Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports

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

Luton AC River Sections
Jason Mash has started targetting the Luton AC waters for the Predators, he's off to a great start as fishing on one of our River Ouse stretches (undisclosed location) produced 7 nice perch, these are two of the better fish, with the biggest going 3lb 8oz.

Jason Mash - River Ouse Perch

Neville Hunt fished on Lavendon Downstream and had a lucky catch, he had this 8lb Pike on 4 maggots, on a size 18 hook and a 5lb hooklength

Neville Hunt - Lavendon Downstream

North House Lake
With the weed at North House being quite bad at the minute, Carlo was finding it difficult to get a good presentation. He was really chuffed that he managed to land this one.

Carlo - North House Lake

Martin Scholes did a 2 night session recently and had 4 fish, He lost the fifth with a hook pull when he picked the rod up. Thanks to Jason Mash for taking the picture of the last fish which was the best of the session.

Martin Scholes - North House Lake

Beckerings Shoot Dates – Winter 2025/26

Please note the following dates when shooting will take place on the land surrounding Beckerings Reservoir. On MOST dates, the reservoir remains open for fishing as normal, with shooting typically confined to a short period in the early afternoon.

However, on some dates, the reservoir will be closed from 12pm due to shooting taking place close to or within the perimeter fence. No night bookings will be accepted on these closure dates.

Reservoir Open – Shooting Nearby

Saturday 11th October

Friday 17th October

Thursday 30th October

Friday 7th November

Thursday 20th November

Saturday 22nd November

Saturday 29th November

Saturday 6th December

Thursday 11th December

Saturday 10th January

Wednesday 14th January

Reservoir Closed from 12pm – You must leave by midday

Friday 14th November

Thursday 27th November

Thursday 18th December

Friday 2nd January 2026

Friday 23rd January 2026

Please plan your visits accordingly and respect any advice from the gamekeepers.

More information at https://www.lutonanglingclub.co.uk/noticeboard

2025 Grand Union South Junior Championship – Saturday 10th October, Three Locks

Luton proudly hosted this year’s GUC South Junior Championship at Three Locks, welcoming 16 young anglers — nine of whom were our own Luton Juniors. The match was split into age groups: six Cadets (6–10yrs) and ten Juniors (11–16yrs), fished to CRT rules with a 3-metre restriction for the first 90 minutes.

Cadets fished for 3 hours, Juniors for 3½, and for many it was their first ever match — excitement was high! After meeting in the car park for the draw, our young anglers made their way to pegged swims on Luton Section 4 above the lock. We were delighted to welcome one Cadet from Rochdale, others from Northampton and Wellingborough, and three girls — including one representing Luton.

The morning dawned fine at around 10°C, slightly chilly after a cool night, with overcast skies and barely a breeze. The canal had good colour, though cooling slightly, and for mid-October, conditions were near perfect.

As some of our young anglers only began fishing in late summer, they received coaching support throughout the match. All caught multiple fish and thoroughly enjoyed their time on the bank — the beaming smiles in the photos say it all.

Cadet Results (6–10yrs)

Mason Connor – 3lb 6oz (mixed bag)

Dexter Peacock – 1lb 14oz

Ella Justo – 1lb 11oz

Junior Results (11–16yrs)

Jack O’Brien (Luton) – 3lb 1oz (roach)

Daniel Carr (Luton) – 1lb 13oz (roach & perch)

Luke Powell – 1lb 8oz

Special mention: Alex Ropke (Luton) with a cracking 15oz perch in his catch

After the weigh-in, we returned to the car park for the trophy and prize presentations, kindly provided by the Club and CRT. A huge thank you to John Ellis and the CRT team, all the parents for their taxi services, our Luton coaches and volunteers, and coach Sue Galloway from Northampton for helping run the event so professionally.

Next week, many of these young anglers will be heading to Shropshire for the Daiwa Celebration event — we wish them every success and hope to see them back on our waters next year!

Grand Union South - Junior Championship

2025 John Morris Memorial Match – Biddenham

Last Sunday 5th October the annual match in memory of former club secretary John Morris took place at Biddenham. The day dawned fine with a gentle breeze after the heavy winds of the day before. Although the wind increased and became quite gusty again by midday, the threatened rain didn’t materialise, and the day ended fine. The river at Biddenham looked in great condition with colour and gentle flow, and the trees held a lovely autumn hue—a huge contrast to last year when everything was in flood and the car park was underwater, preventing the match from being fished!

We had a super turnout of 21 booked to fish, including one of the Club’s Junior members, so the match was split into A & B sections.

