Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports

Welcome to this week’s round-up of news, venue updates, and catch reports from across all Luton Angling Club waters week ending 16th August 2026.

North House Lake Update

​While the lake remains closed, the bailiffs have been carrying out essential maintenance. We have also been running the pump to help bring oxygen levels back up.

​The fishery will stay closed for the next few days. We’ll post another update here as soon as it is ready to reopen. 

Thank you for your patience.

Before the closure, Chris Gallagher and Gav Newman had a great session at North House Lake recently. Chris had 5 fish and Gav had 6 and each of them had a 20lber.
All caught on the krill bottom baits with a corn topper and scent from hell pop ups. They'll definitely be back for more. 
North House Lake
North House Lake
North House Lake
North House Lake
North House Lake
North House Lake
North House Lake
North House Lake
North House Lake
Beckerings Reservoir
Billy Phillips sent in pictures of his recent catches from Beckerings.
Billy Phillips - Beckerings
Billy Phillips - Beckerings
Max Miller and his Dad Rob had an amazing overnight session on Beckerings on Friday. They set up in peg 13 and 14 and benefitted from the farmer turning the pump on and adding some water to the reservoir from the reserve lagoon. They had a total of 22 bites, and landed 18 carp between them with weights up to 26lb, they had no sleep.  An unforgettable session topped off by Max getting his PB with a 26lb fish his younger brother caught last month! 
Max Miller - Beckerings
Max Miller - Beckerings
Max Miller - Beckerings
Max Miller - Beckerings
Max Miller - Beckerings
Max Miller - Beckerings
Rob Miller - Beckerings
Rob Miller - Beckerings
Rob Miller - Beckerings
Rob Miller - Beckerings
GUC Summer Evening Match series
Final round 13th August 2026
This Wednesday was the final round of our new GUC Summer Evening series. It turned out to be an extremely hot day with temperatures peaking at over 35C. Our Draw in the Globe car park was at 4pm and we fished 3 hours from 5:15 to 8:15 as we needed to weigh in before it got too dark!
We fished the upside of the Globe on the ‘Soldier Blue straight’, which despite the longish walk was fortunately well shaded from the worst of the sun and comparatively cool. This match was set to be the decider for the series, as currently the league after the 4 previous rounds was extremely tight at the top.
The Canal water is definitely clearing in the hot weather, and the water temperature yesterday afternoon was approaching 20C. Although the cutting was cooler, the shade in the cutting brought other issues, the dappled light making spotting bites difficult for some and hastening the onset of darkness.
Our individual winner yesterday was Tim Watts, who was fortunate to draw one of the end pegs, which looked nice with reeds on the far bank, but initially had little shade.
Tim set up for Skimmers, but only had two small Perch first half hour, with very few bites. After an hour and a half, he only had about 12oz in his net, but he stuck at it.
When the sun eventually dropped the swim got more shaded water and this led to bites. Tim had Skimmers now over his feed, and had twelve 3–8oz fish and 3 better ones of about 12oz followed with a 2lb one last cast, ending with 6lb 8oz.
Second place was taken by Chris Howard, who initially tried punch over liquidised bread, which didn’t work, so he switched to pinkie on the hook. Chris took his fish by rotating 4 lines, 2 nearside and 2 over, ending with 4lb 0oz.
Following our match many retired to the Globe for a well‑deserved drink to toast Chris’ victory before setting off home.
The results of last night’s heat were:
1st Tim Watts 6lb 8oz  
2nd Chris Howard 4lb 0oz  
3rd Mark Sessions
4th Colin Holmes 2lb 0oz  
5th Dudley Frankland 1lb 14oz  
6th Pete Mills 1lb 12oz  
7th Sean Leatherland 1lb 9oz  
8th Dennis Hunt 1lb 2oz
The final league placings this year were:
1st Chris Howard with 58 points claiming the championship
2nd Dudley Frankland, runner‑up with 54 points
3rd Mark Sessions 52 points
4th Sean Leatherland 51 points
5th Pete Mills 51 points
6th Tim Watts 39 points
7th Colin Macbeth 19 points
8th Colin Holmes 17 points
9th Paul Carr 16 points
10th Richard Darbon 16 points
11th Dylan Carr 15 points
12th Daniel Carr 14 points
13th Dennis Hunt 13 points
Well done Chris and congratulations to Dudley and Mark Sessions for second and third place. This was the first year for this event, and we learnt a lot which will be useful experience when we run it again next year. 
LAC Summer Evening Series
LAC Summer Evening Series
Safety Warning! - Bees and Wasps nests
A reminder that wasps and bees frequently build nests in overgrown vegetation, hollow tree roots, earth banks and under wooden platforms along the water's edge.
Please check carefully when choosing where to fish to avoid disturbing any nests and getting stung.
We have been advised by a member there is a wasps nest around Peg 10 at Beckerings as he was attacked and stung when returning a fish.
Bees and Wasps Nests - Take Care!

