Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 21st January 2018

Another boost for the local canal angling scene this week when the Canal & Rivers Trust took advantage of a lock repair to drain down the Horton section and relocate all of the fish. The Horton section is not fishable due to power lines overhead so moving the fish gives a huge boost to other fishable areas of the canal without paying out money for new stock fish. In total around 800lb of fish were moved including 32 carp with a couple up around the 30lb mark, very many bream and several good sized perch. Fish will naturally travel back into the Horton section and we hope to be able to carry out further fish transfers in the future. Many thanks to the Canal & Rivers Trust and MEM Fisheries who worked extremely hard on the day and the two hardy members of the Luton AC Board who stood in the cold taking photos and watched the fish relocated to the new area of canal.

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

At Beckerings Reservoir Luke Marvin managed a double figure mirror & common during an overnight session with both falling to Thripsters Pearl.

SOUTH LAGOON

Wojciech fishing for Team Ceks landed a double figure pike from the South Lagoon

GRAND UNION CANAL

Rather under rated as a pike venue the canal is quietly producing specimens without many realising. Today I was talking to a lure angler who told me he had caught some good sized canal pike on the Luton AC controlled sections and a friend had caught a 20lb specimen. Finding them on the 12 miles of canal we control is always the challenge though.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

The only report from North House was that 80% had frozen over on Saturday night. Thanks to Lee Smith for the report and photo which may have saved people a wasted journey.

LEVEL 1 COACHING BURSARIES

Canal and River Trust are putting together a bid to the Angling Trust Angling Improvement fund for training an additional number of level 1 coaches. There would be no cost to the club for prospective coaches to be trained but clearly clubs and individuals that benefit would need to sign up as long term partners of the Trust to deliver their Lets Fish campaign. Luton have already done this and we have a number of level 1 and 2 coaches committed to the project. The Level One course takes 2 days

Anyone interested please contact us it's a very rewarding thing to do.

Steve