A Section

Winner Richard Gibbs opted to fish the pole with a 7m whip as a backup. He fished a 2grm flat float at 11 metres with two maggots on a size 16 hook, feeding hemp and red maggot. He had a net roach first trot down and continued inching the float through the swim—challenging in the gusting wind—to take more roach, chub and perch. After a couple of hours, bites slowed, so he scaled down the hooklength and swapped to a size 18 hook with two pinkies, which brought more bites and fish until the end. Richard finished with a fine mixed net for 7lb 2oz.

Danny Worth took second, catching most of his fish at 13 metres using double red maggot over groundbait, alternating to a 6m line on worm throughout the day to end with 4lb 15oz.

Third on A was Keith Ward, fishing a swim he wasn’t keen on! Keith fished at 14.5 metres using groundbait laced with caster, hemp and dead maggot, with caster and red maggot on the hook. He took a lovely mixed bag for 4lb 11oz.

B Section

Winner Miles Tommey fished the pole at 10 metres over a bed of groundbait laced with pinkie, with big red maggot on the hook. He took a bag of mainly roach with a few small chub and perch to end with 5lb 0oz.

Second was Dave Whillock, who caught perch to 1.5lb on red maggot over chopped worm close in. He also had three roach on bread punch and a few chublets on red maggot at 11 metres for 4lb 2oz 8drm.

Third place went to Pete Smith, edged into third by just 8 dram, ending with a creditable 4lb 2oz.

A very well done should also be recorded to Junior Jack O’Brien, fresh from his terrific result in the Division 2 National last weekend where he weighed 4 kilo 200 gram, and recorded 3lb 14oz from B section.

Richard Gibbs was absolutely made up to win the match in memory of John, who is still missed by us all. The trophy was presented by Chairman Fergal O’Kane, and Richard said it’s great that the Club continues to mark his memory with this annual match, which raised £210.00 for John’s chosen charity, Groundwork.

Thanks must go to the guys who went to Biddenham on Saturday to prepare the swims, and all those who helped with the organisation and weigh-in on the day—you know who you are.

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Results – A Section

Richard Gibbs – 7lb 0oz

Danny Worth – 4lb 15oz

Keith Ward – 4lb 11oz

Results – B Section

Myles Tommey – 5lb 0oz

Dave Whillock – 4lb 2oz 8drm

Pete Smith – 4lb 2oz

Overall Results – Top 7

Richard Gibbs – 7lb 0oz

Myles Tommey – 5lb 0oz

Danny Worth – 4lb 15oz

Keith Ward – 4lb 11oz

Bob Burdiak – 4lb 8oz 2drm

Dave Whillock – 4lb 2oz

Pete Smith – 4lb 2oz

Jack O’Brien (Junior) – 3lb 14oz

John Morris Memorial Match

Match Report from the 5th and 6th rounds of the 2025 Sunday Series.

ROUND 5

Round 5 of the LAC Sunday Summer Series took place on the River Ouse at Lavendon on 17th August 2025.

12 anglers took part in the match which had been eagerly awaited due to the 2024 fixture having to be called off due to storms. This time the sunshine prevailed but unfortunately the fishing was tough for most.

Winner on the day was Myles Tommey on peg 6, by the outflow. Myles fished the feeder with what he said was a secret bait. It clearly worked as a large bream followed up with a few decent skimmers was enough to take an easy win with 10lb 14ozs 12drms. The picture shows Myles cradling his bream. The observant amongst you will notice Myles is a bit wet. In all the excitement to weigh in, Myles decided to 'throw himself' into the river...

Sean Leatherland continued his good form to finish 2nd with 4lb 8 ozs 8 drms from Peg 1. Sean fed pinkie and maggot over groundbait and caught mostly small roach fishing a pole at 11metres.

In third place was Chris Howard on peg 8 with 2lb. Realising the fishing was tough, Chris changed tactics and targeted the bleak. a good idea and the 3rd place was enough for a section win to keep him top of the overall standings going into Round 6.

ROUND 6

Round 6 of the 2025 Summer Sunday Series was on the Grand Union Canal at Town South.

12 Anglers turned out for this match which, for the first half, was fished in very wet conditions but finished in wonderful sunshine.

Winner on the day was Chris Howard. Chris drew end peg 12 and fish breadpunch down the track to catch bream for a winning weight of 10lb 14ozs. The win means that Chris is the Overall leader going into the final 2 rounds.

Myles Tommey followed up his win in the previous round with 2nd off peg 9 on the outfall. Fishing pole across to the overhanging tree, Myles had a mixed bag of fish for 5lb 11ozs 4 drms.

Dave Abbott was on the next peg to Myles and fishing a similar style caught 5lb 9ozs including a lovely large hybrid which gave Dave a good battle on light tackle.

NEXT ROUND......

