Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area

Here is all of this week's news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club. If you want to send in your pictures and catch reports you can what's app them to 07940 229071 or send in to us via the club website or our social media pages.

South Lagoon - Wyboston

Wojciech fished the South Lagoon and had the same Pike twice during his 24hr session it was 100cm long.

Wojciech with a 100cm South Lagoon Pike

Wojciech with a 100cm South Lagoon Pike caught for the second time.

North House Lake - Wyboston

Sean Watts had two Common Carp the weights were 24lb 15oz and 16lb 3oz

Sean Watts - 24lb 15oz North House Common

Sean Watts - 16lb 3oz North House Common

Wyboston - River Ouse

Fishing the River on the swims just past North House Lake, Paul Dunnett caught a nice fat Perch. It was taken on worm and although not weighed he estimated that it must have been getting on for the 3lb mark.

Paul Dunnett - Perch from the Ouse at Wyboston

Beckerings Reservoir

Edward Allen and son Dexter spent the day lure fishing at Beckerings this week and tried a good mix of lures to keep the perch interested.

Edward had 2 better perch, with one on a spinner and one on a pike lure that was half the size of the perch! but most were hand sized. All good fun though. He also had a Jack (pictured) on a 5" surface lure. Dexter had a larger pike slip the hook on the same lure.

Edward Allen with a Beckerings Jack Pike.

Sean Watts had a 20lb 15oz Mirror last weekend.

Sean Watts - Beckerings Mirror Carp 20lb 15oz

Paul Parkinson went to Beckerings last Saturday and Sunday for a 48 hour session and had a 20lb 3oz Mirror (Picture is not that good as he was on his own on the lake). He also had a small pike on a lure.

Paul Parkinson - Beckerings Pike

Paul Parkinson - Beckerings Mirror Carp

Catalin Ionel Popescu had a 17lb 5oz Mirror, a 15lb Common and a 9lb Bream.

Catalin Ionel Popescu - 9lb Beckerings Bream

Catalin Ionel Popescu - 17lb 5oz Beckerings Mirror

Catalin Ionel Popescu - 15lb Beckerings Common

Bailiff Rob Thomas had one of the new carp that were stocked on 26th October. The fish Rob caught is number 30 and he's named it "The Corporal" as it has two stripes on its shoulder. The other bailiffs have reported that members have been catching some of the other new carp which is great news and looks like they are settling in well.

Bailiff Rob - Stockie Number 30 "The Corporal"

Bailiff Rob - Stockie Number 30 "The Corporal"

Bailiff Rob - Stockie Number 30 "The Corporal"

Eaton Ford - River Ouse

Nobby Clarke a regular visitor to our River stretches, fished Eaton Ford with fellow member Geoff Cunliffe on Saturday. It was Geoff’s first visit to the venue and he fished peg 4. Nobby went in peg 2. It was raining when they arrived and it became steadily heavier for several hours.

Geoff had a mixed bag of decent Perch, Roach, Dace and Chublets while Nobby had around 20 Roach but sadly none of the bigger residents and no Bream. The river had good colour and great flow, Geoff fished the tip and Nobby fished a 2grm stick float, 17ft Rod with centrepin reel in about 10ft of water. Hemp was the main bait and feed , Nobby also caught a few on wheat and a couple on corn. They packed up about 2pm and still the rain came down and the wind gained momentum , the couple of photos he took are not the best so are not included but with the poor weather conditions he just wanted to get the net out and fish back.

Coaching & Let's Fish Updates

Belle Cording contacted us to say thanks for a fantastic fishing lesson for youngster Kaiya after they attended the free let's fish session at Canal Fields, Berkhamsted on 27th October. Belle said that Richard Gibbs was a fantastic coach and Kaiya really enjoyed herself again.

These free sessions have encouraged several youngsters into the sport and our Kingfisher Junior section is now building nicely due to the efforts of the Club coaches successfully recruiting at the Let's Fish taster sessions, and we have had a lot of success at recent CRT Celebration and Commonwealth games events with Cadet, Junior and Youth categories

We have now started our winter monthly off bank teaching sessions at Bushmead community centre on Saturday afternoons.

If anyone has young Anglers from age 7 up wanting to join us please contact the Club for more information.

Kaiya at the Lets Fish Event

Kaiya at the Lets Fish Event

Kaiya at the Lets Fish Event

Kaiya at the Lets Fish Event

Amazing Generosity from Local Match Anglers - A Generous Tackle Donation

The Luton Coaching team had a lovely surprise on Thursday night this week when Charlie Robinson made a delivery of tackle donated by local match anglers to support our work coaching the Luton juniors. We couldn’t believe what he brought!

