Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area for the Week Ending 30th March 2025.

Here is this weeks news, information and catch report round up from Luton Angling Club.

Reports are now starting to come in and with the clocks now forward one hour for summer, There will be more time to get out on the bank as the evenings are lighter. Let's hope the weather is a bit dryer than last year.

South Lagoon Wyboston
South Lagoon continues to fish very well and a number of carp catches have been reported in recent weeks. We have never known so many carp to be caught from the lagoon and we think that some of these are escapees from other waters have found the lagoon on their travels along the river and have made it their home.

Paul Sweet and Sam Kite fished South Lagoon Saturday night. Paul had 5 carp, 3 bream, and Sam had 1 carp & 2 bream they only took pictures of the 2 biggest carp, the other carp were under 10lb.

Paul Sweet - South Lagoon

We have now received a couple of pictures from Paul Webb of the Tench that we reported he had caught from the lagoon last week.

Paul Webb - Tench - South Lagoon

It was Lucky rather than unlucky Peg 13 for Bill Ridgway. He had a fairly slow but productive day with some good weather. He fished 2 red maggots over krill ground bait 30 yards out and had a number of nice bream.

Bill Ridgway - South Lagoon

Beckerings Reservoir
Amer Jawad fished Beckerings for the first time in a while. He had heard it’s been fishing hard of late, but he managed a few bream late in the session.

Jason Mash was one of a number of anglers on the reservoir on Wednesday but it was a tough day and as far as he knows the Carp he had was the only fish on the bank that day.

Nick Lynch had 2 carp out over Thursday night. Both were caught on Papi-Nut by Mamba Baits. Weights were 27lb and 15lb, the 27lb one was 24lb 10oz on 29th Aug 2023 when he last caught it.

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

MATCH AT BECKERINGS 09/04/2025 Beckerings will be closed on 9th April 2025 from 8am until 4pm as the Luton AC Wednesday match group have a large match (20+ anglers) and the majority of the swims will be taken, and the car park will be at capacity. If you are fishing on Tuesday night please vacate the reservoir and car park by 8am and if you want to fish Wednesday evening or Wednesday night please do not arrive until after 4pm. This match is open to all club members however most spaces are already booked. Please contact the club if you would like to take part and we can let you know If there are any spaces available or put you on a reserve list in case of any cancellations.

Grand Union Canal

Dennis Hunt had another nice short session on Town South today fishing Punch and feeding liquidised bread, the total bait bill for the day was probably about 50p.

The Bream in the picture was probably about 3lb and was the biggest of the day backed up with a few Skimmers and some nice chunky roach. Probably about 10lb in all, and again the fish were no more than 4 Metres.

A cold wind got up around midday so he decided after putting up with it for about an hour to go home.

Dennis Hunt - Grand Union Canal

Luton Angling Club - Annual General Meeting 27th March 2025

The Luton Angling Club Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday night. Various topics were discussed. The big announcement was the addition of some new waters at Fishers Green, this includes access to 3.9km of the River Lea which regularly produces specimen Barbel and Chub, the Flood Relief Channel, Seventy Acre Lake, Hooks Marsh Pit, part of Langridge Lake and the top end of Cornmill Stream. More details on these venues will be on the website in the next few days. We share access to these waters with some other clubs as part of the Fishers Green Consortium.

New Waters

New Waters

New Waters

Our local EA enforcement officer gave a very interesting talk on what he and the EA do to protect our fish,wildlife and venues.

AGM

President Ken Scott presented specimen awards to those who had caught the best of each species. We must sincerely apologise to Adrian Smith as due to an admin error we missed the specimen award for his eel that he caught in May 2024. Sorry Adrian this will be rectified and we'll get the award to you. Various other awards were presented including the Diamond Jubilee Trophy which went to Mark Brooks for his outstanding contribution to the club coaching activities. Awards were also presented to several of our Junior anglers for their achievements over the year.

AGM

AGM

AGM

AGM

RENEWALS AND NEW MEMBERSHIPS

RENEWALS – Existing Members can RENEW online from 1st April and will have priority throughout April.

Please renew your membership in April to guarantee your place for 2025/26
Don't miss out!
NEW MEMBERSHIPS - On the 1st May any un-renewed membership will be made available to new members. Any member that joined direct with the membership secretary or by postal application last year will receive a renewal form in the post. We urge you if possible to join online as it really does cut down the work and costs involved with posting out renewal forms.

