Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area. 31st August 2020

A Bumper August Bank Holiday edition of our weekly news report this week as despite the wet and windy weather at the start of this week many of you have been out on the banks and have had good results so we have received lots of catch reports.

Beckerings Reservoir

Only the 2nd time on Beckerings for Paul Parkinson and a 48 hour session resulted in four fish, 2 carp the first at 19lb 10oz and the other at 16lb 1oz. He also had 2 decent sized Bream. All were caught on the mad baits iso cream on slip d rig with a pva stick of pellets. 

Also at Beckerings Jason Wilson had a memorable session catching one of the reservoirs largest residents during a 48hr session at Beckerings - a Catfish weighing in at 61lb 4oz a new PB for him it took an hour to land it. He also caught his first Common carp at 16lb 10oz.

Tim Marler fished a short afternoon session at Beckerings and had a 22lb Common

North House Lake

After his Beckerings success Paul Parkinson also fished at North House this week and managed a 20lb 7oz Mirror Carp again the tactic was a slip d rig using a wicked white popup and PVA stick of pellets.

Rod Gladston had a nice golden common on Saturday afternoon weighing in at 27lb 5oz

Wyboston River Ouse

Wyboston regular Wojciech caught nice sized Tench at 6lb 1oz.

Grand Union Canal

Gareth Evans  had a red letter day for on the Grand Union Canal. A New PB at 30lb 2oz , a beautiful 17lb mirror & also a 20lb mirror

Also on the Grand Union Canal Dean Ayres caught a 3lb 5oz Perch.

Kempston Lake

Neil Cox continued his session on Kempston and sent in pictures of fish 3 and 4 that didn't quite make it in time for last week's report. Fish 3 was an 18lb 4oz Mirror and fish 4 was slightly larger at 18lb 14oz and was taken off the surface.

David Steed braved the brutally strong winds and did a 3 night session on Kempston lake enjoying a socially distant social with 2 friends resulting in a capture of 4 fish between them. David had Commons of 19lb 8oz and 20lb. Gary Mcghee had a 20lb 9oz Common and James Hunter one at 25lb 4oz all the fish were caught on MadBaits Pop Ups. 

Also at Kempston Lake Janusz Badowski had a 24lb 2oz Mirror on Sunday evening.

River Thames - Sonning

Luton members are able to fish this stretch via a water share agreement with Barnet and District Angling Club. This week a 15lb 2oz Barbel was reported via their Facebook page. A little further afield but well worth a trip if Barbel are a target species.

Match Report 

Butch Murphy the league organiser sent in this report from the recent Sensas Oakwood League - Round 4 match at Ivinghoe. 

"Ivinghoe fished brilliantly with 9 double figure weights and another 10 weights over 8lb out of a total of 30 anglers that's top canal fishing"

"Jason Cunningham (cadence) took 1st place with 19.9.0 - 3 big perch small skimmers and roach from A section at the Horton end of the boundary.

In Second place was Andy Gregory (Oakwood Green) who had small skimmers and roach from the same section for 12.3.0

In Third place was Ian Young (Oakwood Purple) fishing B section with 12lb of skimmers

The roach fed throughout the lowest section and the winning weight was 9.11.0

A brilliant match we couldn't have asked for more well done to Luton Angling Club for maintaining such a fabulous stretch of canal"

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to send in their pictures and don't forget reports all pictures of catches from Luton AC venues (by club members) are entered in to our monthly catch of the month photo prize and you stand a chance of winning a £25.00 prize. (note the prize is awarded to the captor and not the person who took the photo)

Tight Lines Until Next Week

Dave

Luton AC

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area. Week Ending 23rd August 2020

Here is this weeks round up of catch reports and news from all Luton Angling Club Waters. Keep the reports coming in and we would especially like to get some reports from our River sections so please do let us know how you get on if you visit any of them.

Beckerings Reservoir 

Nick Duffy had a 33lb Mirror Carp from Beckerings on Monday which isn’t one of the named 30lb plus fish.

Kempston Lake

Kempston lake is fishing well at the moment and multiple fish have been reported this week. A nice 24lb Common for James Newills at Kempston Lake on Monday evening.

Dale Carter also had success catching three carp in the last week he said they were all hard fighting mid teens and great fun.

