Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area. Week Ending 28th June 2020

WEDNESDAY KNOCK UP MATCH

The Wednesday Knock Up match this week was at The River Ouse at Wyboston here is Dennis Hunt's report from the day...

"We had a cracking day out today with everyone enjoying themselves. Five fished including Dean Beach a St Neots angler who purchased a day ticket to fish with us.  We had arrived at Wyboston to find the river looking in perfect shape with good colour and nice flow, so expectations were high on what was obviously going to be a hot, bright day.  I personally had a slow start spending a biteless first hour on a feeder before switching to a 6 No5 stick float down the edge fishing hemp which proved to be a successful tactic.  Others either stuck to the feeder or switched between feeder and float throughout the day Dean had a nice chunky Bream, Naula Grey suffered with pike and Barry Roper hooked a huge fish that bent his rod double before eventually breaking him"

Results

1st Dennis Hunt

7lbs 6oz All Roach

2nd Dean Beach 

7lbs 2oz Bream and other small fish

3rd Nuala Grey 

4lbs 4oz

Barry Roper 

3Lbs 11oz

Next week we will be at Biddenham, no day tickets this time as its members only but any member interested in joining us will be very welcome, meet in the car park for a 9am draw, fish 10 till 3 with £5.00 optional pools

CATCH REPORTS

GRAND UNION CANAL

A new canal PB Common was caught by Tim Grover. 

BECKERINGS

Steve Lindop caught one of the Beckerings cats at 50lb 12oz.

Andy Onacko caught a 20lb 8oz from Beckerings Reservoir

NORTH HOUSE

Barry Emery on his first session at North House caught his first proper carp at 21lb 3oz.

Dean Brittain managed to get 'Pecs' out and caught off the surface at a nice weight of 28lb 6oz.

THE GREAT OUSE

Wojciech Weremij with a chunky river bream at 10lb 2oz from the Wyboston stretch.

Trevor Bunnage fished the Eaton Ford stretch of the River Ouse describing it as an unbelievable venue. He had 19 Bream in all with the smallest at 3lb and the largest around 7lb.

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area. Week Ending 14th June 2020

CLUB NEWS
Hardworking Lavendon Bailiffs Bob and Roger were out strimming and preparing the swims on the upstream section of Lavendon Mill ready for the 16th June.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Following a visit and tests from Kye the EA Officer this morning and the confirmed case of Blue Green Algae, we are acting on his best advice and will be closing North House for a week to allow things to recover. Not ideal at this busy time but a lake with no fish will be useless.  We have been told that fish are likely to be very stressed and anglers are unlikely to catch, and if they do, fish that are stressed are open to infection if damaged. They have suggested we close the lake for a week and assess on a weekly basis from then on. This will reduce nutrient input from anglers, (bait), and reduce the chances of further stressing fish if captured.  We will be monitoring the oxygen levels on a daily basis as advised by the EA and have plans in place should an oxygen crash occur and fish become distressed.  

The club has also replaced its aging DO meter with a brand new OxyGuard Handy Polaris which isn't cheap but an essential piece of kit for any fishery and will allow us to carefully monitor the dissolved oxygen levels during hot weather to ensure the wellbeing of our fish

EATON FORD

The Eaton Ford Team Glen Daniels and Stewart Thornton and also new member David Freeman, have been hard at work preparing the river and backwater ready for June 16th. They have cleared the swims on the main river and the backwater. 

CATCH REPORTS

SLIPE LANE

Charlie Albone had a Common from Boot Pit at Slipe Lane.  Although not a monster, but it's his first carp from the new pits.  Nice to see some catch reports from the new waters.

Charlie Hornby had a 21lb Common from Railway Pit at Slipe Lane.

BECKERINGS

Scott Shuckford fished a short 5-hour session and had one of the larger cats out at 62lb 3oz.

Dariusz Blahuta caught 'Yellow Spot' from Beckerings last Tuesday. Although it wasn't weighed this time, it was last out at just over 21lb 10oz.

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area Week Ending 7th June 2020

Membership has now completely sold out for the 2020/21 season.

MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION WINNER - MAY 2020

Mason Lougher won the May Monthly Photo Competition with a 32lb stunner from Kempston Lake. £25 goes to Mason for the photo. 

CATCH REPORTS

BECKERINGS

Paul Donald caught 'Donkey Head' at 34lb 8oz.

Neil Cox caught four carp at 21lb 6oz, 15lb, 16lb & 20lb 3oz.

George Dowley only had his rods in the water for 5 mins before catching a stunning 18lb common.

GRAND UNION CANAL

Amer Jawad was out on the Grand Union Canal for a Match Fishing magazine feature last week on the not so aptly named ‘cyanide straight’ at Three Locks. He said, 'Willow fluff galore made life very difficult at times but what a stretch of canal that Luton Angling club have. 35lb of mainly skimmers, one large hybrid that thought it was a carp and two big bream over 3lb made today’s feature quite a memorable day in the heat!'  The feature is out in the July issue of Match Fishing magazine.  

Roy Wright caught a nice Mirror from the GUC. 

KEMPSTON 

Chris Gregory caught a super PB Tench in the early hours of the morning at 10lb 1oz.  He said it was a beautiful fish and certainly the biggest Tench he has ever caught!

4th June 2020 - Membership is Full

 MEMBERSHIP FOR THE 2020/21 SEASON IS NOW FULL & WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR NEW MEMBERS OR RENEWALS