Our annual subscriptions for 2025/26 were set as follows:-

Adult (age 16yrs+)£115.00

Senior (age 65yrs+)£80.00

Disabled £80.00

Junior Night (up to age 16) £80.00

Junior (no night fishing) £12.00

3rd Rod Add On £57.50

We unfortunately have to discontinue our Family Membership class this year due to processing and admin complications. Family Membership holders will have to renew as individual Adult and Junior members.

Wednesday Match 26th March 2024 GUC Town South

This week’s midweek match took place at the Town South Stretch of the GUC in Leighton Buzzard. 16 expectant anglers turned up, hoping that with a more temperate side to the weather being evident, the fish would also be more obliging.

The canal was at a good level and carried a fair amount of colour which reinforced the grounds for optimism. However, the fish thought otherwise, and small fish were generally the order of the day for most anglers The temperature at the draw was 7 degrees C rising to 11 degrees C at the warmest point when the sun showed up

Several boats passed through during the match with one rather large, particularly decrepit example powered by an outboard motor with obviously difficult steerage which thrashed the water to a foam which didn’t help.

Pete Mills was the last angler to show up at the venue, arriving just 2 minutes before the draw for pegs. He drew peg 1 opposite the flats and promptly won the match with 6lbs 13 ounces and 8 drams of skimmer bream and perch. He fished initially on 4m whip with pinkie as bait and then switched to an 11m line with caster on groundbait. Perhaps turning up at the last minute can be an advantage!! .

Pete was run close by Dave Ridley on Peg 2 who netted a very creditable bag of skimmers and perch for a weight of 5llbs 5 ounces. In third place was the indomitable Bart Bonito weighing in 2lbs 13 ounces of mainly small fish. One small fish he caught attracted the attention of a pike which added to the excitement.

Dave Abbott completed the frame with a weight of 2lbs 3 ounces. After that the remaining anglers struggled to find any fish of consistent quality and small fish became the order of the day with the odd fish above 6 ounces as a bonus. Malcolm Ogden did forsake the small fish approach and went big with his feeder- his reward was a weight of 1lb 2ounces and 8 drams made of one decent sized Perch. Well done, Malcolm. Also, on the credit side there were no dry nets, and all had the pleasure of seeing the float sink under the water.

Thank you to Barry Roper for his efforts to get the match under way by pegging the stretch and thank you to Tony Hickmott for organising the financial side of matters and weighing in. Finally thank you to Tracey who turned up as usual getting Sean’s tackle to his peg together with being the scribe for the weigh in.

Overall, it was quite a hard day’s fishing but at least the weather was kind to us. Well done to those who managed to find some decent fish and to the rest for making it a pleasant day all round.

Results

1st Pete Mills 6lbs 13 oz 8 drams

2nd Dave Ridley 5lbs 5 oz

3rd Bart Bonito 2lbs 13oz

4th Dave Abbott 2 lbs 3 oz

5th Sean Leatherland 1lb 13oz

6th Syd Wilson 1lbs 11oz 8 drams

7th Tim Watts 1lbs 8 oz

8th Simon Foulkes 1lb 6oz

9th Barry Roper 1lb 4oz

10th Malcolm Ogden 1lb 2oz 8 drams

11th Chris Howard 1lbs 1 oz

12th Steve Lathwell 0lb 12oz

13th Dudley Frankland 0lb 8oz 8 drams

14th Les Burton 0lb 6oz 8 drams

15th Tony Hickmott 5oz 8 drams

16th Terry Vickers 0lbs 3 oz

Our next match is Wednesday 2nd April. at Three Locks, Stoke Hammond. Draw at the venue at 8.30 as usual, £5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 pegging fee, Fish 10.00am – 3.00 pm

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time please message us so we know you are coming before turning up. This will help us to manage the pegging of the venue which has a finite number of available pegs. Please bring your club membership book with you as you will be asked to produce it for your first appearance.

Wednesday Match

Wednesday Match

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 into 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

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area for the Week Ending 23rd March 2025.

Here is the latest news, information and catch report round up from Luton Angling Club. Apologies for the lack of weekly reports, we have had few reports sent in. As the weather is now warming up we are starting to see the fish waking up and more reports coming in as more people get out on the bank.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Our Annual general meeting is this Thursday 27th March at Stopsley Working Mens Club, 3 Putteridge Road, Luton, LU2 8HG and starts at 19:30hrs. There is free parking on site and a bar is available. Club members are encouraged to attend - Please bring your membership book with you.