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

Welcome to this week’s round-up of news, venue updates, and catch reports from across all Luton Angling Club waters week ending 9th August 2026.

Another warm and settled week across Bedfordshire, with only the lightest touch of rain here and there. Most anglers enjoyed dry banks and comfortable conditions, although the midweek match group did get caught out by an unexpected shower — almost certainly due to the attendance of Dennis Hunt, whose long‑standing reputation for summoning rain remains as reliable as ever.

There haven't been a huge number of catch reports this week so please do send them in if you get out fishing.

South Lagoon

Amer Jawad had a short two and half hour session on Monday evening which was his first time on the bank since May). He had 3 nice bream and a skimmer with plenty of bites from skimmers too.

Amer Jawad - South Lagoon

Beckerings Reservoir

Declan Phillips and his son Billy have been fishing Beckerings over the last few weeks and have had some great sessions and sent in multiple pictures from across their sessions. Here are a selection of their catches

Beckerings Reservoir

Kieron had a 14.7lb Ghosty looking Carp out of Beckerings Sunday evening on a little short evening session with his partner before work tomorrow. He tried out a new bait and it paid off just as they were about to pack up.

Beckerings Reservoir

Roy Blacker and his pal Adam did 24hrs at Beckerings, It was Adam’s first session at the reservoir and he was mainly targeting the cats but did switch one rod for a few hours for carp and managed 2 nice commons 16lb and 17lb. For Roy after 5 bream in a row he switched tactics and managed to land 6 Carp with the biggest being 22.6lb and the smallest 13lb, no cats on this occasion but Adam is now on a mission to catch one so watch this space.

Beckerings Reservoir

Biddenham - River Ouse

Steve and Bill had their first visit to Biddenham. They fished Pegs 7 & 8 and managed a few fish Roach,Perch, Skimmers and Jack Pike caught on maggots and corn down the margins but they were hindered by scum on the surface.

Biddenham - River Ouse

Report from the 4th Round of the 2026 Sunday Series

Sunday 19th July 2026 staged the 4th round of the Sunday Series on the River Gt Ouse at Biddenham.  A lovely venue, with good parking and easy access to the river.   Thanks go to the club bailiffs for looking after this venue so well.

11 anglers took part and once again, were met with warm and very sunny conditions which made fishing tough.

Winner on the day was Sean Leatherland.  Drawing peg 11, Sean fished the pole at around 10 metres and fed maggots, casters and pinkie over ground bait to catch over 100 fish for 5lb 12 ozs and an easy win on the day

In second place was the ever consistent Myles Tommey.   Myles has a knack of drawing well in the Sunday matches and this match was no exception.  Drawing end peg 19 Myles demonstrated his great fishing ability to catch 4lb 1 ozs and keep himself at the top of the leagues leaderboard.

Myles was followed closely by Dave Whillock in 3rd place who is also keeping up with Myles on the leaderboard .  Dave fished mostly worm over chopped worm and ground bait to catch mostly perch for a weight of 3lb 3ozs 8 drms.