Neil Cox was also at Kempston and had two fish one at 14lb and the other at 19lb 12oz. He forgot to press record on his phone so did not get a picture of the smaller fish. He was using mad baits nutz pop up on a ronnie rig with a PVA stick with crushed nutz over thin silk weed.

Ricky Angell also had success at Kempston landing four fish the largest one weighing in at 29lb 9oz.

Grand Union Canal

Dave Murdoch and Dave Farmer fished Slapton on Thursday afternoon and had a good fun session catching lots of Roach, Gudgeon and Skimmers successful baits were Maggot and Sweetcorn.

Wednesday Match Report by Dennis Hunt.

Seven members of the Wednesday group met at Cooks Wharf this week to fish ‘Away’ on the Tring water which is being used for the Canal Pairs heat on Sunday.Two of our members are competing and wanted to practice, so we had all agreed to fish with them.

It was overcast when we met in the car park, but this soon turned into steady rain as we made our way down the towpath. The rain got heavier as we set up, and continued through the day, but we were soon into the fish with many having a bright first hour at 4 Metres. All the usual canal baits scored well fish being taken on Squatt, Pinkies and Caster. The winner and second who are fishing as a pair Sunday fished the waggler over in what turned out to be an extremely wide and deep section of Canal.

Despite the persistent rain all who came enjoyed the day. There is no picture of the winning bag as Richard was so anxious to get out of the rain he tipped them back before the camera was produced!

Results

Richard Gibbs

(Waggler)

7lbs 6oz

Nuala Gray

(Waggler)

5lbs 14oz

Barry Roper

(Pole 113 Fish)

5lbs 2oz

Dave Britton

(Pole)

4lbs 12oz

Dennis Hunt

(Pole 44 Fish)

4lbs 4oz

The group are not meeting this week due to holiday and other commitments but will be back on the bank the following Wednesday 2nd September on the river at Wyboston. Meet behind North House lake for a 9am draw, fish 10 till 3 £5.00 optional pools.  As this is a day ticket venue non-members are welcome to join us on this occasion.

Next weeks news report will be published on Monday 31st August as it is a Bank Holiday weekend.

Tight Lines

Dave M

Luton AC

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Area. Week Ending 16th August 2020

Here is this weeks round up of Luton Angling Club's News and catch reports.Don’t forget to send in your reports as all pictures sent in are entered in to our monthly photo prize competition with a £25.00 prize awarded each month to the best picture judged by the Luton AC committee. July’s winner was Devin Gregory with his 32lb 4oz Common Carp from Kempston.

North House Lake
Crispin Valentine had a nice little 17lb Common from North House Lake on Saturday evening. The algal bloom appeared again briefly this week following the spell of hot weather and we are monitoring the oxygen levels on a daily basis. The lake remains open at this time and we ask members to let us know immediately if they see any dead fish or signs of fish in distress and care should be taken by members to limit contact with the potentially toxic algal scum when it is present on the water. 

Beckerings Reservoir 
Paul Parkinson fished the Reservoir for the first time and he wasn't disappointed as he had a lovely Mirror carp at 17lb it was caught on iso cream with a pva stick of pellets. 

Neil Cox also had a 48hr session at Beckerings and caught a 24lb Common an hour after setting up. Later in the session he moved to the  opposite end of the reservoir and had a 16lb fish within 5 mins of casting tight to the margins he then had his third fish of the session weighing 15lb 8oz and then the fourth a mid-double Common with his alarms giving him an 02:20am wake up call. All the fish were caught on mad baits.

Grand Union Canal
Bailiff Andy Gladdish caught a lovely 15lb GUC fully scaled Mirror which is almost certainly another of the 3000 stockies that were introduced to the canal some years ago when they only a few inches long It was caught on 6lb line and 5lb hooklength on a 9.5m pole

Kempston Lake 
Dale Carter was enjoying the heat with a stunning PB Mirror at 25lb from Kempston on Monday

Wyboston River Ouse 
Queens Works fished a match on the River Ouse at Wyboston last weekend and had a great day despite the high temperatures.  Double figure weights of Roach were reported. Various baits were used with the winner catching on maggot, feeding with a bait dropper to get through the bleak, while others used Hemp and Tares with Elderberry, a little used bait these days but deadly on the day. 

