Here is all this weeks catch reports, news and information from Luton Angling Club.
Youngster Dexter Allen won our monthly photo competition last month and he spent his £25 prize wisely on a new reel, A prologic element bf 4000. A bargain at £25 reduced from £75 (mid season sale). Eager to try it out he went to grove marina with dad Edward and had plenty of good roach, skimmers and a rare gudgeon.The fish were caught on corn and feeder, they also had endless bites on pinkie. Most of the fish caught were very small but he had great fun none the less. All pictures sent in of catches from Luton AC waters are automatically entered into the monthly competition.
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| Dexter Allen with his new reel |
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| Dexter Allen with a Bream caught with his new reel |
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| Dexter Allen with a Gudgeon caught with his new reel |
North House Lake
Paul Parkinson did 24 hours on North House Lake and had a carp and a tench we are not sure of the weights as he didn’t weigh them. The carp was stockie number 8 which we stocked in October 2021 at a weight of 9lb 7oz. It definitely looks like its put on a pound or two.
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| Paul Parkinson - North House Mirror (Stockie 8) |
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| Stockie 8 at 9lb 7oz in October 2021 |
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| Paul Parkinson - North House Tench |
Carlo had a nice overnighter on north house. He hadn't been down there for quite a while. He had a common of 19lb 6oz and a Mirror of 23lb possibly number 10 of the 2017 stockies.
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| Carlo - North House Common |
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| Carlo - North House Mirror |
Beckerings Reservoir
Water levels are very low due to the irrigation pumping though this hasn't as usual really affected the fishing. Members are reminded that they should minimise the amount of bait being used while the levels are low to prevent any water quality issues. Also bear in mind the banks can be quite slippery so extreme care must be taken.
Paul Sweet had 2 fish last weekend one common at 16lb and the other a mirror of 21lb.
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| Paul Sweet - 16lb Common |
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| Paul Sweet - 21lb Mirror |
Tim Marler had 2 carp on Monday one was a 17lb 12oz common and the other a 23lb 12oz mirror.
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| Tim Marler 17lb 12oz - Beckerings |
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| Tim Marler 23lb 12oz - Beckerings |
Craig Mahoney had 4 Carp during an overnighter on Sunday. The biggest one was 17lb 8oz.
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| Craig Mahoney - Beckerings |
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| Craig Mahoney - Beckerings |
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| Craig Mahoney - Beckerings |
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| Craig Mahoney - Beckerings |
Steve Emery had a quick 3hr session and had the carp known as "the pre-historic" at 25lbs, It was caught off the top.
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| Steve Emery - 25lb Beckerings |
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| Steve Emery - 25lb Beckerings |
Bill Ridgway set out on a mission to catch a tench on Tuesday, It was mission accomplished as he had one which just made 4lb. He also had some bream the best being the one pictured here along with 5 others 6 to 8 lbs
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| Bill R - Beckerings |
It's nice to see the Tench making a bit of a comeback in Beckerings with 4 being caught on Wednesday by different anglers. The one here was caught by bailiff Mark Sessions (the one in the net 
). We also discovered several small Tench when we carried out some weed removal a while back.
). We also discovered several small Tench when we carried out some weed removal a while back.
On Sunday, Robbie Sweet had a nice common using a white foam zig.
Biddenham River Ouse
Nobby Clarke fished Biddenham today from 1.30 until 6.30pm , the roach were well up for it today. He fished an 8 mtr whip with a 7 mtr rig , started at close to full depth, but it was very slow so he started coming up until bites were had.
He ended up at about 1&1/2 mtr with giant hemp on the hook then onto tares and they went mad.
He dropped as many as he caught as they were just holding the seed. He changed hook size up to a 14 wide gape fine wire Tubbitini spade and started catching more.
Feeding was a constant 4 grains of small chinese hemp from hinders which is a superb feed hemp.
He also had skimmers and a few chublets. After reading the match report from Wednesday he was in two minds whether to give Biddenham a miss but pleased he didn’t. Here’s a few photos.
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| Nobby Clarke - Biddenham Roach |
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| Nobby Clarke - Biddenham Roach |
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| Nobby Clarke - Biddenham Roach |
Mick Bell also had a few fish on Thursday including a couple of slim 10 inch Chub the rest of his catchg made up of Chublets and Bleak using sweetcorn at 5 metres. He used his old faithful 40 year old silstar whip and said it was a nice day on a lively bit of water.
Match Report, Wednesday 27th July Biddenham.
15 anglers met in the car park at Biddenham this week, and with the keepnet restrictions removed our Wednesday match could go ahead as normal.
