Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 13th March 2022

Here is this weeks news and catch reports from Luton Angling Club. The winner of the February photo competition was Craig Mahoney with his 24lb Common Carp from Beckerings.

Send in pictures of any fish caught from Luton AC waters as they are all automatically entered into our monthly competition, It is judged at the end of each month by the Luton AC committee and its not always the biggest fish that wins so well worth sending in all your catch pictures. Pictures can be submitted via our facebook page, website or Whats App to 07940 229071.

ATTENTION CLUB MEMBERS: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 24th MARCH 2022 at 8pm
Our annual general meeting will be held at Stopsley Working Mens Club, 3 Putteridge Road, Luton, LU2 8HG on Thursday 24th March at 8pm. There is free parking on site and a bar is available. Club members are invited to attend. There is lots to discuss as we haven't been able to hold one for the last 2 years. We look forward to seeing you there. Please bring your membership book!

Close Season on Rivers
A reminder to all anglers that the traditional close season on Rivers runs from 15th March to 15th June (inclusive). This applies to all rivers including the ones we have fishing rights to. Our Canals and Still waters are open year round. 

Biddenham River Ouse
Fergal O Kane fished the River for his last time before the closed season comes into effect and managed 3 jack pike along with a few dace.

Beckerings Reservoir

Amer Jawad is loving Beckerings at the moment and had another haul of his target - 2lb+ Roach and also a huge bream which he said was great fun on the light gear he was using.

Neil Cox did a 48hr session over the weekend and managed to catch 3 nice sized carp. There was a cold south westerly wind when he arrived so he thought he would fish on the back of it. This paid off as he had a cracking mirror of 25lb and a smaller mirror at 19lb 15oz followed by a nice common at 03.30 Sunday morning at 20lb 2oz. All fish were caught on a new bait he is testing for Madbaits.

South Lagoon

Wojciech Weremij caught a nice 13lb 10oz pike yesterday at South Lagoon

Wednesday Match Report

Wednesday 9th March

How End Fishery

The Wednesday group had to change the match venue again this week, as due to the heavy rain since the start of the month we were worried about the river being unfishable. It was a shame we couldn’t get on the river at the end of the season but after speaking to our Bailiffs we decided to change and opted to go to one of the local commercial fisheries instead and decided on How End.

We had a couple of or members disappointed as they were unable to come because of illness, but 14 fished this week on what was possibly the warmest spring day of the year so far. It was great to see Simon Pavey out with us, recovering after his recent illness.

Fishing started slowly but as the day warmed more fish began to show.

Roger Baker fishing maggot on a pole took the largest perch he had ever seen in more than 60 years fishing at 3lb 8oz and couldn’t take the beaming smile off his face for the rest of the day.

Ray Burton who has only been fishing for just over a year and is recently back from holiday had a great day taking his first Tench, Barbel, and Carp, and was also made up with his catch.

Steve Lathwell had a flyer peg and took Barbel, Carp, Ide, and Skimmers to weigh 28 lb 5oz. Dave Britton weighed in 23lb 8oz for second and Simon Pavey weighed in 15lb 12oz despite breaking two very pricy pole sections, which made an expensive day.

Everyone really enjoyed the day out in great weather, and thanks must go to Phil Stone at How End for helping us change the venue at short notice and use Yasi’s’ lake this week.

We are back at this venue again in May.

Results

1st Steve Lathwell

28lb 5oz

2nd Dave Britton

23lb 8oz

3rd Simon Pavey

15lb 12oz

4th Richard Gibbs

15lb 4 oz

5th Dudley Frankland

11lb 0oz

6th Ray Burton

9lb 8oz

7th Colin Macbeth & Steve Osmond

9lb 2oz

8th Richard Darbon

8lb 14oz

9th Chris Howard

8lb 10oz

10th Roger Baker

5lb 4oz

11th Dennis Hunt

4lb 8oz

12th Tony Hickmott

3lb 5oz

13 Malcolm Ogden

2lb 12oz

Next Wednesday we will fish the GUC at Town South, draw by the White Bridge at 8.30 fish, 10.30 till 3.30 with £1.00 Luton peg fee £5.00 optional pools

That's all for this week

Tight Lines

Dave M

Luton AC