South Lagoon - Wyboston

West Thomas landed this magnificent 35lb 13oz Common Carp on Friday night.

West Thomas - 35lb 13oz Common Carp - South Lagoon

Also on South Lagoon, Day Ticket angler Scott Sharpe was having some nice bream and small carp.

Scott Sharpe - South Lagoon

Scott Sharpe - South Lagoon

Paul Webb reported to the bailiff that he had a brace of Perch at around 3lb each and also had a couple of nice Tench, but unfortunately there are no pictures to go with the report.

Andrew Elliman fished the lagoon a couple of weeks back and had a cracking session on his final Pike session of the Winter. He landed two Pike the biggest of these was 15lb 8oz. He also lost another three but rather that than deep hooking them. He had Nice dry weather for a change and some stunning views. All fish caught right out in the middle on smelt.

Andrew Elliman - South Lagoon

Andrew Elliman - Pike - South Lagoon

North House Lake - Wyboston

At in an early morning mist at North House Lake at 5am Sunday morning, Rod Gladston had a 28lb Common, then at 8am the 2nd fish of the session which was another common at 12lb

Rod Gladston - North House Lake

Rod Gladston - North House Lake

Rod Gladston - North House Lake

Rod Gladston - North House Lake

Match Report 19th March 2025 Danni’s How End

The weather gods worked their magic on the last day of winter and this week we were treated to a lovely spring day for our Wednesday outing, with coats and hoodies soon discarded as we all bathed in the warm sunshine and looked at a cloudless blue sky for the first time in months.

Danni’s was holding good colour and was calm with a slight ripple, but the water was still cold with an overnight frost of -2C bringing the temperature down. The day was perhaps a bit bright for optimal fishing conditions, but after the awful winter I don’t believe those fishing were really bothered as the temperature rose and peaked at 20C in the afternoon.

Andy Frankum using maggot and groundbait fed to the island margins in front and the left nearside edge of his swim. Andy decided to fish rod and line rather than a pole and caught most of his fish on a waggler fished over to the to the island, only taking odd fish down the edge to end with a nice bag of carp and silvers weighing 46lb 10oz for first place this week.

Richard Gibbs out with us again after five months laid up due to a serious back operation proved he hadn’t forgotten how to fish during his enforced absence and caught 39lbs 2oz of silvers, roach, ide, chub and a few skimmer bream for second. Richard used his MAP margin pole at 7 metres in around 2ft of water. He fed groundbait, micro pellets and loose fed maggot and took nearly all the fish on this line with a 16's hook and maggot as bait on the hook.

Colin Holmes started by fishing a method feeder and three carp came to the pellet bait close to the island in very quick succession once he changed over to it from the original maggot presentation, and it then it went quiet. Moving to the inside line on a pole he had small chub, then another carp, and then this also died, so he changed tactics and went on a waggler back over to the island, and had another carp on maggots, finishing with 30lb 15oz.

We all agreed we had a very enjoyable day in the warm sunshine and big thanks go to Richard for the Admin, Tracy and the weighing team, and Phil, Tanya and Pip at How End for making us so welcome as usual.

Results

1st Andy Francome 46lb 10oz

2nd Richard Gibbs 39lb 2oz

3rd Colin Holmes 30lb 15oz

4th Simon Foulks 25lb 7oz

5th Steve Lathwell 21lb 11oz

6th Mark Smith 20lb 0oz

7th Richard Darbon 19lb 8oz

8th Brian Shaw 18lb 8oz

9th Dennis Hunt 17lb 10oz

10th Dave Ridley 15lb 9oz

11th Howard Hornby 10lb 15oz

12th Colin Kidd 10lbs 12oz

13th Les Burton 10lb 6oz

14th Sean Leatherland 8lb 1oz

15th Terry Vickers 6lb 2oz

16th Dudley Frankland 1lb 7oz

Our next Match is on Wednesday 26th March is on the GUC at Town South

Draw 08.30 at the venue, £5.00 optional pools £2.00 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, 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.

How End - Danni's

Match Report 12th March 2025 Biddenham

This week we couldn’t wait to have a final crack at one of the river sections before the Close Season comes into effect, and we were all looking forward to fishing Biddenham. The venue had obviously suffered in the winter flooding, but the car park was drying out nicely.

Several swims had new ‘features’, with a lot of these being on the far bank.

