Here is a round up of all this week's news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club. We have had quite a few catch reports come in this week from all our venues which is great to see.
Monthly Photo Competition - June 2022
June 2022's winner is Junior Dexter Allen with his PB Bream from Beckerings. All pictures sent in are automatically entered and one will be chosen to win the £25.00 prize each month. Send in your pictures via email, the club website or our social media pages.
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| Dexter Allen 7lb 8oz PB Bream |
North House Lake
Harry Hart had a nice 21lb 1oz leather carp.
Beckerings Reservoir
Daniel Lynch had one of the Beckerings Cats at just over 47lb hes fairly certain its the same one he caught last month.
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| Dan Lynch Beckerings Catfish |
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| Dan Lynch Beckerings Catfish |
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| Dan Lynch Catfish Weight |
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| Harley Lynch PB Beckerings Bream |
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| Harley Lynch PB Beckerings Bream |
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| Steve Holt - Beckerings Common |
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| Steve Holt - Beckerings Mirror |
Duncan Pettican's first visit to Beckerings went well. He had a mirror of 17lb and a common of 18lb 12oz both were lovely clean fish. The little red wound on the flank of the mirror was treated before it was returned and also the hook hold on the commons mouth was also treated.
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| Duncan Pettican - Beckerings Common |
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| Duncan Pettican - Beckerings Mirror |
Carlo Borromeo had a great overnighter catching Commons of 24lb and 19lb 3oz and also a Mirror of 24lb.
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| Carlo Borromeo 19lb 3oz Common |
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| Carlo Borromeo 24lb Mirror |
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| Carlo Borromeo 24lb Common |
Steve Bennett had a nice Mirror on his first ever visit to the reservoir.
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| Steve Bennett - Beckerings Mirror |
Wyboston River Ouse
Darren Savage had a good start to his River season catching a good sized Perch.
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| Darren Savage - River Ouse Perch |
Baits were Giant hemp for the hook, hinders Chinese hemp for feed , Natural Tares , Blackened Tares and Urid beans , I actually caught on all baits , the better roach he had on Blackened Tares and one on Urid Bean. All in all an enjoyable couple of hours.
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| Wyboston Roach |
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| Wyboston Roach |
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| Wyboston Roach |
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| Hemp and Tares |
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| Wyboston Roach |
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| Wyboston Roach |
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| Nobby's Swim |
After the match had finished on the River at Wyboston on Sunday Brian Turner decided to have a go and following advice from the roach hunter Nobby Clark and watching him work his magic the day before helped him catch a lovely bag of roach and chublets
He had about 30/35 fish in all on Tares and loose feeding hemp, not too shabby for about three hours fishing and he's definitely going to do more..
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| Brian Turners Roach |
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| Brian Turners Swim |
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| Brian Turner Roach |
Beckerings Work Party
A mini work party was held Tuesday evening A work party was carried out this evening on Beckerings to rake out some of the marginal weed in front of the platforms to enable safe landing of fish. The weed removed was carefully checked for any small fish. We were pleased to see some tiny Tench and Pike.
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| Baby Pike in Beckerings |
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| Baby Tench in Beckerings |
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| Weed Raking in Progress |
Thanks to Mark Sessions, Rob Thomas, Colin Holmes, Jack Rose, Barry Stevenson and new work party volunteer David Nicholson for helping out
You'll see from some of the pics the water levels are getting low due to irrigation pumping and are now at that awkward point. Please be very careful when landing fish as the banks can be slippery until they have dried out. Once the water drops a little further it will be possible to set up in front of the platforms.
Biddenham - Chairmans Shield Match - Sun 3rd July
It was a rather disappointing turnout for the Annual Committee, Officers and Volunteers match at Biddenham today as only 6 fished, the lowest number for several years. Given the weights recorded earlier in the week from the lower numbered pegs we opted to fish the higher numbered pegs from 30 up where there is noticeably more flow.
