Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports

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

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

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.

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

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

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 7th April 2024

Here is all the latest news, information and catch reports from all Luton Angling Club waters for the week ending 7th April 2024.

Membership Renewals Update

Membership renewals were launched on 1st April, as we have for the last couple of years, 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.

Anyone who has renewed already will receive their book and key ready for 1st June and we hope to starts sending them out in the next few weeks. Please be patient as this is a mammoth task for our membership secretary

Beckerings Reservoir

Amer Jawad had another short but good session at Beckerings, 30lb plus of silvers all on the slider in just 3 hours.

Amer Jawad - Beckerings

Darren Savage had two mirror carp, along with a nice, but greedy 2lb 8oz Roach which he had on double boilie.

Darren Savage-Beckerings

Darren Savage-Beckerings

Grand Union Canal - Winter League - Ian Orbell

After taking part in all four rounds of our Winter League, Ian Orbell posted this report on the

Colmic Bait-Tech Northants

@colmicbaittechnorthants

facebook page.

On Sunday I fished the last round of the Luton Angling Club winter league. As much luck as angling ability, I managed to finish first by one point!

First round at White Bridge Leighton Buzzard. Drew a rubbish peg behind the houses. Managed to win my section with a bonus skimmer, and 30 tiny roach for 1lb 5oz.

Second round at Three Locks pub section. Drew picnic site. Picked up odd roach on punch, and squat, but knew I was falling behind at least two. Last 15 minutes put a worm on, and fished tight over. One bite 3lb bream. Up to second.

Third round was back at Three Locks, and drew on the boats. Freezing cold, and fishing was hard. Managed 25 roach for 9oz. Section win, and second in match.

Fourth round was at Globe Pub. Drew a good peg by the trees. Caught on punch at 5 meters first 20 minutes. Then I went to 13 meters, squats over groundbait. Caught roach, and skimmers steadily for two hours. Was also having odd look at 14 meters on worm caster line, and managed a 3lb bream. All lines went dead at 12.30. Couldn’t buy a bite. Fed another punch line at 13 meters, and caught another six roach that gave me just enough to win match, and league with 13lb 1oz.

Really well organized league, and look forward to fishing it again next year.

Been using Bait-Tech groundbait for first time.

Very impressed with Pro Natural Fine Lake Dark. Mixed up nicely, and the roach & skimmers seemed to love it on last round. My go to rig was 0.1 Colmic Frank.

Great little floats that you can shot down to a pimple, but bristles are easy to see.

Ian Orbell - Winter League

Ian Orbell - Winter League

Let’s Fish Saturday April 6th Town South Leighton Buzzard

Yesterday the Luton Coaching Team delivered our first CRT ‘Lets Fish of the year in Leighton Buzzard. The event was fully booked and very successful with all the slots taken, the only disappointment being the family who had booked the last one-hour slots turned out to be ‘No Shows’ , which was extremely disappointing.

While the day was warm the conditions were certainly challenging both for the coaches and those attending due to the very strong gusty winds making fishing conditions difficult.

We did however manage to find some welcome shelter behind some of the moored boats, and everyone who came to fish with us caught some fish )including some of the parents that wanted a go) and all of them really enjoyed themselves.

We have had a couple of those who came provide some great feedback and one of them commented "We had such a great time learning some of the basics of fishing. My son is really excited to get started and learn some more"

So we have high hopes they might join our Luton Kingfisher Junior section soon.

Let's Fish 6.4.2024

Wednesday Match Report 3rd April 24

Grand Union Canal - Three Locks Lower

It was back on the Canal this week on the section below Three Locks. It was a mild morning as we met in the car park, and the day started bright, with a breeze, but there were a couple of rain showers with heavier wind and overcast, before the wind dropped and the day brightened again. However, after yet another night of rain the Canal was a murky brown colour.

We had several boats through the day as would be expected following the Easter Holiday. Checking the water temperature revealed it had now risen to 11.5 C. It turned out a strange day when normal banker swims failed to produce and the nearer to the flight you were pegged the better the fishing.

Bart Bonito on peg 1 took the honours this week, ending with 13lb 8oz, he opted to fish five lines, two across in the shallow water at 14.5 metres, one with groundbait and pinkies the other chop worm, one at 11.5 metres using groundbait and pinkie with the same at 6m.

He made a slow start on the inside and took six skimmer bream before this line died. Deciding to go across on the worm line he took a bigger skimmer, He rotated lines throughout the day, catching mainly on pinkie, except for the bigger fish which were all caught on worm. The swims were fed sparingly, and Bart only fed ¾ kilo groundbait all day.

Dudley Frankland took second, with 5lb 15oz, fishing three lines, one at 10 o’clock, a chop worm line, one at the bottom of the far shelf with groundbait and pinkies , and another tight over to a boat at 13.5 metres using chop worm & caster. Dudley rotated the lines through the day.

Barry Roper in third caught a few skimmers and roach early on at 4 metres, all on pinkie. He then went out to 11 metres near to the boats and caught a few more before the bites slowed up and he only had two fish in the last three hours ending with 2lb 6oz

Colin McBeth in fourth position started by feeding bread short and groundbait with squatt and caster at bottom of far shelf. Getting no bites no bites on either line. After an hour he topped up far shelf with groundbait and chopped worm and had a small perch. He rotated the three lines for next two hours and picked up a small skimmer and a nice perch at around 1pm but unfortunately took nothing else after that weighing 13oz.

Perhaps the unluckiest man out yesterday was Roger Baker who pegged in a difficult area managed to catch a roach of about 3oz. Roger retrieved his net for the weigh in and the fish had disappeared! When the net was examined, we found a small hole due to recent rodent damage, so the fish had done a Houdini and escaped!

Poor Roger was devastated! Had it not been for this mishap and the estimated weight been correct Roger would have finished about 8th!

Results

1st Bart Bonito 13lb 8oz

2nd Dudley Frankland 5lb 15oz

3rd Barry Roper 2lb 6oz

4th Colin McBeth 0lb 13oz

5th Dennis Hunt 0lb 11oz

6th Dave Ridley 0lb 4oz 8drm

7th Sean Leatherland 0lb 4oz

8th Steve Lathwell 0lb 3oz

9th Les Burton 0oz 8drm

10th Adrian Smith 0lb 0oz 4drm

DNW Malcolm Ogden, Roger Baker, Chris Howard, Tony Hickmott

Our next Match is on Wednesday 10th April and is at Beckerings. Due to the number of anglers fishing this Wednesday match, the venue will be closed to those not taking part in the match until 5pm on Wednesday and no night bookings will be taken for Tuesday night.

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, next week will be extremely popular and 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.

Wednesday Match

Wednesday Match