Round 7 will be on 19th October on the River Ouse at Eaton Ford. The draw at 8.30am. £2.00 peg fee and £5.00 optional pools, fish 10am till 3pm. There are 8 matches in the Sunday Series and the best 5 section results from eight count for the final league placings (one of which must be a river match)

For anyone thinking of joining in with the friendly matches, they are open to club members and if you are joining us for the first time can we ask that you message us so we know you are coming before turning up. You will be asked to produce your Club book at first appearance, so please have it with you and you are very welcome.

LAC Sunday Series

Round 5 Result - LAC Sunday Series

Round 6 Result - LAC Sunday Series

Overall League Positions - LAC Sunday Series

Wednesday 8th October – River Nene, Ringstead

This week 13 made the trip on a dark drizzly morning to fish the Nene at Ringstead, made possible by the generosity of Wellingborough A/C. This is a lovely piece of river with good access and parking with no long walks, known for its decent fishing, particularly for roach.

After the early start from Luton, some of us met at McDonalds at Raunds for breakfast, while others opted to go straight to the venue. The drizzle cleared during breakfast and by the time we got to the venue at 7:45 it had cleared, leaving a fine day. The water temperature was measured at 14°C, and the river had flow and colour. We had one well-behaved boat pass upriver during our match.

Simon Foulkes, who took first place, set about fishing two lines at the off — a small waggler over and a 4m whip. He fed the whip line with pinches of hemp from the off and started fishing over with the waggler, feeding hemp and fishing double reds. After half an hour doing this and only a handful of small chublets and some weed problems, he decided to spend the rest of the match on the short whip line, feeding pinches of hemp every cast with walnut-sized balls of groundbait every 15–20 minutes. This managed to keep roach, rudd, perch, dace and a random net skimmer coming for the rest of the match, Simon finishing with 4lb 15oz.

Bart Bonito was plagued by weed from the off and could hardly get more than a foot of depth whilst running his float through the swim. Bart switched to using a waggler and whip on the inside and caught on hemp and maggot close in. Like many of the anglers, Bart was troubled by pike and had several of his fish taken on the way in but still finished with a creditable 4lb 14oz to take second.

Richard Gibbs arrived at his peg and was disappointed to see how shallow and clear the water was. He plumbed up with a 1.5grm float rig and found the deepest water to be four and a half feet close in. Richard fed hemp and red maggot and hooked a stamp roach first run down the nearside, which resulted in a 5-minute battle with Mr Pike and a lost hook length. After that, he continued to take small roach, chublets and perch until the next pike attack — which he won. One all! Bites were a bit spasmodic, but Richard managed to keep a few fish coming by swapping between the 1.5grm rig and 7m whip, despite four more pike attacks! Richard had two pike around 6 to 7lbs sat at the end of his keepnet for the rest of the day. He used red maggot, fluoro maggot and pinkie during the day. Richard said it was a very enjoyable day despite Mr Pike taking the honours 5–1, and he finished with 4lb 5oz to take third.

Dave Ridley took fourth, fishing with a 4m whip using pinkie and red maggots with no groundbait. He caught steadily all day, fishing off the bottom to avoid the weeds and catching bleak and chublets at 2ft deep, with perch and roach at 4ft, weighing 4lb 4oz.

Luckiest angler on the day was Dennis Hunt, who lost a pole top 2 when it fell off (don’t ask). Fortunately, instead of sinking as normal, it floated — and Terry Vickers very kindly managed to cast his waggler over it, snag it and retrieve it. Lucky or what!

Many thanks as usual to all who helped with the admin and weigh-in this week — we couldn’t manage without everyone mucking in where they can.

Results

1st Simon Foulkes 5lb 15oz

2nd Bart Bonito 5lb 14oz

3rd Richard Gibbs 4lb 5oz

4th Dave Ridley 4lb 4oz

5th Andy Frankum 4lb 3oz

6th Dennis Hunt 2lb 4oz

7th Dave Abbott 2lb 3oz

8th Graham Stringer & Barry Roper 1lb 15oz

9th Ray Burton 1lb 8oz

10th Terry Vickers & Tony Hickmott 1lb 4oz

Next Match

Wednesday 15th October – Top Lake, Cublington

Draw at 8:30am at the venue

Fish 10:00am – 3:00pm

£5.00 optional pools + £1.00 Luton pegging fee + the fishery peg fee.

If you're thinking of joining us for the first time, please message us in advance so we know you're coming — this helps us manage the pegging. Don’t forget to bring your club membership book, as it must be shown on your first appearance.

Ringstead River Nene

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Tight Lines

Dave M

Luton AC

Luton Angling Club - Weekly News, Information and Catch Report Roundup - Week Ending 12th October 2025