The day started with heavy overcast and most caught well for the first hour, and the fishing got noticeably harder when it cleared, before more heavy overcast threatening rain appeared, only to clear again later. The wind was at times quite strong and veered downstream during the match.
Winner was Dennis Hunt who fished a whip at between 6 and 7.5 metres into about 8 ft of water in the flow.
Dennis used maggot as bait feeding maggot and hemp through a bait dropper to try and keep the fish down, taking a good mixed bag for 3lb 14oz. Colin Holmes took second place fishing feeder and float setups, weighing 2lb 1 oz. Dave Murdoch was 3rd with a mixed bag for 1lb 14oz
Results
1st Dennis Hunt 3lb 14oz
2nd Colin Holmes 2lb 1oz
3rd Dave Murdoch 1lb 14oz
4th Dennis Vivian 1lb 8oz
5th Fergal O’Kane 1lb 5 oz
6th Mark Sessions 13oz
All who fished enjoyed the day and it was great to catch up with old friends, and let’s hope for a better turnout next year
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| Dennis Hunt 3lb 14oz |
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| Dennis Hunt's Winning Catch |
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| Dave Murdoch 1lb 14oz |
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| Fergal O'Kane 1lb 5oz |
Three of our fast-improving Luton Junior anglers, Charlie, Alfie and Cody, and newcomer Devon, were able to join the Club coaches on the canal at Three Locks on Saturday. Our session this week was an informal practice match in preparation for the CRT Commonwealth games ‘Regional’ match to be held at Three Locks next weekend. Other members were not able to attend this week due to family commitments and holidays.
The weather was warm and muggy, with an overcast threatening rain, and the water holding good colour. Our match was two and a half hours, boat traffic was minimal, and the lads were limited to 3 Metres for the first hour.
After setting up and introducing some groundbait and pinkies, good fish came to the net, with two big Perch and a decent Bream taken, along with lots of smaller fish, other baits were tried but pinkie or double pinkies proved the most successful. All of the lads showed some good skills playing and landing their own fish.
All our Luton Lads enjoyed the afternoon, and we are sure they will all do well in the match next weekend
Results
1st Charlie Hawkes 3.9 lbs
2nd Cody Partridge 2.8lbs
3rd Devon Golder 2.4lbs
4th Alfie Hawkes 0.97 lbs
Very well done everyone.
If any others want to join us please message the club.
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| Luton Juniors |
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| Luton Juniors |
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| Luton Juniors |
SENSAS Oakwood Summer Canal League - Round 1 Results
The first of 6 rounds round of the Oakwood summer canal league was held at the weekend, with a further rounds to follow at two-week intervals. This year there are seven teams competing.
This round was fished on the northern sections of our GUC waters. Braggenham Side & the Three Locks area. The weather on the day was warm, and at times sunny.
The League reports a fair match that fished evenly along the sections used. While the weights were not huge there were a lot of smaller fish caught. The bigger bream seemed to switch off after the first hour and the overall winning angler this week was James Drakulic (Image Red) He took a very nice hybrid Roach / Bream and continued to catch the smaller fish feeding squatt over groundbait for 12lbs. James Lewis (Colmic Borland Northants) had 10lb 8oz skimmers and in Joint third Chris Howard and Ian Wing, (both of Barts) with 10lb 7oz. A total of 35 anglers fished taking a total of 201lbs 7oz during the match
Team positions after Round 1 are:
1st Image Red
2nd Colmic Borland Northants
3rd (Joint) Oakwood Green & Image Blue
5th Oakwood Purples
6th Barts
7th Oakwood Black
Well done to the Luton Anglers in the competition especially Chris Howard for joint 3rd
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| James Drakulic - Image Red |
Match Report, Wednesday 29th June Biddenham River Ouse
We were all looking forward to our first Biddenham match of the season when 15 of us met this week. The morning temperature was 18C and the sky overcast and grey, threatening rain to start. The grey cloud lifted and then became an ominous grey with some rain spots at lunchtime before lifting again and becoming a nice sunny afternoon.
