Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 30th October 2017

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Carl Clark had a four carp catch to 19lb all caught on TNT pop-ups over 1kg of bottom baits.

New angler Ralph Walker caught a new personal best 12lb 4oz mirror on Mad Baits Esta Blend pop ups during a coaching session with our Level 1 coach Filip Dunaj

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Terry Willison tempted a 28lb 6oz mirror on Mad Baits.

Wojciech Dunaj managed a small pike while lure fishing 

MATCH RESULT

Abbey Lads decided to visit the Ouse at Eaton Ford 

Eaton Ford is still being redeveloped via grant funding with around 10 of hopefully 24 pegs now open.

The water was very clear but there were bites all day although many were missed and some better fish hooked and lost.

Quality roach and dace were caught and the skimmers were very dark fish. Everyone enjoyed the day at Eaton Ford.

1st D SMITH 7LB 6OZ PERCH ROACH DACE
2nd P DEPPE 5LB 12OZ PERCH ROACH DACE
3rd D WHILLOCK 4LB 12OZ SKIMMERS PERCH

VENUE CLOSURE WYBOSTON TRACK REPAIRS 10-11th NOVEMBER 2017

The Wyboston Complex (North House Lake, South Lagoon & River Great Ouse) will be closed for fishing from 6pm on Friday 10th November until 6pm on Saturday 11th November as after numerous delays beyond our control we are now able to level the track.

Volunteers are needed on the day to help move materials and fill holes as its a long track and much work is required to level it. If anyone can spare a few hours then please get in touch via PM. If you have a wheelbarrow/garden rake/spade/shovel it would be helpful plus gloves. We do have a quantity of engineering bricks (ones with holes) but could do with more if anyone has some going spare they can donate. Food and tea/coffee will be provided on the day as our work parties are always good social events as well.
If volunteers could arrive for 9am please but be mindful that heavy plant will be working on site.
We have informed the Heron syndicate and the Nature Reserve of the track closure.

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 22nd October 2017

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Jack Woodham had a nice pike of 15lb.

Carl Clark tempted a 20lb 7oz common on a Hydrabaits TNT pop up fished over TNT freebies.

Young Callum added to his tally of good fish with 2 carp, 3 bream and a good sized pike using Thripster berry.

RIVER GREAT OUSE BIDDENHAM

Fergal O'Kane caught another 3lb+ perch from Biddenham with his latest one tipping the scales at 3lb 5oz.

RIVER GREAT OUSE WYBOSTON

Craig Gibson tempted a 3lb 6oz perch from the clubs day ticket stretch at Wyboston.  The river is well known for its specimen perch, pike, zander, carp & chub just turn up and fish our bailiff will sell you a day ticket on the bank.

SOUTH LAGOON

Simon Heath has had some good catches of carp lately and has sent us photos of fish to 26lb.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Carlo Borromeo continues to catch at North House with his latest common weighing 24lb 4oz caught on Mad Baits Nutz Plus

KEMPSTON LAKE

Kempston bailiff Chris Thripp has had another decent sized mirror on Thripsters mixes.

MATCH RESULTS 

Enfield Highway fished the Grand Union Canal Town North outside Tesco

1st Craig Palmer 38lb 8oz

2nd John Fisher 19lb 6oz

3rd Roger Reeves 11lb 7oz

Potters Bar fished the Grand Union Canal at Stoke Hammond where boat traffic and the level dropping 10inches during the match made for challenging conditions. Biggest fish was a 1lb 5oz perch. No names given

1st 4lb 14oz 

2nd 3lb 12oz

3rd 3lb 5oz

EATON FORD

Eight volunteers braved Saturdays winds and turned out for the work party on the River Great Ouse at Eaton Ford where a new platform was built and meshed.

Thanks guys, good work, well done

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 15th October 2017

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Terry Willison tempted a 28lb 5oz common on Mad Baits

while Braidan Tidmarsh managed a 20lb common

GRAND UNION CANAL

Marc Hill has been doing well catching specimen perch lately with fish to 3lb 5oz.

Connor Paradine & Jamie Gladish caught mirrors of 19lb 7oz and 17lb 5oz

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Carl Clark recently rejoined the club and was instantly rewarded with commons of 15lb & 12lb caught on Hydrabaits

MATCH RESULT

Abbey Lads fished the Grand Union Canal at Stoke Hammond on 8th October and with the level down by a foot it was always going to be hard going once the boats started coming through

1st D WHILLOCK 23LB 14OZ BREAM & PERCH

2nd P DEPPE 4LB 12OZ

3rd D SMITH 3LB 15OZ

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 8th October 2017

Luton Angling Club experienced the highs and lows of running fisheries this week.

