Beckerings Reservoir
Neil Cox fished the weekend of the 3rd and 4th October and had a couple out during his 48hr session He got a soaking on the Saturday playing an angry one. The biggest went just over 18lb he also lost a lovely dark mirror at the net.
Lee Cooke did a 48hr at Beckerings He landed this lovely 18lb 9oz common only half an hour after setting up. No cats this time but 5 slabs through the nights!! Lee said a Big thanks to Dennis for taking the pics and also the milk he left for him before he went which was much appreciated.
Amer Jawad gets very few fishing trips these days but when he does go the days are quite special! 5 bream on the feeder in just a few hours, and says the biggest fish was without doubt his biggest bream to date! He said Beckerings Reservoir is a right jewel in Bedfordshire.
Alex Dale fished Beckerings for the first time and had a 14lb pike.
Liam Murphy had an 18lb Common.
North House Lake
Mark Brookman had a nice common on the 6th October which was estimated at 20 - 21lb.
Brian Turner had a good 24hour session on North house to target the Pike He had 3 on the bank and lost a very angry jack that tail walked a good 3 metres then had enough stamina to leap about 2ft in the air it was a sight to see so he didn't mind losing it he just wishes he had it on video, fantastic to see. Young Charlie had a 5lb pike.
While Grandad Rod managed a 20lb half tail Mirror.
New Carp Stock for North House Lake
On Thursday 14th October 30 C3 Mirror Carp ranging between 8lb and 10lb 2oz were introduced to North House Lake as part of the clubs regular re-stocking program. Once again Priory Fishery Ltd provided us with some stunning looking fish. The last C3's that went in between 4 and 8lb in 2017 are now approaching 20lb so we expect these to do the same. If you do catch any of these please let us know. Pictures of all the fish can be found on the club website in the Photo Galleries - Events and Work Parties section.
South Lagoon - Wyboston
Janusz Kansik had a quick but productive overnight session on South Lagoon with 3 pike (biggest 98cm) and 2 zander - all on the same night. Great fun! Paul Webb had a plump 2lb 6oz Perch from the South Lagoon. Some good Perch have been coming out of the Lagoon recently. He also on a separate session had a 4lb 7oz Tench. Paul Sweet had an 8lb 13oz Bream.
Wojciech had a good session catching a Zander, 2 pike up to 13lb 3oz and a nice perch. A REMINDER THAT SOUTH LAGOON IS CLOSED ON SATURDAY 30/10/21 FOR OUR PREDATOR MATCH
Bailiff Brian Turner had a good clean up along with the other bailiffs Sam and Paul. Getting rid of fallen trees and cutting back foliage they also dug out new steps in some of the steepest swims this is all in a day's work for our dedicated volunteer bailiffs.
Fergal O'Kane spent the afternoon on the river at Biddenham. He caught 3 fairly similar looking small Pike in about half an hour and began to wonder if it was the same fish. He He decided to move swim for the last two hours to save catching that pike again. Fishing on till sunset and just about to call it a day, the float disappeared and this 2lb 11oz Perch ended up in the landing net.
Dudley Frankland one of the regular Wednesday match group fished Biddenham and had a good net of Roach he fished a 5 metre whip line to hand on hemp & Tares.
Eaton Ford - River Ouse
Trevor Bunnage had a nice net of fish from Peg 17
Grand Union Canal
A nice Roach caught by Alfie from the GUC at Three Locks during one of the Luton Angling Club coaching sessions. Having started fishing for the first time mid August the boys are really improving their skills with the tuition from the Luton coaches.
Dennis Hunt popped down to Slapton for about 4 hours on Friday, he had a nice bag containing 40+ roach and hybrids on Caster with a couple of skimmers for good measure, weight was an easy 6-7lb.
Wednesday Match Reports
Match Report 20.10.21 - Cooks Wharf GUC
It was great to see some new faces and welcome some old friends back when after heavy overnight rain a great turnout of 13 anglers undeterred by the weather met in a soggy car park at Cooks Wharf this week.
It was great to welcome Ash Bunnage on his first fishing trip since May, recovering now after his hospitalisation and feeling well enough to come out and fish again.