It's early season, the river is clear, with a midday water temperature of 19.5C recorded and has a slow pull. It really hasn’t woken up yet and could do with some rain to produce a flush of water to freshen it up and improve the fishing. We fished swims 4 to 20, leaving out those with weed, and the fishing may improve with a longer walk to the higher number swims where there is more flow.
First place this week was taken by Steve Lathwell with 2lb 13oz. Steve started at 13 meters on his pole using a 1.5 gram float fishing maggots, but contacted bleak rather than the desired roach. He changed to 6 metre line on the whip, but still caught bleak on maggot, so he changed to hemp and caster and had small chub and yet more bleak! He then opted to change again to 4-metre whip and maggots for the bleak to try and put a weight together.
Dennis Hunt was second with 2lb 6oz fishing a whip at 7.5 / 9 mtrs. He fed several hard balls of groundbait at the start, putting maggot on the bottom with a bait dropper. He was fishing maggot on a 1.5 gram float rig, and loose feeding hemp to take a mixed bag of bleak, roach, chub, and perch.
Joint third with 2lb 2oz were Richard Gibbs and Ash Bunnage. Ash had initially balled in groundbait in the inside, and after failing to get a decent run of fish opted to fish a waggler over. Richard Gibbs had decided to go for the perch at 6 /7 mtrs and try for roach at 10/11 mtrs. The perch failed to show, and the hemp and caster line didn’t produce either, so he switched to maggot on the long pole line to pick up a few fish.
The weights were low today, the river isn’t yet in great form and sport will pick up when the roach begin to take the hemp and tare in the lower number swims.
Many thanks to all the bailiffs who have done a great job preparing the swims, and those who helped organising the draw and weighing in this week, we all enjoyed our first Biddenham trip of the season and will be back.
Results
1st Steve Lathwell 2lb 13oz
2nd Dennis Hunt 2lb 6oz
3rd (Joint) Richard Gibbs & Ash Bunnage 2lb 2oz
5th Richard Darbon 1lb 3oz
6th Roger Baker 1lb
8th Ray Burton 14oz
9th Les Burton with 9.5oz
10th (Joint) Terry Vickers & Barry Roper 10oz
11th (Joint) Dudley Frankland & John Barton 8oz
13th Steve Osborn 4oz
14th Malcolm Ogden 3oz
Tony Hickmot DNW
Next Wednesday we will fish Beckerings, so we will be members only, Draw at 8.30 fish, 10.30 till 3.30 with £1.00 Luton peg fee £5.00 optional pools
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| Steve Lathwell 2lb 13oz |
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| Dennis Hunt 2lb 6oz |
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| Ash Bunnage 2lb 2oz |
Let's Fish
On Sunday Luton Angling Club held a Lets Fish session on the club's section of the Grand Union Canal at Slapton. The weather was warm but it was windy and quite strong gusts at times. The boat traffic was minimal and the water was coloured.
All the participants caught many fish including the usual suspects of roach, bream, skimmers and perch. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience on the day and several of the youngsters asked their parents to book another session as they enjoyed it so much. A follow-on session is planned for this coming Saturday (2nd July) on the canal at Three Locks where some of our more experienced juniors attend to improve their angling skills, Most of these youngsters first taste of fishing was at one of our Let's Fish Events.
If you know someone who might like to come and have a go and learn how to fish check out the canal and river trust "Let's Fish" webpage to find an event near you.
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| Coach Mark Brooks with one of the Let's fish participants |
South Lagoon
No fish, but Dennis Pratley got a rare visit from a kingfisher whilst fishing South lagoon what a great picture.
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| Kingfisher at South Lagoon |
Please keep sending in your catch reports no matter how insignificant you think they are, We love to see how our venues are performing (and that they are being used!). All pictures sent in of your catches from Luton AC waters are automatically entered in to our monthly photo competition that is judged by the committee. Its not always the biggest fish that wins so well worth sending in your pictures and reports via facebook, instagram the club website or via Whats App to 07940 229071.
Tight Lines until next week.
Dave M
Luton AC
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