Welcome to this week’s round-up of news, venue updates, and catch reports from across all Luton Angling Club waters week ending 23rd August 2026.
The weather has turned cooler this week, This meant that the closure in place at North House could be lifted as water temperatures have dropped to a safe level. That being said please do limit your bait use to maintain water quality.
The time during the closure wasn't wasted as the venue bailiffs used the opportunity to carry out some much needed maintenance around the lake.
Our waters are performing well with a number of good catches reported.
North House Lake
Kate Usher sent in these pictures of catches from North House Lake. a 21lb 4oz Common, 14lb 13oz Mirror and a decent Tench. All caught in the margin under a tree just a rod length out. Fishing Mad Baits compulsive yellow peril wafter hook bait with Nutz Plus boilies
Jamie Lunniss did a quick over nighter on North House Lake. He had one of the stockies a stunning little Mirror at 10lb 4oz and it put up a great little fight. Stiff boom rig with P fish pop up.
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| Kate Usher - North House Lake |
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| Kate Usher - North House Lake |
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| Kate Usher - North House Lake |
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| Jamie Lunniss - North House Lake |
Junior Alfie Ridge had a session on the lake this week and caught a nice Mirror at 17lb.
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| Alfie Ridge - North House Lake |
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| Paul Parkinson - North House Lake |
Gary Fisher sent in a report from a session on the 4th August he caught 3 and lost 2. One was a new PB mirror at 26.2lb.
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| Gary Fisher - North House Lake |
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| Gary Fisher - North House Lake |
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| Gary Fisher - North House Lake |
Jason Mash was keen to get back on North House after it reopened and he had this Mirror after switching from bottom baits to surface fishing. He did get a couple more takes off the top but lost them to hook pulls. When the floater fishing died off, he switched back to bottom baits, resulting in a small mirror. It will likely be his last session for 2 or 3 months as he's got a shoulder operation coming up - We hope you have a speedy recovery mate and look forward to seeing you back on the bank!
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| Jason Mash - North House Lake |
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| Jason Mash - North House Lake |
Beckerings Reservoir
Billy Phillips was back at Beckerings for an evening session with dad Declan. Weights ranged from 16lb to 22lb
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| Billy Phillips - Beckerings |
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| Billy Phillips - Beckerings |
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| Billy Phillips - Beckerings |
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| Billy Phillips - Beckerings |
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| Billy Phillips - Beckerings |
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| Billy Phillips - Beckerings |
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| Billy Phillips - Beckerings |
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| Billy Phillips - Beckerings |
Alfie Ridge has had a cracking few sessions recently on a session on Tuesday he was targeting the carp with his grandad, he ended up catching the largest Catfish in the lake weighing in at 70lb it took him quite a while to land. His mum really wants to thank the other anglers who helped him land, unhook,weigh and release it safely as it was far too big for him and Grandad to manage themselves especially with the very shallow water in the margins due to the extremely low water levels.
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| Alfie Ridge - Beckerings Catfish |
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| Alfie Ridge - Beckerings Catfish |
He also did an overnight session Saturday night and had 3 Mirrors which included a 17lb, 26lb and a new pb at 30lb 12oz.
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| Alfie Ridge - Beckerings |
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| Alfie Ridge - Beckerings |
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| Alfie Ridge - Beckerings |
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| Andy Perrin - 56lb Catfish - Beckerings |
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| Kieron - Beckerings |
Alan Batham sent in pictures of his recent catches, one a fraction over 30lb caught 20th July and the other just over 32lb caught on 17th August
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| Alan Batham - Beckerings |
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| Alan Batham - Beckerings |
Grand Union Canal
Lee Waring had a two hour session on the canal at Linslade , he had around 7lb of good sized Bream , Skimmers and Perch and a Tench, the first Tench he's caught from the canal in 60 years of angling and we don't often hear of them either.
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| Lee Waring - GUC Tench |
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| Lee Waring - GUC |
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| Lee Waring - GUC |
16th Aug 2026) saw the 5th round of the LAC Sunday Series take place on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton.