The sky when we set of was dark and menacing, but apart from a few further spots of rain during the match the promised rain held off, although it was extremely windy at times. The weather was warm and fine, the sun peeping through the clouds on occasion.
The fishing proved to be a challenge, especially for those pegged in the areas where wind affected the pegs, those in the more sheltered areas managing to get amongst the fish. Several of our anglers this week opted for the early bath and left before the end, recording a DNW.
Ash proved he hadn’t lost his touch on the canal, fishing Squatt using a pole fishing a 4X12 Chianti style float over to take a decent mixed bag of skimmers, roach and perch. Barry Roper had a generally slow match until the last hour when suddenly the roach appeared at around 4 metres, and he started to get a fish every put in.
Dudley Frankland pegged below the lock and away from the wind found fish on the pole line with a bag of perch and roach. Jim Tookey had a decent mixed bag of roach and perch, while Steve Lathwell had small roach and notably a small Chub in his bag.
Although challenging for all it was an enjoyable day out, and nobody got really wet this week!
Results
1st Ash Bunnage 5lb 7oz
2nd Dudley Frankland 4lb 5oz
3rd Jim Tookey 3lb 11oz
4th Steve Lathwell 3lb 10oz
5th Barry Roper 2lb 15oz
6th (Joint) Dennis Hint & Bart Bonito 0lb 10oz 8drm
7th Roger Baker 0lb 6oz
5 DNW
This week we will fish South Lagoon, meet on the track at the front of the lake for a 9am draw, fish 10.30 to 3.30, £5.00 optional pools, non-members welcome on payment of a day ticket
Match Report 13.10.2021 - Biddenham
Wednesday dawned a perfect autumn day, warm and slightly overcast after a mild night. The Ouse at Biddenham looked picture perfect with a slight tinge of colour, a moderate flow, and a water temperature of 10C.
The nine who were fishing drew and selected pegs, opting to fish a variety of methods, Pole, Float on rod and line and tip rods.
Dudley Frankland a fished float on rod and line to take a good net of roach, fishing hemp and tare, while Richard Gibbs fished pole with a 1,25 Gram float using caster and maggot to take his winning bag of roach and scoop the pools this week.
Chris Howard fished rod and line to take his bag on hemp and tare but found bites difficult to connect, as did Dennis Hunt fishing hemp and tare on a pole at 8 metres.
The roach appeared to be well off the bottom and moved up in the water to accept the feed, and some decent fish were taken in a number of the anglers nets.
Roger (the boy) Baker fishing rod and line had ‘one of those days’ getting smashed three times, hooking a pike and loosing a big roach at the net, we all have those days sometimes, better luck next week Roger.
All those who fished enjoyed a fantastic, although at times frustrating day on the bank in great company.
Results
1st Richard Gibbs 7lb 4oz
2nd Dudley (I can’t fish rivers) Frankland 5lb 4oz
3rd Chris Howard 5lb 2oz
4th Dennis Hunt 3lb 0oz
5th Barry Roper 2lb 9oz
6th Steve Lathwell 2lb 4oz
7th Malcolm Ogden 15oz
Roger Baker & Ray Burton DNW
Match Report 6.10.2021 - Town South
Wednesday’s match at Town South was not without incident this week! Twelve anglers met to fish by the white bridge on a perfect autumn morning, with an air temperature of 8C, rising to 18C during the day. The canal was well coloured but after the recent heavy cold rain the water temperature struggled to meet 10C, which coupled with the recent pressure changes meant the anglers were always going to struggle.
After getting to our pegs and starting to set up a sudden gust of wind blew the No 5 section of Dudley Frankland’s Daiwa Airity whip off the roost and into the canal.
After some unsuccessful dredging with our landing nets we were treated to the sight of Dudley stripping off and preparing to enter the canal (see photo) before he thought better of it after realising how cold the water actually was.
A couple of kind locals brought Dudley a long-handled rake later, but despite extensive searching the missing section could not be located and wasn’t retrieved.
Dave Abbott joining us for the first time hooked an extremely large fish at about 3pm, which he played for about 40 minutes before eventually losing it, stopping the Canal in the process as the boaters wanted to see him land the fish, which had been staying very deep and going around in circles stirring up the silt.