A very big and public thank you is due from the Club, the coaching team, and our young anglers to Charlie Robinson, Olly Tilley, Matt Herbert, Steve Barnett and Alan Donnelly for their extremely generous donations, which included luggage, reels, whips, nets, rods, clothing, and a couple of lovely poles.

We will ensure the tackle is put to good use supporting our young anglers it is a fantastic gesture from you all, Thank you!!

Donated Tackle

Donated Tackle

Donated Tackle

Donated Tackle

Club Coaching Volunteer Opportunities.

There has been considerable interest about the Coaching Luton AC provide and we have recently had several enquiries from people interested in getting involved.

Should anyone be interested in Coaching and would like to find out about joining our team we would love to hear from you.

We need committed people who are good team players, good communicators and have angling experience. You would need to be DBS checked as part of the qualification for working with Children and Vulnerable adults.

We are a CRT ‘Premier’ Club and are expected to deliver ‘Lets Fish’ taster sessions to high standards both at weekends and school holidays and provide a follow-on coaching pathway for those who want to continue to learn after the initial ‘Lets Fish’ session.

These Club follow-on sessions are usually done on Saturday afternoons and aim to enable our students to be able to fish competently on their own, using several methods, and to compete in some organised competitions leading to the CRT Celebration held in September each year on the Shropshire Union. We also hold once a month ‘Off Bank sessions’ October to March on a Saturday afternoon.

While we already have some volunteers helping us run these events, the expectation is you would commit to gain at the minimum a Level 1 Support Coach angling coaching license qualification, which could be subject to a small bursary, and we would encourage L1 Coaches to continue and take L2 Lead Coach Qualifications which would enable you to run events yourself on the bank.

More information can be found here

https://anglingtrust.net/get-involved/coaching/level-1/

We would encourage anyone who is interested in becoming a volunteer Coach to contact the Club for further information, it can be a very rewarding experience.

The more coaches we have the more opportunities we can offer to people wanting to take up fishing.

One of our Coaches at a Let's Fish Event

Coaching equals success for our Young Anglers

Match Report, Wednesday 2nd November 2022 Three Locks (Upper)

On a cold autumn morning with the air temperature hovering at 8C after two days of heavy rain seventeen anglers met at Three Locks to fish. Now the weather is getting colder the trees along the canal are dropping their leaves with large floating mats forming in some places, making angling challenging.

The water after the recent rain was coloured and considerably colder, the midday temperature being 12C and the fish feeling cold but still seeming willing to feed. The anglers had to contend with a strong gusting breeze which veered in direction during the day, at times being strong enough to make holding a pole very difficult.

The light conditions were also changing from bright low sun to heavy overcast. We had five boats all day, three of which came through in convoy about 90 Mins into the match. The maximum air temperature reached 13C at Midday.

Numbers of methods were tried, the most successful this week being pole, with best baits being bread, pinkies and worm.

Our winner this week was Richard Gibbs who had a real red-letter day taking the biggest Perch he has ever caught in 60 years fishing. This tremendous fish weighing 3lbs (weighed separately) and was taken on worm as part of a bag that weighed 9lb 10oz. Second place was taken by Sean Leatherland with a mixed bag of Perch, Bream and Roach for 8lb 14oz. Third was taken by Richard Darbon with a bag of manly Perch for 6lbs, and fourth was Dave Abbott with a big Bream and bits for 5lbs.

The results in the mid table this week were extremely tight with several anglers tied for places and ounces separating the rest.

Results

1st Richard Gibbs 9lb 10oz

2nd Sean Leatheland 8lb 14oz

3rd Richard Darbon 6lb

4th Dave Abbott 5lb

5th Steve Lathwell 4lb 5oz

6th Brian Shaw 3lb 9oz

7th Barry Roper 3lb 6oz

8th Dudley Frankland, Dennis Hunt, Chris Howard 2lb 7oz

11th Terry Vickers 2lb 5oz

12th Malcolm Ogden 2lb 4oz

13th Bart Bonito 1lb 5oz

14th Tony Hickmott 1lb 2oz

15th Roger Baker, Ray Burton 6oz

Les Burton DNW

Many thanks to Tony Hickmott for the usual Werther’s sweets before the off and to all those who assisted with both the draw and weigh in this week.

Next week we will fish away at Barnwell on the Nene by arrangement with Wellingborough so it is club members only.

Meet at McDonald’s for 7-30 drive off to the venue, £5.00 optional pools, and £1.00 Luton peg fee.