Their comment was Wyboston is brilliant for Roach, we love it!

The best Fish taken was a Perch of 2lbs 8oz taken on maggot an hour before the end of the match.

Results
1st Stuart Kiteley 
11lbs 14oz
2nd (tie) Dai and Phil Mann 10lbs 4oz

Wednesday Match Report
Dennis Hunt sent us in his usual weekly match report "The Wednesday match this week was held at Cooks Wharf. It was a hot and humid day, and to try and get some shade we went for a long walk along the towpath. Two new members joined us, Dave Britain and Steve Osman, so five fished, a bit light this week due to holidays.

We started well and all had fish in the first hour, but the fishing slowed as the temperature steadily rose, coming back a little in the last hour. 

We had rumbling thunder all around us and when packing up we had a torrential downpour but being under the tree canopy we escaped a soaking.

We walked back to the cars and started to pack away, and the heavens opened again, and this time we all got wet! 
Results
1st Nuala Grey 
3lb 12oz
2nd Steve Osman 
3lb10oz
3rd Dave Britain 
1lb 13 oz
Next week the group will fish the Tring Anglers stretch at Cooks Wharf. A Tring day ticket will apply so meet in the Cooks Wharf car park at 9 for the draw, fish 10 till 3 £5.00 optional pools. As it's a day ticket stretch non club members are also welcome to attend”
Next week the group will fish the Tring Anglers stretch at Cooks Wharf. A Tring day ticket will apply so meet in the Cooks Wharf car park at 9 for the draw, fish 10 till 3 £5.00 optional pools. As it is a day ticket stretch non club members are also welcome to attend"

Let's Fish Events 2020
Luton AC's Angling Trust Coaches have been busy over the last few weeks delivering a series of Free "Covid - Safe" Let's Fish events at Three Locks Stoke Hammond and also some other local locations. These events enable young people and adults to try their hand at fishing.The coaches have also participated in a couple of special events for local scout groups so far they have had over 80 people attend and all caught fish despite the very hot weather and it looks like they have launched several angling careers with many attending wanting to follow on and take up the sport.
There are some further events planned so if you are interested there may still be a few places available have a look at the canal and river trust angling facebook page where bookings can be made. Please note that due to the health and safety requirements and guidelines relating to COVID-19 walk ups are not permitted and all attendees must pre book a place.

Tight Lines Until Next Week
Dave M

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area. Week Ending 9th August 2020.

Please send in any reports and pictures when you go fishing on any of our waters. Don't forget any pictures sent in are automatically entered in to our Monthly photo competition and you could win £25.

North House Lake 
Jordan Philip and Nathaniel Boston fished North House last weekend and had three 20lb+ fish between them.

Jordan fished again on Tuesday for a short session of only a few hours and had this 24lb Mirror within the first 10 minutes of the session.

Also at North House Bailiff Brian Turner had a great looking Dark Common at 21lb

Beckerings Reservoir

Matthew Scott and David Flint Cox had a good session on Beckerings and caught multiple fish and said the surface fishing was great as usual.

Jamie Gladish also caught one of the Beckerings beauties and he also reported a new PB Common for his mate Ty Foster.

We also received a report that the carp known as Half Lin was caught by someone surface fishing weighing 35lb along with another common of 25lb - these were not reported officially so we do not have any pictures.

Match Reports

Five anglers fished the Wednesday Knock up match this week, They fished an ‘Away’ venue this week as some of them needed to practice for the Canal Pairs heat to be held at the end of August. The group fished the Aylesbury Arm of the GUC at Bierton, Bridge 15 on the Arm to be precise. The day started quite chilly and still but warmed up as it went on with a very blustery wind getting up later. 

Top angler was Barry Roper who put 113 fish for 5lbs 12oz on the scales. Barry caught his mixed bag on Caster fished on the bottom in the centre of the Canal. 

Second was Richard Gibbs with 2lb 11oz and third was Nuala Gray with 2lb 5oz.

 

The day wasn't entirely without incident, with Nuala having two sections of her pole blown off the rest on into the Canal on two occasions, fortunately they were retrieved! they also had a boat that couldn't steer, which provided some entertainment, they made captain Pugwash look like the captain of the QE2, it’s hard to describe the incompetence politely.

 

If anyone is thinking of fishing the venue soon you do need to take a weed rake.