9 anglers took part and were grateful for the slight drop in temperature meaning a more comfortable days fishing on the bank.
Pegging was spread along the section to cater for the overground reeds along the stretch. The fishing was generally good and it was very close for the top 2 positions.
Winner on the day was Mr Consistent - Myles Tommey with 5lb 8ozs. Drawing peg 8, Myles started on the inside fishing maggot over groundbait catching small roach until the crayfish moved in. Myles had a few further perch close in and then switched to his 13m pole line where he caught skimmers and roach changing between worm and maggot hookbaits.
Less than 2ozs behind was Keith Ward in 2nd place. Keith drew peg 2 and started fishing the pole at 13m fishing casters and pinkier over groundbait where he picked up skimmers from the start. As things slowed, Keith swapped to his chopped worm line at 16m and picked up further skimmers and perch and then moved back to his 13m line and picked up more skimmers. Keith reported losing a large bream at the net in the final hour but his 5lb 6ozs 4drms was still enough for second.
In 3rd place was Pete Mills on peg 3 with 4lbs 4 drms. Pete started close in on breadpunch and caught small fish well for the first 30 mins and as things slowed he alternated between breadpunch, worm pieces and pinkies. Pete then swapped to his far bank line and caught a few more fish but his inside line was producing more bites so he returned to that and caught more fish in the last 2 hours on breadpunch.
Thanks to Keith, Dave and Myles for pegging the match and to Tracey for her super weighting in duties and maintaining the match result on Hotfishin.com
The 2026 Sunday Series will continue in September on the River Ouse at Lavendon. Originally planned for the 26th Sept, due to the club fishing the Div 2 National on the Saturday the same weekend an alternative date is being identified and will be communicated shortly. Draw 8:30am and fish 10am to 3pm.
This is a friendly league and anyone interested in joining, please let the organiser know. The matches are open to eligible 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.
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| Overall League Positions |
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| Round 5 - Result |
Match Report 19th August Drawn Pairs Wyboston
Wednesday this week saw us run one of our popular ‘Drawn Pairs’ events at Wyboston which attracted 18 entries, so we had 9 anglers fishing the lake and 9 fishing the river. We had done our draw for our pairs in advance, so anglers knew if they were on river or lake and could prepare their tackle and baits in advance.
It was great to see two of our friends out with us again recovering after recent spells in hospital and really enjoying being out fishing with us again.
The weather was kind, being much cooler than of late, and although the sky was slightly overcast the rain kept away. We did our respective draws at each venue and because this week we were pegging around anglers already fishing we drew for walk off order. Both venues fished very well with lots of weights over 5lb presented to the scales.
First on the Lagoon was Colin Holmes who had a plan to fish a float rod for skimmers on corn, but while setting up the person carping next to him caught a good bream so his plans immediately changed and he decided to fish a feeder. He started by putting 8 large feeders of bait out (He admits his accuracy was pants) at 8 wraps and put the method feeder out at 14 wraps. He also baited up float line. He waited 40 minutes on this line and had no indications, so he recast and the method and cracked off!
He put his short feeder out with 2 pieces of corn on the hook while he reset his Method feeder, and when the feeder was retrieved, he had nothing but corn skins, so he rebaited with 4 bits of corn on the hair and cast it back out. He had a couple of small tugs and struck thinking it was a small skimmer, but it wasn’t it was a big bream! A few rods length out it went broadside and took him into the lilies where he lost it (gave himself a few well-chosen words).
His feeder went back out with 4 bits of corn in a size 12 hook and he had two bream about 5lb each. After that it went a bit dead, but it picked up again later when he had more Skimmer on Corn and Maggot, to finish with 21lb 11oz.
Second man Simon Foulkes said after a slow first 30mins on his pole line he decided to introduce more groundbait laced with hemp and dead reds to see if the fish would respond, and they did catching, Simon then caught 2oz to 3oz skimmers consistently to the end of the match on either hemp or corn to end with 10lb 4oz.