Dave’s bait had been double maggot over chopped worm.
Others had varying degrees of success, Steve Lathwell fished red worm tipped with Pinkies over groundbait, to take Skimmers while Tim Watts was looking for the roach, using Squatt and hemp, but they didn’t really show. Chris Howard took a nice net of bream, Hybrids and Perch to win with 8lb 4oz.
Results
1st Chris Howard 8lb 4oz
2nd Tim Watts 4lb 7oz 8Dr
3rd Richard Gibbs 4lb 4oz
4th Steve Lathwell 3lb 12oz
5th Bart Bonito 2lb 7oz
6th (joint) Barry Roper & Dave Abbott) 1lb 7oz
7th Roger Baker 14oz
8th (Joint) Dennis Hunt & Ray Burton
Dudley Frankland DNW
Junior and Cadet Match Report Slapton Sunday 10th October 2021Sunday dawned with heavy drizzle, but this soon cleared to become a beautiful autumn day, warm still, and slightly overcast, ideal for the competitors in the first Luton Junior / Cadet interclub match to be fished on the cut for years.
Luton, Northampton Nene, and Wellingborough all had teams competing at Slapton with the four Cadets (age 7-10) pegged to the right of the bridge and the Juniors (age 11 to 16) pegged from the first rushes back towards the lock. Thanks to the generosity of our Sensas sponsorship all the competitors received a complimentary bag of Sensas groundbait.
The match started at 11.30 and was fished to CRT rules which limit distance to 3 Metres for the first hour and 11 Metres thereafter, with the Cadet match lasting 2 ½ hours and the Juniors fishing 3 ½. The experience in the field varied, some anglers who had come through the ‘Lets Fish’ program having only started fishing in August!
All the competitors started well with plenty of fish showing from the off in all sections with floats regularly dipping to indicate bites. In the Cadet section it was a close race between Lottie Clark of Northampton Nene and Hugo Hall of Luton, the youngest competitor at just 7.
The battle was eventually won by Lottie who despite losing a bonus Perch weighed in exactly 1Kilo for first place to best Hugo with 870 gram for second. Lottie was also awarded the most promising cadet award by John Ellis National Fisheries manager of CRT.
The Juniors were fishing pairs as well as an individual match with two Luton Pairs, one from Wellingborough and a Luton and Northampton combination competing.
All stated well and plenty of fish were caught with bread punch, pinkies and worm taking most fish, again it was a close match which ebbed and flowed, Max Owen of Nene the individual winner taking A section with 1Kilo 520 grm and James Oakes of Luton triumphing in B section with 1Kilo 400 grm and taking the most promising Angler award, again presented by John Ellis.
The Junior Pairs title was taken by Louise Connor and Max Owen of Wellingborough, with James Oakes and Alex Lamont second.
Extremely well done to all the young competitors and parents who took part, and all the coaches from Luton, Wellingborough, and Northampton whose hard work made the day possible.
All the competitors and parents present really enjoyed themselves and thought it was a great day, and wanted to do it again next year, so the match will be fished annually on the second Sunday in October hosted by Luton.
Next year we hope to have even more Clubs and competitors taking part.
Do you have a young angler wanting to take part? If so, why not contact the clubs about our ‘Lets Fish’ and coaching sessions.
Results
Cadets
1st Lottie Clark
NNAC
1Kilo
2nd Hugo Hall
Luton
870grm
3rd Dylan Feasey
WDNAC
600grm
4th Cody Johnson
NNAC
600grm
Juniors
1st Max Owen
WDNAC
1Kilo 520grm
2nd James Oakes
Luton
1Kilo 440grm
3rd Louise Connor
WDNAC
1Kilo 280grm
4th Sam Chamberlain
Luton
1Kilo 120grm
5th Harvey Ryan
Luton
990grm
6th Alex Lamont
WDNAC
720grm
7th Charlie Hawkes
Luton
620grm
8th Alfie Hawkes
Luton
430grm
Pairs
1st Louise / Max
WDNAC
2nd James / Alex
Luton / WDNAC
3rd Sam / Harvey
Luton
4th Alfie / Charlie
Luton
