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