Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 6th March 2022

Here is all this week's news and catch reports from Luton Angling Club. Please send in your catch reports from Luton AC waters via our social media pages, Upload via our website or send pictures via WhatsApp to 07940 229071. Remember all catch photos submitted are automatically entered into our monthly photo competition and the winner is chosen at the end of each month by the Luton AC committee. February's winner will be announced in the next few days.

Beckerings Reservoir

We were blown away by the report from Amer Jawad this week, Amer has been fishing for 40 years and remembers his first fish as if it was yesterday, That fish was a magical little Roach. His trip this week was as equally memorable as he managed to catch some superb roach and certainly three of the biggest we have had reported from the reservoir with a combined weight of almost 9lb!! The biggest fish was 3lb 4oz, then 3lb 1oz and the smallest of the three 2lb 10oz. The smallest one on the mat was 2lb. Totally amazing!

Towards the end of March it will be necessary for us to close the reservoir for Day and Night Fishing for around a week. This is to allow for some maintenance work to be carried out around the reservoir by an external contractor. We will announce the closure date as soon as we have a confirmed start date for the work. 

 

It is likely that we will not accept any night bookings between 21/03/22 and 01/04/22 and the venue will be closed for a period during this timeframe the dates and duration may change depending on weather and the progress of the works. The gate will be locked for the duration of the works and members are asked not to access the venue while it is closed.

 

We will obviously monitor progress of the work and will re-open the lake as soon as we can.

North House Lake

Brian Turner and Barry Emery fished a 24 hour session at North House on Monday Brian lost a fish and Barry had a screaming run which didn't connect during the night. It did not stop raining once during their session. Following a recent Angling trust presentation online recently on Tuesday members of the committee met with Jake Davoile who is a fisheries management adviser for the angling trust to walk round and assess the otter fence. Jake has given us some recommendations for some small but needed improvements which we will carry out as soon as possible to ensure the best possible level of protection

Brian Turner also informed me that some of the 30 carp that were introduced to the lake in November are now starting to get caught. If you do catch any of these please send in the weight and pictures so we are able to monitor their progress.

South Lagoon Wyboston

Mark Brooks and Myself along with Bailiff Brian Turner continued the work to remove the fallen tree in Peg 18. Armed with waders and a new winching cable we managed to remove the large section of tree from the water. The peg is now completely clear.

Match Report, Wednesday 2nd March GUC Cooks Wharf

The Wednesday group had to change the match venue this week and fished at Cooks Wharf. Twelve anglers met to fish in the car park for our draw on what was a cold, dank morning with drizzle in the air. We drew and set off down a very muddy towpath and navigated the obstacle of the towpath under bridge 125 the main west coast rail line. The state of the towpath here has been reported to CRT again as its far short of expected standards, and the worst towpath on any Luton section.

The Canal was extremely full and the water cold, with a deep chocolate colour after the recent rain, initially the surface being glass calm. Those pegged in the cutting before the swing bridge narrows also had to contend with floating debris from the recent storms, which because we only had one boat movement all day didn’t move very far. As we started to fish the wind increased a little and soon the heavier drizzle started. It was defiantly going to be a hard day with anglers fishing for bites, which were at a premium. Around midday the heavier rain started to fall making conditions even more challenging.

The currently in form Dudley Frankland started by feeding liquidised bread and followed up with a piece of punch which was taken first drop by a bream. This was followed by a bream and a perch during the day, for Dudley to take first place with 3lb 8oz. Terry Vickers fished a waggler baited with double pinkie to take a nice perch of 2lb 4oz.

Richard Darbon managed to find a few fish for 1lb 5oz. Dennis Hunt had one roach for 4 oz which took a Pinkie on a size 24 fine wire hook taken just as the water started to move before the boat went through.

Lee Newson takes the prize for the greatest number of fish caught on the day. Using a 0.1 Gram float and size 26 hook and single Squatt he managed 20 blade roach for 3oz, truly fine fishing to avoid DNW.
Results

1st Dudley Frankland 3lb 8oz
2nd Terry Vickers 2lb 4oz
3rd Richard Darbon 1lb 5ox
4th Steve Lathwell 5oz
5th Dennis Hunt 4oz
6th Lee Newson 3oz

Malcolm Ogden, Tony Hickmott, Dave Britton, Steve Osmond, Roger Baker and Barry Roper DNW

Next Wednesday we have again had to change venue as unfortunately we don’t believe the river will be fishable and we are now going to fish Yasis’ Lake at How End https://www.howendfisheries.co.uk and have 17 pegs available so notification of attendance is essential to avoid disappointment.

You must adhere to fishery rules on bait and nets. Fishery gates open at 8, draw at 8.30 cost is £8.00 peg, fish 10 till 3 with £1.00 Luton peg fee £5.00 optional pool

Club AGM

If you are a club member - Don't forget the club Annual General meeting will be held at Stopsley Working Mens Club, 3 Putteridge Road, Luton, LU2 8HG on Thursday 24th March 2022 from 8pm, Car Parking is available and there is also a bar.

We are also intending to provide some crisps, sandwiches and cakes for those that attend.We have not held an AGM since 2019 due to COVID-19 so there is a lot to catch up on. We hope club members are able to attend. Please remember to bring your membership book as it is required for you to be able to vote.

That's all for this week please keep sending in your catch reports.

Tight Lines

Dave

Luton AC