Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 29th March 2026

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

Membership Renewals(From 1st April 2026)

Following our AGM this week we can now announce the membership pricing for the 2026/27 membership year.

ADULT Membership £120.00.
SENIOR Membership £85.00.
DISABLED Membership £85.00.
JUNIOR NIGHT Membership £85.00.
JUNIOR (Kingfisher) [No Night Fishing] £12.00.
THIRD ROD UPGRADE +£60.00 in addition to pricing above.

Our renewal system will open on 1st April 2026 and all existing members have priority renewal until 30th April. On the 1st of May any un-renewed membership will be made available to new members. Renew early to avoid missing out!

New Members (from 1st May 2026)

Anyone who has registered their interest will be contacted on the 1st of May when available memberships go on sale - Please note all new memberships are strictly first come first served and having registered your interest does NOT guarantee you a membership - Be quick when they go on sale as numbers are limited and they are in demand.

We will not be selling via the tackle shops again this year due to demand however please do support your local tackle shop.

South Lagoon - Wyboston

Gary Murray Brooks took this stunning picture of the sunrise at South Lagoon it was taken at 5:30am from Peg 1 a couple of weeks ago.

Sunrise at South Lagoon by Gary Murray Brooks

North House Lake

A superb common carp caught at Dawn this weekend by Daniel Keefe. He said that Brian the bailiff recognised this fish as “Johns Common" and its weight was 29lb

Daniel Keefe "Johns Common" North House Lake

Bait Boats at North House Lake.

It has been agreed to allow the use of bait boats at North House Lake for a Trial Period from the start of the 2026/27 season, provided there is no misuse or any issues caused this will be made permanent, please be sensible in their use and be respectful of other anglers.

Beckerings Reservoir

Carlo Managed 2 mirrors on a night session on the 27th the biggest being 22.4lb they were caught on Mad baits Nutz

Carlo Borromeo - Beckerings Reservoir

Carlo Borromeo - Beckerings Reservoir

Damien Fitzpatrick did a 48 hour session on Beckerings on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, he was trying some new bait out. He had no luck the first night and he thought at some points that his bivvy might be blown away in the storm, luckily it wasn't! He decided to move to a new spot first thing in the morning and what a good decision that turned out to be as he ended up beating his personal best and landing 3 carp and 4 bream, first came a 26lb 4oz mirror then a 29lb 2oz Mirror which is his new PB

Damien Fitzpatrick - Beckerings Reservoir

Damien Fitzpatrick - Beckerings Reservoir

Two new Junior Club Records

Junior member Nathaniel Pantazi stole the show during the presentation of the awards at the AGM. His 5lb Chub from the Ouse at Wyboston is a new Junior Club Record along with an Eel he had from South Lagoon. He was also awarded specimen awards for a 28lb 9oz Common Carp from South Lagoon. Nathaniel is turning into a skilled young angler, his dad Kletos was also a Junior record holder between 1991 and 2022.

Nathaniel - Junior Club Record

If you catch a fish that meets the minimum weights needed for our specimen awards its well worth submitting a claim. We also know many of our club records have been beaten over the years but unfortunately these are seldom officially claimed. You can find details on how to claim a club record or specimen award in your membership book.

Match Report Three Locks 25th March 2026

Well, what a change a week can bring! After the warmest day of the year last week, we got a hairy day on the bank this Wednesday with all the seasons in one go.

Following a change in the weather and a cold night, we had the mad March winds gusting up to 40 mph at times, extremely cold periods with dark overcast and hailstones and periods where the sun shone which felt much warmer and gave welcome relief.

When the guys pegged below the lock tried to return to the car park, they found the way blocked by a huge tree which had come down across the towpath.

The tree was on the bank of the small stream that runs under the road and into the canal just before the bend, narrowly missing a wide beam Canal boat. The stream has just been dredged with the ground scraped to clean the local area. The tree was very rotten at ground level which is obviously why it fell.

Our Guys had to manhandle their gear and make their way through the wreckage, helping each other to get back to the car park. We had phoned CRT who attended quickly and were on site before the last angler had cleared the obstacle.

There were a very large number of boats moored in the area (possibly seeking shelter from the winds) which meant we could only get 7 pegs on the upper and the remaining 8 on the lower section. The water temperature was measured at 10 C.

Given the weather it really wasn’t too much of a surprise that the fishing was extremely challenging, and we had several DNW this week especially below the Lock where the wind just about counteracted the tow on the water, and Colin Holmes managed to take the only decent fish in this section, a 2lb 4oz Bream.

Above the lock was more sheltered and we did find some fish, but holding a pole was extremely challenging making long pole fishing very awkward.