It was a light overcast early, and after a cooler night the morning temperature was hovering at 18C. The temperature increased slightly during the day to 21C and the sun came out, and conditions became lighter, and then the wind picked up and the sky became a heavy overcast, which seemed to threaten heavy rain which didn’t appear.
The river had some colour and a very slow flow, but desperately needs some rain to freshen it up.
Most anglers struggled this week in these conditions, and weights were not high, with the venue roach extremely reluctant to show themselves, despite the ‘Favourite’ roach baits of Caster, Hemp and Tare being tried by many anglers.
Richard Gibbs decided that he would go for broke with the bleak, using his newly purchased Benwick Angling ‘Silverlight’ bleak floats and fished a 3.5m whip to take 90 fish in first hour, using maggot hookbait. After the first hour he looked for better stamp hemp and tare roach at 10m on the long pole, but no bites were forthcoming, so he switched back to the 3.5m whip but this line was also slow, so he went on 5m whip line and continued catching bleak and small chub, with a couple of slightly larger chub of 6/7 ounces.
During the 5 hours he fed around a pint and a half of maggots to take 278 fish in total for 5lb 15oz
Results
1st Richard Gibbs 5lb 15oz
2nd Steve Lathwell 3lb 3oz
3rd (Joint) Dave Britton & Dave Ridley 2lb 14oz
5th Ash Bunnage 2lb 7oz
6th Ray Burton 2lb 4oz
7th Malcolm Ogden 1lb 15oz
8th Les Burton 1lb 14oz
9th Dudley Frankland 1lb 7oz
10th Richard Darbon 1lb 4oz
11th Andy Norgate 1lb 4oz
12th Dennis Hunt 1lb
13th Brian Shaw 14oz
14th Roger Baker 3oz
Next week we have a change of venue.
We were originally going to be at South Lagoon, but due to the ‘in progress’ swim refurbishment works there we have arranged to fish Danni’s Lake at How End.
Pre Booking your attendance here will be essential.
Meet from 8am at How End, Venue peg fee, £5.00 pools and £1.00 Luton peg fee.
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| Wednesday Match |
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| Wednesday Match |
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| Wednesday Match - Richard Gibbs |
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| Wednesday Match - Ray Burton |
WYBOSTON SWIM IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
We met the tree contractors at 8-45am at South Lagoon on Monday morning for the start of the swim refurbishment project and had a fantastically productive day with loads achieved.
Our initial plan was to carry out the following work, removing or pollarding dangerous trees from around the lake:
The removal of 2 Dead willow trees in Peg 25
Pollard the leaning willow in Peg 17
Pollard the leaning willow in Peg 19
Pollard the leaning willow in Peg 15
All debris was to be removed, and the worksite left clean and tidy.
The guys worked solidly from the time they arrived until just after 4pm using a 3-tonne digger with specialist attachments and a very large chipper capable of rendering 200mm (8 inch) dia branches into wood chips. The wood chips produced have been stored for use surfacing tracks adjacent to the Lagoon.
In addition to the planned work, we also managed to remove the dead fallen willow from the lake, and remove the huge fallen tree by peg 7 in the river, allowing us to reinstate peg 6.
None of this work would have been possible without the skills and equipment the contractors brought, this work being on too large a scale for Club members and bailiffs to tackle.
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| Wyboston Tree Works |
NORTH HOUSE WORK PARTY 13th & 14th August
We will be carrying out work to the otter fence on the weekend of 13th 14th August. Installing an additional buried metal skirt on the inside of the fence to prevent the rabbits digging out under the skirt from the inside and breaching the integrity of the fence.
The lake will be closed on both days.
Night Bookings on 12th, 13th & 14th August at North House
The 8 night booking places on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th are only available to those helping out at the work party during the day on both the Saturday and Sunday - As a one off and incentive those helping out can fish both Friday 12th and Saturday night 13th together (not usually permitted)
Book on in the usual way and mention you'll be helping out on the work party.
Anyone not helping at the work party who wishes to book on fish the Sunday night 14th should not arrive at the lake until 5pm unless helping with the work party (you can setup as soon as we finish work)
Although most of the work will be carried out using a digger please bring spades and shovels as we will need to dig around the posts manually.
That is about all for this week. If you would like to send us a catch report from a Luton AC Water you can send reports and pictures via our facebook page and other social media accounts, the club website or via what’s app message to 07940 229071. Don’t forget every picture we receive is automatically entered in to our monthly photo prize which is judged by the committee and you could win £25.00. It’s not always the biggest fish that wins so well worth sending in any of your catch reports.
Tight Lines Until Next Week!
Dave M
Luton AC
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