Here is this week’s round up of club news and catch reports received from Luton AC waters. As you’ll no doubt be aware new COVID restrictions have been imposed and we have identified that all our fisheries fall within Tier 4 – While we are pleased that fishing is still recognised as an allowed activity please follow all the government guidelines with regards to limiting your travel and keeping yourself and others safe. If you are in a tier 1,2 or 3 area you should not travel to any of our venues.
With everyone likely busy in the run up to Christmas. We have only received a couple of catch reports this week. Do send us in a report if you do get out fishing over Christmas.
South Lagoon
Filip Dunaj was on South Lagoon and had a nice Zander of 7lb 8oz which I believe is the first one we have had reported for a while.
North House Lake
Paul Parkinson fished an overnight session and caught a mirror carp of 16lb. A previous weight for this fish was recorded at 5lb 8oz in October 2017 so we are pleased to see that along with the other C3’s it has piled on the weight over the last 3 years. We have a picture of it at 5lb 8oz and it is clearly the same fish and is easily identifiable by its scale patterns.
Grand Union Canal
Dennis Hunt fished the Grand Union Canal on Sunday using up the rest of the squatt that was left over from the match on Wednesday. He caught lots of small roach at 6 metres-nothing very big but had between 2-3lb in just over 3 hours.
Wednesday Match Group
The Wednesday match group had their last outing of 2020 on Wednesday and fished at Three Locks. Hospital appointments, COVID-19 restrictions and a flooded kitchen transpired to make a lower than expected turnout today for the last match prior to Christmas. Four met in the car park early morning with the pink glimmer of dawn still in the sky and an air temperature of 8C which remained constant throughout the day, with an occasional very blustery wind.
Fishing section 4 above three locks the group walked off after the draw to their pegs. The Canal water was cold but holding good colour. All started brightly with Trevor Bunnage taking 40 small roach in the first hour before it all went pear shaped. He lost four pole rigs to a pike of about 4 to 5lb which took most of his hooked roach for the next two hours before he called it a day and went home before the rain started.
The remaining three anglers carried on in the rain and the small roach kept coming along with some gudgeon and perch. One of the perch took a piece of chopped worm that was bigger than it was! Despite using chopped worm which usually produces good results the bigger bream and perch failed to show. There was no boat traffic through the section throughout the match either. Successful baits were Punch, Pinkies and Squatt. After a tight match Chris Bartlett Howard emerged the winner by 4oz, beating Dennis Hunt into second place with Dudley Frankland in third place.
Results
1st Chris Bartlett Howard 2lb 15oz
2nd Dennis Hunt 2lb 11 oz
3rd Dudley Frankland 2lb
The group will resume their weekly Wednesday matches in the New Year so watch the Club Facebook page if you are interested in taking part.
Send in your catch reports, pictures, stories via facebook, email or Whats app to 07940 229071. We welcome content from our members whether it be videos, a story of your days fishing, pictures and reports of the fish you have caught , interesting pictures of our venues or wildlife you have seen while fishing.
That's it for now - Until next week Tight Lines!
Dave – Luton AC
Wednesday Match Group
The Wednesday match group had their last outing of 2020 on Wednesday and fished at Three Locks. Hospital appointments, COVID-19 restrictions and a flooded kitchen transpired to make a lower than expected turnout today for the last match prior to Christmas. Four met in the car park early morning with the pink glimmer of dawn still in the sky and an air temperature of 8C which remained constant throughout the day, with an occasional very blustery wind.
Fishing section 4 above three locks the group walked off after the draw to their pegs. The Canal water was cold but holding good colour. All started brightly with Trevor Bunnage taking 40 small roach in the first hour before it all went pear shaped. He lost four pole rigs to a pike of about 4 to 5lb which took most of his hooked roach for the next two hours before he called it a day and went home before the rain started.
The remaining three anglers carried on in the rain and the small roach kept coming along with some gudgeon and perch. One of the perch took a piece of chopped worm that was bigger than it was! Despite using chopped worm which usually produces good results the bigger bream and perch failed to show. There was no boat traffic through the section throughout the match either. Successful baits were Punch, Pinkies and Squatt. After a tight match Chris Bartlett Howard emerged the winner by 4oz, beating Dennis Hunt into second place with Dudley Frankland in third place.
Results
1st Chris Bartlett Howard 2lb 15oz
2nd Dennis Hunt 2lb 11 oz
3rd Dudley Frankland 2lb
The group will resume their weekly Wednesday matches in the New Year so watch the Club Facebook page if you are interested in taking part.
Finally Luton Angling Club would like to wish all its members and visitors a Happy and Healthy Christmas! Stay Safe!
Send in your catch reports, pictures, stories via facebook, email or Whats app to 07940 229071. We welcome content from our members whether it be videos, a story of your days fishing, pictures and reports of the fish you have caught , interesting pictures of our venues or wildlife you have seen while fishing.
That's it for now - Until next week Tight Lines!
Dave – Luton AC
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