The 2026 Sunday Series will continue on 16th August 2026 on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton.  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 

Match Result - Sunday Series

Overall Standings - Sunday Series

Match Report 5th August Danni’s Lake How End

It was warm and bright with a nice blue sky as we met at How End on Wednesday, but after our draw the dark clouds appeared, and we all realised our rain god Dennis was back on the bank with us after several weeks away. 

True to form as we were setting up the wind got up and a brief but heavy cold rain shower caught most unprepared, a few had taken umbrellas and jackets but most of us just got wet. 

However, the sun soon came out again accompanied by a stiff breeze and we all managed to dry out!

Danni's was low due to lack of rainfall, but was holding good colour, and most fishing were in for a real red letter day with four weights over 100lb recorded, the Carp being in full on feeding mode.

Colin Kidd had top weight using a top kit and top kit plus one. For bait he was using 6 mm banded pellets, while feeding micros, 4mm and 6mm pellets, Colin ended the session with 189lb 3oz, a Luton Wednesday record weight. Colin who is a bit of a commercial specialist commented it was a thoroughly enjoyable day on a brilliant venue

Jim Tookey spent the first 90 mins fishing shallow for the big Ide but then changed to fish the margin for Carp with pellet. Jim decided to change as with lots of Carp being caught by others he realised he wasn’t getting enough weight in the nets by staying on the silvers and needed to get some bigger fish to stay in contention. He finished second taking 137lb 2oz  

Dave (The Bream) Whillock started on a method feeder using corn on the hook and had a couple of fish on this method early on. While fishing this way Dave was continually feeding the margin with caster, pellet and corn and after about an hour and a half he switched to pellet in the margins, and caught carp almost continuously for the rest of the session ending with 129lb 6oz for third

Colin Holmes started by putting two balls of ground bait, pellets and hemp either side of his keepnets in the margins. Initially he caught a few skimmers, Ide and roach at top kit plus 2. He was mortified later when he came to weigh in to find most of these silver fish had escaped through big hole in net he had chosen. Colin said as soon as he saw movement around his nets where he had been feeding, he went onto paste (made with fishery bought 2mm pellets soaked) and started to catch the Carp.

Colin was very honest at the end of the day, owning to 3 big mistakes, he should have used a pole pot to feed as he thought he had too much bait spread around and this resulted in foul hooking fish, checked more frequently the line was not caught around top of the pole, and the biggest one of all carefully check the fishery nets you choose for holes!

Many thanks to Phil Tanya and Pip for making us welcome and to all those who assisted with the admin and the weighing in, the scales crew had a hard job with multiple weighs on many of the nets yesterday.

Results
1st Colin Kidd 189lb 3oz  
2nd Jim Tookey 137lb 2oz  
3rd Dave Whillock 129lb 6oz  
4th Colin Holmes 118lb 1oz  
5th Keith Ward 66lb 5oz  
6th Ray Burton 63lb 9oz  
7th Les Burton 63lb 3oz  
8th Sam Rose 54lb 3oz  
9th Simon Foulkes 49lb 10oz
10th Sean Leatherland 48lb 1oz  
11th Graham Stringer 45lb 0oz  
12th Andy Frankum 39lb 12oz  
13th Dennis Hunt 21lb 7oz  
14th Mark Sessions 20lb 0oz

Our next match is Wednesday 12 August and is on the GUC at Braggenham Side, 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.
How End - Danni's - Midweek Match
Fixture Updates for Members
A couple of late additions to our fixtures list to be aware of:
Oakwood Summer League – Round 5 has been relocated from Northampton to the GUC at Slapton & Ivinghoe. The match will take place on Sunday 23rd August 2026.
Biddenham will be closed on Sunday 6th September 2026 for an external WDNAC match.
These fixtures aren’t in the printed membership books, so please make a note if you’re planning your weekends. We have updated the website events calendar accordingly.

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

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