With the colder weather setting in reports have are slowing down. Still plenty of good sport to be had on our River sections. If you do get out fishing then please let us know how you get on.
Beckerings Reservoir
Craig Mahoney caught a 19lb 10oz Mirror on a recent Beckerings session.
Craig Mahoney caught a 19lb 10oz Mirror on a recent Beckerings session.
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| Craig Mahoney - 19lb 10oz |
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| Craig Mahoney - 19lb 10oz |
Abbey Lads Match Reports
3 of the Abbey Lads fished 3 locks on Sunday 4th December on the section above the locks, and the weights were as follows.
Match Report, Wednesday 7th December 2022 Biddenham
The first hard white frost of December was on the ground, with the air temperature hovering around 2C as the 10 anglers who fished today met in the car park at Biddenham this morning.
The river had dropped back to normal levels after the recent heavy rain, and had gentle flow, but is sadly lacking colour, currently running very clear.
With the recent sudden change in temperatures, we expected the fishing to be challenging, and we all found the fishing hard going this week, several anglers recording DNW.
Most struggled for bites, and the bigger fish failed to show. However, our winner Barry Roper, who has recently returned from holiday used his Cadence whip to good effect. He managed a bag of small fish using bread and pinkies as his bait for 1lb 10oz. Richard Darbon caught a Chub of about 9 inches long within a minute of starting, which unfortunately wriggled free as it was being unhooked and fell back in the water, but still took second with 1lb 8oz. Third was Andy Norgate, who landed two small Chub for 15oz.
Despite the weights being disappointingly low this week, we enjoyed our day by the river and the frost was forming on the cars again as we returned to the car park.
Well done Barry Roper, Richard Darbon and Andy Norgate.
Results
1st Barry Roper 1lb 10oz
2nd Richard Darbon 1lb 8oz
3rd Andy Norgate 0lb 15oz
4th Dennis Hunt 0lb 13oz
5th Steve Lathwell 0lb 8oz
Richard Gibbs, Roger Baker, Terry Vickers, Les Burton & Malcolm Ogden DNW
Next week, we will fish the GUC at Three Locks sections 3, meet in the car park for 8-30 draw fish 10 till 3, £5.00 optional pools, and £1.00 Luton peg fee
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| Chub caught in the Wednesday Match |
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| Wednesday Match |
Friday Club Biddenham 9th December 2022.
The inaugural outing of the Friday Club was to Biddenham, and 4 Club members gathered in the car park for a 9am start to do a few hours work, on a dry but cold day with a hard frost on the ground.
This week, our task was to open swim 16, and to do some trimming in swim 17 if time was available. Swim 16 was very restricted due to a large amount of brush and elder directly behind the swim, and 17 was overgrown on the left side. Doing this sort of work at this time of year when there are no leaves on the trees and bushes is easier as branches can be seen and there is no risk of disturbing nesting birds.
We set to work cutting our way in and clearing the brush, stacking it so we could burn it and leave the swim tidy when we finished. After cutting the undergrowth from swim 16 and getting our fire going, we set about clearing some vegetation from the left side of swim 17, leaving this in a better state.
All the guys enjoyed the banter and exercise and we certainly kept warm on a cold day. It was a shame we forgot the potatoes; they would have baked very well in the embers of our fire!
Thanks to Dennis Hunt, Richard Gibbs, Barry Stevenson, and Rob Duncombe for doing the work.
We hope to go and do some more work at Biddenham in the New Year on Friday 13th Jan if the weather is suitable, when we will try to give a final tidy to 16 and 17 and trim undergrowth impinging on swims 15, 19 and 20.
If anyone who has not done so wants to join us, please contact the Club and let us know, we have plenty of jobs of all sorts for all abilities!
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| Friday Club Work Party |
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| Friday Club Work Party |
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| Friday Club Work Party |
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| Friday Club Work Party |
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| Friday Club Work Party |
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| Friday Club Work Party |
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| Friday Club Work Party |
NORTH HOUSE WORK PARTY
7 of the work party volunteers met up at North House Lake today on a cold and frosty but beautiful morning. The lake had a layer of Ice thick enough for the ducks to walk on in some areas. The aim was to remove all the old chain link fencing and plastic matting from just inside the gate and have a general tidy up around the lake. We easily filled the 16-yard skip whilst being supervised at all times by a friendly Robin who followed us around. Thanks to Brian Turner, David Murdoch, Bob Burdiak, Dennis Vivian, Fergal O'Kane, David Nicholson, and Neville Hunt for attending to help.
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| Frozen - North House Lake |
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| clearing up the old chainlink fence |
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| clearing up the old chainlink fence |
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| Friendly Robin |
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| The skip all full up. |
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