The warmer weather of recent days had unfortunately disappeared, and we were met on Wednesday with a chilly morning indispersed with periods of sunshine when the day felt slightly warmer. We had a slight shower early on but no real rain until we were leaving the car park at the end of the match.

The river had dropped back in recent days and had a nice steady flow a winter green colour and was exceptionally clear. We measured the water temperature in the Ouse at 9 degrees C, and Barometric pressure was 1003 mb and stable.

As we started to fish, it soon became apparent we were in for a challenging day as bites were at a premium. Although the bites were scarce, there were a number of those fishing that reported losing what seemed to be larger fish which were thought to have been either Perch or bigger Chub.

Chris Howard spent some time running his float through the swim with little results and was starting to think that his only option was to try and catch a few bleak, when he noticed a patch of bubbles just downstream about a metre from bank. The bubbles didn’t seem to move very much, and for no obvious reason, there was a slack where they appeared. His curiosity awakened he laid on with a worm and his hunch paid off in spectacular fashion as Chris ended up catching 3 large Perch from this feature, the best about 2lb 8oz, to end up with first place and a weight of 4lb 12oz.

Second place was taken by Barry Roper who started fishing on the bottom with a 6m whip. His bait was intercepted by bleak on the way down, and no roach seemed to be feeding,he went shallow to catch a few. The rest of the match, Barry, alternated between shallow and deep to catch 32 bleak for 10 oz.

Dave Ridley caught some Bleak and Minnows short on 4m whip using pinkie. He also used a waggler and managed a few small roach caught short on red maggots. He reported the Minnows escaped through the keepnet mesh!

Thanks to everyone who assisted with the admin and weigh in.

Results

1st Chris Howard 4lb 12oz

2nd Barry Roper 0lb 10oz

3rd Richard Darbon 0lb 9oz 8drm

4th (Joint) Colin Holmes & Dave Ridley 0lb 8oz

6th (Joint) Les Burton & Andy Francome 0lb 3oz

8th Tony Hickmott 0lb 1oz

9th Dennis Hunt 0lb 0oz 8drm

DNW Terry Vickers, Ray Burton, Malcolm Ogden Dudley Frankland

The next Match is on Wednesday 19th March is on Dani’s at How End

Draw 8:45am in the Car park at the venue, £5.00 optional pools £2.00 Wednesday peg fee, £10.00 venue peg fee fish 10-30 am till 3:30pm.

Please under no circumstances arrive before 8:15 at the venue and if you do arrive early don’t park on adjacent roads due to complaints from the fishery neighbours.

Biddenham River Ouse

Biddenham River Ouse

Canal and River Trust Celebration Events 2025

Tickets are on sale now for the Canal and River Trust Celebration events, Luton AC already have many of it's young Cadets and Junior anglers booked to take part and as this event is sponsored by Daiwa, there will be a great prize pool, do you know a young angler who wants to join in?

There are 29 regional celebration events being held this year across 7 regions around the country during the spring and summer. Luton Angling Club are hosting one on 18th May at Leighton Buzzard and you can book a place at the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../daiwa-leighton-buzzard...

There is both an individual and team element this year, which is perfect preparation for the National Celebration events that will be taking place on 13th and 14th September.

The events are ideal for any young person aged 6 or over who has been fishing a few times and is keen to learn more. This is considered ideal preparation for the National Celebration of Young People and Fishing and for anyone who would like to represent a country in the Global Communities Celebration event on Saturday 18th October 2025.

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area for the Week Ending 9th March 2025.

Here is the Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area for the Week Ending 9th March 2025.

MEMBERSHIP: I'm starting to get enquiries about 2025/26 membership starting 1st June 2025.

EXISTING MEMBERS: Will be contacted for renewal in April, and there will be a period of time (Month of April) where they have priority - renewal in April guarantees your membership. Please DO NOT fill in the register your interest on the website.

NEW MEMBERS:On 1st May, any un-renewed membership will be made available to NEW members, and these are expected to sell out quickly if the last few years are anything to go by. If you are looking to become a new member, be sure to register your interest at www.lutonanglingclub.co.uk, and you'll be notified when membership goes on sale - Dave M - Membership Secretary

South Lagoon - Wyboston
Wojciech had a monster Zander from the South Lagoon at Wyboston Monday night weighing 15lb 3oz.

Wojciech Weremij - Zander

Beckerings Reservoir

Liam Murphy had 2 carp from Beckerings during a 24hr session this weekend both from the margins on bottom baits.