Tim Watts our winner chose to use a waggler float on rod and line over. Tim found the presentation was not ideal but on a hard day this approach coupled with heavier floats than normal on a short pole setup seemed to work, and Tim weighed in 2lb 8oz

Second above was Chris Howard with 2lb 4oz. Due to the weather Chris stayed fishing down the track. Using punch bread resulted in tiny Roach giving him lots of bites which were difficult to hook, but even if you hooked one, they fell off due to the wind. Chris tried to feed them off with regular balls of liquidised bread and hemp fishing fluro pinkie, which seemed to work as he then caught a slightly better stamp of fish.

Third above was Sean Leatherland with 1lb 10oz. Sean caught most of his on Punch on a line at 11 meters. When bites dried up he used squatt and pinkie on the hook, switching between the Punch and pinkie to keep bites coming. Sean had a mixed bag of roach perch and gudgeon

Special thanks to Ray Burton for doing the admin with pools and peg fees and Barry Roper for pegging this week, and all who helped with the weigh in

Results

1st Tim Watts 2lb 8oz

2nd (Joint) Colin Holmes & Chris Howard 2lb 4oz

4th Sean Leatherland 1lb 10oz

5th Pete Mills 1lb 7oz

6th Dennis Hunt 1lb 2oz

7th Keith Ward 0lb 0oz 4drm

DNW Barry Roper, Dave Ridley, Dudley Frankland, Les Burton,

Ray Burton, Simon Faulkes. Terry Vickers and Tony Hickmott.

Our next match is Wednesday 1st April and is at Westbrook Mere, courtesy of Boxmoor Angling Society when we hope the weather better!

Meet in the Car park at the venue promptly for an 8.30 draw as usual. £5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 Luton pegging fee, Fish 10.00am – 3.00pm

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.

Wednesday Match at Three Locks

That's all for this week, Please remember to renew your membership if you are an existing member and if you are interested in becoming a new member register your details via the form on the club website.

Tight Lines until next week

Dave

Luton Angling Club

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 22nd March 2026

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

Luton AC Annual General Meeting
Don't forget the club’s Annual General Meeting will take place this Thursday 26th March 2026 at Stopsley Working Men’s Club, 3 Putteridge Road, Luton, LU2 8HG. The venue provides free parking and a licensed bar. Members must bring their membership book in order to vote.

Beckerings Reservoir

Rod Gladston had this nice Beckerings Common during a 24hr session with Grandsons Charlie and Harry. Charlie had a lovely Mirror and a Bream.It was a freezing cold night but an enjoyable session.

Rod Gladston - Beckerings Common

Carlo had 4 Carp in freezing temperatures on Friday night with Mad Baits doing the business.

Carlo - Beckerings Reservoir

Carlo - Beckerings Reservoir

The bailiffs report that a several carp, along with Bream and Roach have been caught this week.

North House Lake

Martin Scholes did a night on Friday the 20th. His first run came just after 8pm but it came off just as he was going to pick the net up, he did see the fish which was a Tench covered in weed then at 10pm he had his next run and it was a nice 22lb 10oz Mirror which was taken on a mad baits wicked white pop up and the feed was wicked whites boilies and crushed boilies and corn.

Martin Scholes - North House Lake

Martin Scholes - North House Lake

Coaching Update

This weekend saw the final indoor winter coaching session at Bushmead where we practised our long pole potting skills and learnt about Helicopter rigs for ledgering, using bombs and groundbait feeders. We also signed up the CRT Tracking books to reflect the current progress of our students.

We were happy to sell a great trolley at a knockdown price to one of our young anglers and give away a seatbox and accessories and a pole which had been donated to two of our very keen girls.

Molly and Isla Rose were so excited they immediately wanted to arrange a session to try their new tackle out, so an impromptu coaching session at Slapton was arranged for Sunday Morning

Two of our Coaches Mark Brooks and Roger Baker met the girls and their families on the bank and despite the cold overnight temperatures it was a lovely spring morning when the mist lifted, and both girls enjoyed using their new gear. The girls said it took a while for the fish to wake up but they had enjoyed the morning in the sunshine catching a few fish, including some Gudgeon.

Well done all.

Coaching at Slapton

Coaching at Slapton

Coaching at Slapton

Last Indoor Coaching Session at Bushmead

Last Indoor Coaching Session at Bushmead

Last Indoor Coaching Session at Bushmead

Wednesday Match Report

This week the group fished an away venue - Jacks Lake, at Twin Lakes which is located next to our River stretch at Biddenham.

The morning dawned bright and clear, and the sun in the sky gave some warmth after a cold night, and the temperature continued to rise steadily through the day producing the warmest day of the year so far.

