Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 30th September 2018

WYBOSTON TRACK REPAIRS

A few more photos of the work being carried out on the Wyboston track recently. There is still more work to do there but if people drive at a sensible speed the ongoing work will be limited.

WYBOSTON OUSE

Pawel & Mariusz fishing for Team Ceks caught a variety of nice specimens with bream, pike, perch and roach all coming to the net.

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Stuart Harvey tempted a personal best half lin of 30lb

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Daniel Gray managed a 20lb 10oz common

GRAND UNION CANAL

The canal carp seem to have become harder to tempt with the drop in overnight temperatures so Tim Grover was very happy with his 11lb 4oz ghostie. Once the temperatures settle down the carp will as always be back on the feed.

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 23rd September 2018

Another busy week on Luton AC controlled waters.

WYBOSTON TRACK REPAIRS

A good year for the club has meant that we were able to invest a considerable sum into repairs on the Wyboston track and the work took place on Saturday with heavy plant making a good job of it. Its vitally important that members do not speed along the track as that will simply cut it up very quickly and we will be back to large potholes and spending more members money. This will mean not carrying out work and stocking elsewhere unless subs are increased substantially so do please drive slowly and report anyone seen driving too fast to one of our bailiffs with a description of the car/van and the reg if possible. 

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Graeme Gadsby had a red letter day banking seven carp to 31lb with the largest being the much sought after common known as Shadow. 

Adrian Jaworski also fished North House and was rewarded with a 27lb 5oz common.

GREAT OUSE

Marek Zanko landed a decent pike and also had perch to over 2lb on the Ouse at Wyboston. 

Also on an undisclosed part of the river Filip Dunaj caught a 5lb 8oz chub along with carp of 19lb 11oz and 18lb 3oz.

 John Morris was fishing the Ouse at Biddenham catching some nice size perch with Dave Murdoch having decent roach.

GRAND UNION CANAL

Tim Grover had a repeat capture but wasn't complaining as it was the mirror known as Two Tone at 24lb 12oz. 

This summers great weather has produced an abundance of fry along the canal with many thousands of roach being seen below the Three Locks this week. Hopefully many will survive to maturity and add to the excellent canal fishing anglers are currently experiencing.

MATCH RESULT

Abbey Lads fished South Lagoon 16/9/18

1st L WILLIS 9-13 SKIMMERS

2nd D WHILLOCK 7-12 SKIMMERS+ ROACH

3rd D SMITH 6- 11 SKIMMERS + ROACH
4th K WARD 5-2 SKIMMERS

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 16th September 2018

WORK PARTY

Saturday saw the fisheries team out clearing the very overgrown section of River Ouse at Wyboston with a further 14 swims and tidied up the existing swims. We now have a total of 30 swims along the river as it's now possible to easily access and fish the river past the nature reserve car park which has not been possible for several years. Thanks as usual to the volunteers that helped out. This section of river has in the last 18 months produced barbel to 13lb, chub over 6lb, pike over 20lb, zander to 10lb, carp over 20lb, perch well over 3lb, tench to 8lb, bream over 6lb and big eels!

On the same stretch of river Wojciech from Team Ceks had a nice size pike.

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Simon Jeffries caught commons of 20lb and 15lb 10oz along with two 6lb bream but lost one of the large catfish at 3am.

 

Matthew Lloyd and Andrew Tyers both caught 8lb bream during their visit to the reservoir

KEMPSTON LAKE

Brad Pearson tempted three carp to 23lb 1oz 

and Paul Williams had the same number to 26lb 4oz

GRAND UNION CANAL
Dennis Hunt had a good day on Friday at the top of Three Locks catching numbers of Bream and a couple of lovely Perch

All caught on the float using a pole No 5 hollow Elastic and 2.2 Lb (0.9) hook link to an 18 hook using single maggot as bait

LETS FISH GRAND UNION CANAL EVENT

Last Sunday the club ran the penultimate taster session scheduled for this year at Three Locks. The weather was sunny and warm, and the day went extremely well.

We were assisted by friends and wives with the booking in and administration, Coaches from The Canal & River Trust, Tring Anglers and MKAA. Amer Jawad a well-known match angler who represents one of the large European tackle firms made a second guest appearance to support us. We also had a lady who was doing market research for CRT, and we hope collected some positive comments about the work we are doing supporting the ‘Lets Fish’ Campaign.

We had 42 new and returning anglers come with all ages well represented, and we were delighted to see several disabled people trying fishing for the first time and getting on so well they have arranged further sessions. We had retired people who had not been fishing for 40 years come with their grandchildren and really enjoy themselves. They were on the Canal bank in the open air and were stimulated by the environment and the session sparked them with a desire to take up fishing again. 

Nearly all who attended caught well with some good specimens being landed. We had numbers of Roach, Bream and some very nice Perch. We were all tired at the end of the day but had a great feeling that we had done our bit to spark interest and support angling and promote the Club.

We have one further ‘Open’ session this year, again at Three Locks on 7^th October, and spaces are still available if you want to come, so don’t miss the opportunity, bookings are taken via the CRT ‘Eventbright’ system.

Special thanks must go to Browns tackle in Leighton Buzzard who very generously sponsored all the bait for this event, contributing to the success

Steve