Liam Murphy - Beckerings

Liam Murphy - Beckerings

Slipe Lane Pits

Following the previous stocking of 500 6" to 8" Roach into the Boot Pit at Slipe Lane Pits at the beginning of February, a second stocking of small Tench and Carp took place today. This stocking was carried out directly by the Turnford Consortium (which Luton Angling Club is part of) The stockings are part of their ongoing improvement program.

Stocking - Slipe Lane Boot Pit

Grand Union Canal

A few lovely spring-like days and some warmer nights prompted Dennis Hunt and Roger Baker to have an impromptu session on the Canal at Town South today (Saturday), and both had a great day.

The morning was fine and warm the temperature rose to 17C in the afternoon. The Canal had a steady flow until midday, caused by CRT running off water into the Ouzel, and was holding good colour, but despite the warmer temperatures, it was still very cold.

Both Dennis and Roger had decided on a minimal tackle approach using Carbon whips using punch over liquidised bread as bait. Dennis, using his old Browning 3Metre Speed stick, had decided to try a float given to him by Wednesday group member and master float maker Tony (Sweeties) Hickmott.

After feeding a couple of walnut sized balls of liquidised bread and with 7mm punch on the hook the float buried and a roach came to hand, followed by another and then a run of very decent skimmer bream. The fish continued to come throughout the session and Dennis ended with 8 Skimmers, a couple of big Hybrids, a Chub of around a pound and some nice stamp roach and a gudgeon, ending up with an estimated 15lb+, not a bad day on 50p's worth of bait

Skimmer - Grand Union Canal
Hybrid - Grand Union Canal
Chub - Grand Union Canal
Hybrid - Grand Union Canal
Pole Float
Bread Punch

Match Report 5th March 2025 Yasis at How End

This week we couldn’t fish Lavendon because of the car park conditions and the high river levels, so we had to hastily rearrange, and our thanks are due to Phil Stone at How End for making Yasi's available to us at short notice.

The weather was so different to a week ago, we didn’t all get wet! although we did have a cold night on Tuesday.

We were met at How End with a lovely blue sky with little wind and warm temperatures rising to 15C during the day, it was great to feel the warm sun.

We did our swim draw and headed for the swims to set up, and for some the sun directly in our eyes proved too bright! Due to the high pressure, cold night and clear sky. With the lakes still very cold but holding good colour it was always going to be a challenging day.

Or winner this week was Andy Francome, who fed groundbait and maggot to his right and left down the edge and over to island to take Carp and silvers for 25lb 5oz.

Sean Leatherland ran Andy a close second with 21lb 5oz, taking three small Carp however most of the weight came from small Chub. Sean took his fish at 12.5 metres fishing into a far bank bay, using double red maggot, He fed maggot via a catapult when the wind and the venues ducks allowed!

Dave Ridley came third with 12lb 3oz, and Colin Holmes came in fourth.

Colin started off fishing his pole at 2+ 2 and had a few bites, but then went it all went quiet, so he changed to a rod and line float approach and cast to island. He caught straight away but these were only small fish, so he went back to his pole close in, and had a few more fish it then went quiet again. Colin repeated this process all day to keep his fish coming. He caught all his fish on double red maggots and ended with 10lb 5oz.

Our thanks are due to Phil Stone for the venue and all those who helped run the match by doing the admin, and Tracey who helped with the weigh in.

Results

1st Andy Francome 25lb 5oz

2nd Sean Leatherland 21lb 5oz

3rd Dave Ridley 12lb 3oz

4th Colin Holmes 10lb 5oz

5th Steve Lathwell 10lb 4oz

6th Colin Kidd 8lb 2oz

7th Dennis Hunt 5lb 1oz

8th Roger Baker 4lb 15oz

9th Richard Darbon 4lb 11oz

10th Malcolm Ogden 4lb 2oz

11th Les Burton 0lb 13oz

DNW Simon Faukes & Andy Norgate

Our next match is on Wednesday 12th March and is on the river at Biddenham.

Draw 8.30 in the Car park at the venue, £5.00 optional pools £2.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 10am till 3pm.

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

Yasi's at How End

Yasi's at How End

Match Report 26th February 2025 GUC The Globe Pairs

What a difference a day makes! Tuesday had been a lovely day, but the forecast for Wednesday wasn’t that great, however we were hopeful that the day wouldn’t be as bad as forecast. As we left home hopes were high as it was a nice bright morning.