 

They said that they will almost certainly be back to fish there again in the Autumn.

 

This week on Wednesday the group will fish Cooks Wharf, meet in the Car Park for a 9am walk off draw fish 10 till 3, £5.00 optional pools, non-members are welcome to join us provided they pay the day ticket

Abbey Lads fished a match at Beckerings Reservoir on Sunday 2nd August and here is their results.

R.Beaver 37-11

(includes a 20lb carp and 17lb Carp)

D.Smith 9-5-0

(includes an 8lb bream)

K.Ward 4-1-0

L.Willis 3-2-8

D Whillock 0-11-0

Tight Lines until Next Week

Dave

Luton AC

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area. Week Ending 2nd August 2020

Here is this weeks round up of Luton Angling Club's News and Catch Reports. We really appreciate any information, reports and stories from any of our waters and you don't have to catch a monster sized fish to feature in our weekly reports.

Jamie Burr fished North House Lake and caught Commons of 23lb 3oz and 24lb and he also lost one fish.

Also on North House Brett Collins fished his first ever session and after speaking with knowledgeable Bailiff Brian Turner he followed some of the tips and useful advice given about the lake and this paid off resulting in a 19lb 8oz Mirror - he sends his thanks to Brian for the info

Beckerings Reservoir

Carl Ramsay fished Beckerings on 31st July and had a 20lb 10oz Common and two Mirrors at 17lb 6oz & 16lb 8oz. The two mirrors were caught on the surface.

Kempston Lake

Peter Offer ended his 3 day session at Kempston Lake, with 2 fish on the bank 24lb 8oz Carp and an 8lb bream he also lost a couple of other fish.

Biddenham River Ouse 

Bailiffs Des Saunders and Terry Roberts and regular work party volunteer Alan Armstrong were at Biddenham this week repairing the platforms in Peg 9 that were damaged and made unsafe by a fallen tree branch so thanks to them for giving up their spare time to make this happen.

Wednesday Knock Up Match report 29 July 2020

Here is this weeks Wednesday match report from Dennis Hunt:- It was great to be back on the Canal for the first time in months today. Five anglers came and fished the knock up at Slapton on a warm, still and overcast day perfect for canal fishing. It was good to see another new face Ceiron, who came and fished with us for the first time today. Numbers of baits and methods were used Maggot and pinkies with Groundbait being the most successful methods

The Canal fished well, everybody having an enjoyable day with no blank nets, which is what really matters.

Results

John Gray 7lb 13oz

Dennis Hunt 7lb 6oz (102 silvers)

Barry Roper 6lb 15oz

Naula Gray 5lb 7oz

Ceiron Galbraith 2lb 6oz

Next Wednesday we will fish ‘Away’ on the Aylesbury Arm at as a couple of our regulars are entered into the Canal Pairs match and we thought we would go and help them practice. You will need to purchase a Tring day ticket on the bank. the Nearest postcode is HP22 5AW and the venue is Bierton, and the venue is Canal Bridge 15 Bierton Lane , we will meet on the road. Meet at the bridge for 9 O’clock, fish 10 till 3 £5.00 optional pools.

You are advised to bring a weed rake and Squatt Pinkie and worm if fishing with us next week, non-members welcome, we look forward to seeing you.

Let's Fish Events

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown we have not been able to run the very popular Let's fish events this year, Finally we have some good news that events will be happening again albeit on a much more limited basis in order to comply with government guidelines and ensure the safety and wellbeing of you and our coaching team. 

Walk Ins will not be accepted and attendance is via pre booking and these must be made via Eventbrite. All equipment will be thoroughly cleaned between each session. Please see the eventbrite website at the link below for a list of all the national events including all the local ones and this is updated as more events are added. Please also keep an eye on our club faceboook page.

Luton AC has the following events planned - these may be subject to change based on ongoing risk assessments

Monday 3rd August 2020 - Grand Union Canal Three Locks

Monday 10th August 2020 - Grand Union Canal Three Locks

Monday 17th August 2020 - Grand Union Canal Three Locks

Monday 24th August 2020 - Grand Union Canal Three Locks

Friday 29th August 2020 - South Lagoon Lake, Wyboston

More details and information on how to book a place is available at 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/canal-amp-river-trust-10925146414