Sadly overnight on Sunday 1st October there was a substantial fish kill on our Grand Union Canal controlled Grove Church section with many specimen bream, perch and carp found floating dead. It was soon categorised as a level 1 fish kill which is the highest it could be classed as. Over the coming days MEM Fisheries working on behalf of the Canal & River Trust (C&RT) removed and disposed of over 1000lb of corpses including good sized carp, bream near 5lb and perch of 3lb.

The Club are awaiting more information from C&RT as to the exact cause of the deaths and we will be closely monitoring all the Canal sections we control, however recent dredging and silt deposition in the area are initially suspected of being a contributory factor, This incident we hope will be limited to the area of Church Lock.

Such a serious loss of fish will be fully investigated by the C&RT and the Environment Agency and claims for compensation & restocking will be vigorously followed up by the Club through Fish Legal the legal arm of the Angling Trust.

On a much more positive note on Thursday 5th October the club took delivery of 21x C3 (3 season old) mirror carp from Priory Fishery in Devon and these were stocked into North House Lake. Weighing between almost 5lb & 8lb+ these fish are fast growing carp having reached over 50lb in other waters they have been stocked into.

On the fishing front the cooler weather has meant fewer reports and with leaves starting to fall fishing can often be tricky.

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Robert Hall landed two mirrors of 24lb and 18lb 8oz

GRAND UNION CANAL

Bailiff Michael Wilkins spent 3.5hrs on Friday evening on the lower pound at Grove Church catching around 8lb of roach and skimmers fishing bread punch at 6m. 

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 1st October 2017

NORTH HOUSE LAKE STOCKING & THE WYBOSTON COMPLEX TRACK UPDATE

By popular demand well known Priory Fishery Devon will be stocking North House Lake with 20x C3 carp on Thursday 5th October at around 1pm. C3 carp are 3 seasons old and will be 4-6lb in weight. Priory Fishery carp are well known for their fast growth and they have supplied C3 fish into other waters that now exceed 50lb. Please look after these fish as they are the future of the lake. North House will remain open and any member is welcome to attend although we cannot guarantee the exact time of arrival at present 1pm is the best estimate.

The Wyboston Complex track has taken considerably longer to sort out than we initially hoped but progress is being made so thanks for your continued patience and we really hope to have some positive long overdue news soon.

EATON FORD GATE

Unfortunately in the Spring of this year the gate at the club owned Eaton Ford fishery was completely destroyed by persons wanting to steal from the allotment sheds.

It has taken some months to source another gate and all the necessary material and manpower.

Unfortunately the first attempt Plan A found the gate did not sit correctly but today's Plan 'B' turned out to be successful and we received the following report from Fisheries Manager David Farmer -

'After a not so easy removal of the post from Plan A, digging took priority after some time with puffing, panting and very near collapse (at this juncture we agreed if anyone pegged it they'd get buried in the hole) resulted in a hole of approx three foot round and almost the same depth. Peering down I had trepidation of what it would take to fill this cavity.
Next 5 foot steel poles got rammed down through the bottom of the hole. Tops of these poles finished up well below ground level so the bottoms must be getting on to 6 foot down. A couple of three & half footers were added and rammed in.
Gate post now positioned with heavy duty angle iron crisis crossing Postcrete & water covered the bottom of the hole. Adding lumps of old concrete, postcrete, water & tamping about eventually it filled rising to just below ground level and looking most satisfactory.
By my estimate dry weight of the fill must be over a quarter of a ton.
At this stage while the postcrete set we retired for refreshments ( to replenish some of the tremendous energy used ) Nearly an hour later the gate was hung, set up and showed all the signs of a good solid job.
Disposable items used for this one post :-
6 X 20kg bags of Postcrete, approx 3 hundred weight of concrete lumps, gallons of water, steel tube, angle, 14 rashers of bacon, 5 eggs, dozen bread rolls and over a gallon of tea the result being a job well done.
Guarantee you may well ask well I can't guarantee it will last forever but I can guarantee it'll last longer than Plan 'A' and if anyone has to remove it at some time it ain't going to be easy.
My thanks to the valiant volunteers David M, Neville, Bob & Connor. Oh and I helped'

GRAND UNION CANAL

Connor Paradine managed an 18lb 5oz mirror on a 20mm krill boilie

with Jamie Gladish also having two nice mirrors.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Carlo Borromeo kept up his good catch rate at North House with a 24lb 4oz common caught using Mad Baits Twisted Nutz boilies.

Steve