We had arranged parking with the Pub and as we met in the car park to do our peg draw light rain began to fall. By the time we got to the pegs and set up for the off the rain had increased in intensity and began to be very heavy, and it continued for the next 3 hours, the forecast had been correct after all!

The Canal had the colour of coffee, but the water temperature was recorded as 8C and had risen by 3C since we last fished it.

This week, we had a drawn pairs match, with 11 pairs drawn in advance and a random peg draw on the day. We had pegged an 11 angler section either side of the Globe giving us two sections with the winning team to be decided on points. In event of a points draw the place is decided on weight. Section A towards Leighton fished reasonably well but the section towards Three Locks was unfortunately not as good.

Individual winner in the day was Dave Whillock on section A with a nice net of bream weighing 11lb 10oz.

Second on A was Steve Lathwell who I fished pinkie over ground bait with a splash of natural bream liquid and a little bit of chopped worm, taking small blade skimmers for most of the day to finish with 6lb 10oz. Third placed was Syd Wilson who managed 6lb 3oz.

Pete Mills fed liquidised bread and fished punch for the first hour at 4m for a ‘pair of eyes’, and then switched to pinkie and caught a few small roach and skimmers. The best was 12oz in a 30minute period on the same line and then it dried up as the rain stopped at midday. He went over at 13m for the last hour and picked up odd small skimmers.

Section B was a grueller won by Sean Leatherland. Sean managed a few small fish on pinkie on a line at 2.5 Mtrs and then went across to 11Mtrs feeding crumb and fishing pinkie, and on this line had some better roach and a bonus 1lb Skimmer.

Second on B was Dudley Frankland with 0lb 14 1/2 oz followed by Chris Howard with 0lb 14oz

Top 3 Pairs were

1st Steve Lathwell and Dave Ridley

2nd Sean Leatherland & Peter Mills

3rd Terry Vickers & Dave Abbot

4th Simon Faukes & Dudley Frankland

Special mention should be made of Les Burton who is undergoing an aggressive hospital treatment at the moment and desperately wanted to get out and fish with us this week. Les didn’t fish the pairs, and we gave him a special ‘Short Walk’ draw nearest the pub where he weighed in 6lb 8oz, very well done Les, and best wishes for a speedy recovery

After the match we retired to the Globe and while packing our tackle in our cars we noticed water rising and flooding the lower end of the car park due to the rapidly rising River Ouzel. We moved cars to the higher level parking, however while drinking a pint we were told that the top of the car park was in danger of flooding as well, so we finished our drinks and left in rather a hurry.

Our thanks are due to The Globe for allowing us to park, and all those who helped run the match by pegging and doing the admin, and Tracey and Roger Baker who came to help with the weigh in.

Results

Section A Towards Leighton Buzzard

1st Dave Whillock 11lb 10oz

2nd Steve Lathwell 6lb 10oz

3rd Syd Wilson 6lb 3oz

4th Tim Watts 3lb 6oz

5th Terry Vickers 3lb 3oz

6th Simon Faukes 2lb 14oz

7th Peter Mills 2lb 3oz

8th Malcolm Ogden 2lb 8oz

9th Colin MacBeth 1lb 4oz

10th Ray Burton 1lb 1oz

11th Dennis Hunt 0lb 10oz

Section B Towards Three Locks

1st Sean Leatherland 2lb 6oz

2nd Dudley Frankland 0lb 14oz 8drm

3rd Chris Howard & Dave Abbott 0lb 14oz

5th Dave Ridley 0lb 9oz

6th Richard Darbon 0lb 8oz

7th Barry Roper 5oz 8drm

8th Keith Ward 0lb 5oz

9th Tony Hickmott 0lb 2 oz

DNW Andy Frankum & Colin Holmes

Les Burton 6lb 8oz

Our next Match is on Wednesday 5th March was on the River at Lavendon. Unfortunately, due to high water and flood conditions (see picture) this will no longer be possible, so we have organised an alternative venue at How End. Draw 8.30 in the Car park at the venue , £5.00 optional pools £2.00 Wednesday peg fee, £10.00 fishery peg fee, fish 10am till 3pm.

Wednesday Match 26.2.25

Wednesday Match 26.2.25

Wednesday Match 26.2.25

Water rising in the Globe car park

a rainy day on the canal

Flooding at Lavendon