There were 16 of us and we were glad to be out fishing on the lovely spring day, and it was reallly nice to see Malcolm Ogden out and fishing with us again for the first time this year.

Possibly due to the very cold night on Tuesday and a cloudless blue sky with bright sun, the fish seemed a little reluctant to join in the fun, but those fishing the match enjoyed what turned out to be a very hard day.

Taking the honours this week was Dave Whillock, who fished a method feeder with a mini wafter on a size 14 hook about 2–3ft away from the island. Dave weighed in 22lb 10oz.

Second place was taken by Sean Leatherland who fished his pole at 6 metres, and took four Barbel, a Tench and a Carp using double red maggot over groundbait. Sean was also loose feeding pellet and red maggot, and said he had three distinct 15‑minute feeding spells in which he took his fish.

This week we had two anglers in a dead heat for third, Graham Stringer and Simon Faulkes. Simon said he tried an awful lot of things to no avail and then decided to concentrate fishing down the edge, having at last found a method that produced bites! In the last 2 hours he took 6 fish on single red maggot ending with 19lb 1oz

Graham started off at the bottom of the near shelf with 2 red maggots on a 14 hook which produced 2 Carp and a very small Tench for about 4lb. He then decided to feed down both margins with worm which produced 2 very nice Tench. He then changed again and tried three discs of bread on the hook which produced two real lumps of Carp. Unfortunately, he lost one at the net when the 6lb hook length broke and finished level with Simon on 19lb 1oz, rueing what might have been!

Special thanks to Tony Hickmott for doing the admin with pools and peg fees this week and the draw, and all who helped with the weigh‑in.

Results

1st Dave Whillock 22lb 10oz

2nd Sean Leatherland 19lb 11oz

3rd (Joint) Graham Stringer & Simon Faulkes 19lb 1oz

5th Mark Sessions 17lb 2oz

6th Richard Gibbs 14lb 4oz

7th Terry Vickers 12lb 12oz

8th Malcolm Ogden 11lb 5oz

9th Andy Frankum 10lb 4oz

10th Keith Ward 9lb 3oz

11th Les Burton 8lb 10oz

12th Dave Ridley 6lb 12oz

13th Tony Hickmott 6lb 3oz

14th Colin Holmes 6lb 2oz

15th Richard Darbon 5lb 13oz

16th Pete Smith 0lb 10oz

Our next match is Wednesday 25th March and is at Three Locks when we hope the weather is again kind.

Meet in the car park at the venue promptly for an 8.30 draw as usual. £5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 Luton pegging fee. Fish 10.00am – 3.00pm.

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.

Wednesday Match at Twinlakes

Thanks for reading. Send in your catch reports and pictures through our social channels or website and we’ll include them next week.

Tight lines!

Dave M

Luton Angling Club

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 15th March 2026

Here is this weeks news, information and catch report round up from Luton Angling Club.With the river close season now upon us, many will be reflecting on what has been a challenging river campaign.

Constant flooding made most river stretches unfishable for long spells, and river fishing opportunities were few and far between and the lack of catch reports certainly reflected that.

Thankfully, all our still waters remain open year‑round and will continue to offer reliable sport as spring approaches.

Luton AC Annual General Meeting
Don't forget the club’s Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday 26th March 2026 at Stopsley Working Men’s Club, 3 Putteridge Road, Luton, LU2 8HG. The venue provides free parking and a licensed bar. Members must bring their membership book in order to vote.

South Lagoon

Kletos landed two Pike on South Lagoon this week — a lively 7lb fish and then a superb 18lb 2oz specimen, his biggest of the season so far. The larger fish was in excellent condition, broad across the shoulders and sporting a serious set of teeth, as the photos make clear. A proper South Lagoon predator and a well‑earned highlight for his campaign.

Kletos - South Lagoon Pike

Kletos - South Lagoon Pike

North House Lake

Rod Gladston was only an hour and half into a 24 hour stay at North House Lake recently and this 25lb Common came to play - it was caught on a yellow wafter..

Rod Gladston - North House Lake

Martin Scholes did another night at North House, He caught 2 commons 21lb 2oz and a 19lb 5oz over mad baits wicked whites and corn with a trimmed down 16mm wicked white pop up.

Martin Scholes - North House Lake

Beckerings Reservoir

Jason Mash brought a welcome end to his run of blanks this week catching two fish, the better of the two being a fine, hard‑fighting Common. The fish showed plenty of spirit on the way to the net — “it fought like a tiger” in Jason’s words — and arrived just as he was contemplating packing away, the rod suddenly screaming off to signal its arrival. A well‑earned capture and a pleasing return to form on the lake for Jason.

