Canal in Leighton Buzzard.

Being Easter half term, there were plenty of people of all ages eager to give angling a go, and all the events have been fully booked.

All the coaches delivering the sessions, and those who came to try angling enjoyed the experiences and lots of fish were landed. This has helped generate lots of interest in joining the Club as a Junior and learning more.

To help us capture data of those eager to access our follow on activities we launched our latest initiative, developed by Dave Murdoch our Club IT specialist and Membership Secretary with input from the Coaches, a QR code sheet which is linked to a data capture page which parents can complete.

This enables those attending to register to be sent further details of our coaching programs, and perhaps join our Kingfishers, and give us some feedback on our session delivery . This has already been a great success, generating lots of interest and some new Kingfisher members already. Some of the comments received are below:

Olivia, Fraser, and Ted

Fraser and Ted had a great session with Mark and Adrian, they were patient, enthusiastic and knowledgeable. The boys enjoyed a bit of healthy competition with them.

Nicola and Ben

Coaches were very friendly and explained everything very well to the right level. They boys felt very comfortable around them. Thank you for giving up your time to do these events. The boys came away wanting more!

Ben, one of our new Kingfisher members is pictured enjoying his introductory session with Coach Adrian Smith, during which he caught a good number of fish of several species.

Well done Ben, we wish you great success in your angling journey, and a big thank you to Mum Nicola for supplying the pictures.

Do you know somebody who would like to give angling a go?

If so why not sign up for a CRT ‘Lets fish’ taster Session

Ben at the Luton AC Let's Fish Event

A Busy End to the Easter Holidays for our Kingfishers.
It’s been great to see so many of our Luton Kingfishers out and about enjoying themselves, some fishing with our coaches and some with their parents this weekend, and all having a great time and catching well.

Adrian Smith one of our Club coaches had to do an ‘Observed’ coaching session on Saturday to complete his L2 Lead Coach certification, so we invited two keen Kingfishers onto the bank at Town South in Leighton Buzzard to help him with this.

Both our young volunteers were called Max, which made a confusing session! Max 1 (Joined us last year and had been out with us a couple of weeks ago, and Max 2) was a newbie who came to his fist ‘Lets Fish’ a week ago having never fished before had a great time.

Adrian started by explaining to the boys how to set up a box, put a pole together properly, attach a rig, and plumb the depth correctly, which the boys enjoyed, and then they were off fishing.

What a fantastic session we had! We started the session using Pinkies fished over groundbait and caught well, then Max 1 asked if he could use Bread Punch, resulting in a great bite and the biggest fish he has ever caught, a fabulous Canal Bream of about 4lbs. Max 1’s Mum will enter this fish for the CRT Catch of the month competition so let’s hope he wins a prize!

Max 2 also caught well and unfortunately lost a big bream but did end up with two at a couple of pounds each, a fantastic session and both boys are enthusiastic to come again next week when we have a Club session at Three Locks. The smiles on the faces of the boys in the picture say it all.

Other Kingfishers have been out with their parents and have been sending pictures of their catches to us, Leo Levesque had a cracking Bream, and Jack out with his dad had some cracking fish, however the best of the session was Dad’s Perch, which Jack is holding.

Max 2 with his Bream

Max 1 with his Bream

Leo's Bream

Perch caught by Jack's Dad

Tight Lines Until Next Week!

Dave M

Luton AC

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Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 14th April 2024