Next in third came Paul Carr who set up 4 lines, a 3m whip, pole line on top 4 and at 13 metres, plus a feeder. Paul started on the whip for 15mins with no success, so he switched to top 4 line fishing pinkie before switching to double maggot on size 18 hook. He caught steadily for an hour and a half before this line died so went onto the 13 Metre line. Here he was only catching small fish so he decided the time shipping in and out didn’t warrant the stamp of fish and went back on top 4 line but switched from loose feeding to feeding small bits of ground bait via pole pot every 4–5 fish this worked better and caught steadily for rest of match ending with 98 fish. Paul caught mainly roach with some small skimmers, Dace, Rudd and bleak to weigh in 7lb 10oz.
On the river Barry Roper started off fishing just past the near bank cabbages, catching perch on chopped worm. When that died, he went out to 9m and caught roach steadily throughout the rest of match mainly on caster to weigh 7lb 4oz.
Mark Sessions fed hemp and corn and had a mixture of roach, rudd, small skimmers and an odd perch, all caught on the stick float half distance across the river at 4ft deep using red maggot and occasionally sweetcorn on the hook. Mark weighed in 5lb 12oz.
Dennis Hunt fished a small waggler over the cabbages close in over groundbait. Dennis who was loose feeding hemp and caster over the groundbait started with a caster on an 18 hook, catching roach and dace, which worked well until lunchtime when the fish switched off this bait. Trying hemp on the hook brought the fish back and the roach continued to come, Dennis ending with 5lb 5oz.
Daniel Carr the other half of the Lads and Dads duo set up two rigs one for bleak feeding a sloppier groundbait which I didn't use in the end and one 13ms out feeding a firmer groundbait with dead maggots and double pinkie on the hook. This worked well and is where he caught.
Daniel reported that two hours into the match as he was bringing a nice roach a pike probably about ten pounds came and took it dragging his elastic across the river. Unfortunately, it bit my hook length off as it managed to wiggle the hook deeper into its mouth.
Daniel said he was gutted about this, as even though it wouldn't have counted it would have been his PB pike and his first out of the river. Daniel ended with a good weight of 5lb 3oz.
There were reports of several good fish being reported as lost during this match both from the lake and the river, a couple were believed to have been nice Tench!
Many thanks to all who did the admin and weigh in, your help is invaluable.
Results for South Lagoon
1st Colin Holmes 21lb 11oz
2nd Simon Foulkes 10lb 4oz
3rd Paul Carr 7lb 10oz
4th Keith Ward
5th Richard Gibbs 5lb 14oz
6th Ray Burton 3lb 6oz
7th Terry Vickers 3lb 1oz
8th Tony Hickmott 2lb 9oz
9th Malcolm Ogden 1lb 11oz
Results for River
1st Barry Roper 7lb 4oz
2nd Mark Sessions 5lb 12oz
3rd Dennis Hunt 5lb 5oz
4th Daniel Carr 5lb 3oz
5th Jim Tookey & Graham Stringer 5lb 0oz
7th Dave Whillock 4lb 12oz
8th Andy Frankum 3lb 15oz
9th Richard Darbon 2lb 13oz
Top 4 Pairs Results Points / Weight
1st Pair 1 Simon Foulkes / Graham Stringer
2nd Pair 9 Paul Carr / Daniel Carr
3rd Pair 3 Barry Roper / Ray Burton
4th Pair 2 Richard Gibbs / Dennis Hunt
Our next match is Wednesday 26 August and is on Oaks Lake at Wold Farm Poddington, Fishery peg fee paid online in advance, meet for an 8.30 draw as usual, £5.00 optional pools, Fish 10.00am – 3.00 pm.
For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time you must message us, so we know you are coming before turning up. This will help us to manage the pegging of the venue.
Please bring your club membership book with you as you will be asked to produce it for your first appearance.
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| Wyboston - Drawn Pairs Match |
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| Wyboston - Drawn Pairs Match |
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| Wyboston - Drawn Pairs Match |
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| Wyboston - Drawn Pairs Match |
That's all we have this week, please keep your catch reports coming in, you can submit them via our social media pages or via the catch report section of the club website.
Tight Lines,
Dave M
Luton AC