Jason Mash - Beckerings Common

Club Thanks Volunteers for Recent Work

Our club is very lucky to have a great team of volunteers that are always willing to help in times of need. Thursday was such a case, after we were informed that a tree had fallen in our car park at Slapton, on the Grand Union canal, impeding the access to most of the car park and an adjacent property.

Bob Burdiak, one of our two licenced chainsaw operators, altered his plans for the morning and attended to the situation. Thank you Bob, for everything you do for us, it's much appreciated.

Slapton Car Park - Before

Slapton Car Park - After

Andy Peirson visited Beckerings again,and with the club's permission, Filled some more of the potholes along the track with hardcore. Thank you again for your help Andy, it's much appreciated.

Andy Peirson - Beckerings

Also at Beckerings Bailiff Rob moved some of the cut branches from around the reservoir ready for chipping.

Wednesday Match Report 11th March 2026 - Biddenham

Despite the overnight rain on Tuesday night, making the ground a bit slippery, Wednesday morning dawned bright and clear, and the sun in the sky gave some warmth, although it did get much colder as the day went on as it clouded over and the wind picked up.

There were 18 of us and we were glad to be out fishing on this lovely spring day, and as this would be our last river outing of the 2025 / 26 season we were hopeful that we may find some fish. The venue looked great with an upstream wind, some colour and a good steady flow.It was good to see some who hadn’t managed to get out for some time back out with us again, although we still haven’t seen Malcolm Ogden so far this year, and everyone wishes him a speedy recovery.

Top slot this week went to Graham Stringer who started off with three balls of groundbait laced with red maggots and Fluro pinkies. Graham fed this mix through a pole pot at about 6 metres. As he was pegged under a tree he had to remove the bottom section of his whip. He ran his float through over the top of his groundbait at full depth.

Graham used mostly single red maggot on the hook with the odd change to a pinkie. Graham said it took about 2 hours before the roach turned up, but after that he caught steadily finishing the day with 4lb 2oz.

Second place was taken by Richard Gibbs who drew peg 4 and seeing that there was decent colour and flow decided to fish the pole. His swim was around 14ft deep at 11 metres, so he set up an 8grm Silverlight flat float to a 16's hook. After cupping in several balls of Sonubaits dark river groundbait he inched his rig through the swim and caught from the start.

Most fish were roach between 1 and 5 oz. with a few small chub. Richard caught steadily for a couple of hours on red and flouro maggot and pinkies. Richard had 50 fish and only 2 bleak!.

The gusting wind then started to make presentation difficult and together with Mr Pike appearing meant that I spent the last 3 hours scratching for bites. With the result being 3 nil to the Pike. Richard finished with 70 fish for 3lbs 14ozs.

Third was Colin Holmes who took a couple of decent fish early on a feeder setup which soon went dead and the rest using a float running through to finish with 3lb 8oz.

Dudley Frankland fished a 5mtr whip to hand to take 3lb 4oz using small balls of ground bait and maggot/ pinkie hook to finish fourth with 3lb 4oz.

Special thanks to Ray Burton for doing the admin with pools and peg fees, even the draw, and all who helped with the weigh in.

Results

1st Graham Stringer 4lb 2oz

2nd Richard Gibbs 3lb 14oz

3rd Colin Holmes 3lb 8oz

4th Dudley Frankland 3lb 4oz

5th Dave Whillock 2lb 15oz

6th Barry Roper 2lb 3oz

7th Mark Sessions 2lb 0oz

8th Keith Ward 1lb 11oz

9th Dennis Hunt 1lb 9oz

10th Pete Smith 0lb 11oz

11th Richard Darbon 0lb 7oz

12th Andy Frankum 0lb 4oz

13th Les Burton 3lb 8oz

14th Roger Baker 0lb 2oz

DNW Chris Howard, Dave Ridley, Terry Vickers & Tony Hickmott

Our next match is Wednesday 18th March and is at Twinlakes Biddenham when we hope the weather is again warm.

Meet in the Car park at the venue promptly for an 8.30 draw as usual. £5.00 optional pools plus the £2.00 Luton pegging fee, there is also the £10.00 fishery peg fee. 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.

Wednesday Match

Wednesday Match

Wednesday Match - Biddenham

Juniors back out on the Bank

It was great to see the weather turning milder and some of our younger Luton Anglers back on the bank. They spent a few hours fishing putting the skills they learned during the fun indoor classroom sessions we ran over the winter into practice, they have kindly sent in photos of some of their catches. Let’s hope the warmer weather continues and the fishing keeps improving as its great seeing their progress.

Juniors back out on the bank

Juniors back out on the bank

Thanks for reading. Send in your catch reports and pictures through our social channels or website and we’ll include them next week.

Tight lines!

Dave M

Luton Angling Club