Here is the latest news and catch report from Luton Angling Club. This edition covers the dates between 19th December and 2nd January due to lack of reports over the last couple of weeks. With the change to the much milder weather anglers have been out over the Christmas period and we have received some nice reports.
With all the recent rain rivers are running very high, with muddy coloured water pushing through very fast and almost over the banks so we haven't had any catch reports.
Beckerings Reservoir
Refilling of the reservoir has been ongoing for some time and water levels in the reservoir are on the way back up. The water levels have risen by around half a metre since 19th December with approx 1.3m until the reservoir is completely full.
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| Difference in water level - Dec 19th 2022 and Jan 1st 2023 |
When Neil Cox arrived for a winter carping session there wasn't any fish showing when he arrived had a look around and having spent the last 4 winters blanking while fishing between Xmas and February he was determined to break his run of blanks and went on a gut feeling this paid off, He had one of the recent stockies - Number 11 at 9lb 9oz which has gained a few ounces in weight since it went in at the end of October. He also had a 20lb 14oz mirror and 16lb 13oz common. all the fish were caught on madbaits.
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| Neil Cox - Stockie 11 9lb 9oz |
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| Neil Cox - Stockie 11 9lb 9oz |
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| Neil Cox - Common 16lb 13oz |
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| Neil Cox - Mirror 20lb 14oz |
Fishing a nice bright winters day Brett Collins had another of the stockies - Number 25 also at 9lb 9oz which is a 1lb increase on its stocking weight.
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| Brett Collins - Stockie 25 at 9lb 9oz |
Just one cast was enough for youngster Dexter Allen, trying out his new medium baitcaster setup resulted in a little scamp of a Pike which was hooked before dad Edward had even taken the bag off his back! unfortunately the next 4 hours of the session were fruitless so they both went home early to dry out.
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| Dexter Allen with a small Beckerings Pike |
Other anglers have reported catching the new stockies along with Roach and Bream on Maggot.
South Lagoon
Sam Vesty caught a 28lb PIke on Christmas Eve.
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| Sam Vesty - 28lb Pike from South Lagoon |
Jordan Cooney had a 15lb 12oz Pike on 30th December just as the light was fading away.
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| Jordan Cooney - 28lb Pike South Lagoon |
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| Jordan Cooney - 28lb Pike South Lagoon |
North House Lake
After a tough winter session with not a lot happening, Jack Beresford had a nice colourful little Pike on a mackerel drifted in the margins.
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| Jack Beresford - North House Pike |
Wednesday Group Christmas Match
After the Penultimate Wednesday Match was cancelled due to the freezing conditions, the Wednesday group were back on the bank again on the 21st for their final match of the year their annual "Christmas Match" the guys fished a shorter match from 10am until 2p before packing up and retiring to the Globe pub for refreshments.
We had a few boats move through during the day, anglers very often being warned of the approach by the crunching and cracking of the ice sheets as the boats approached.
With 21 anglers booked to fish we managed to fit everyone in despite there being several boats moored in the section.
Fishing the ‘Cut’ at this time of year is never easy, and at times, the low bright sun made seeing the floats very difficult for some.
The fish are shoaling up, and the roach seemed reluctant to show with Bream and Perch making up the bulk of the catches.
Most baits were tried, bread punch, pinkie and squatt all accounting for fish, as well as big maggot.
The undoubted ‘Christmas King of the Cut’ was the ever improving Les Burton one of our least experienced anglers, who fished a waggler using big maggot as bait to take a bag of bream for 8lb 11oz. Les has only been fishing just under a year and this was his first win, a great achievement.
Second was Terry Vickers with 6lb 10oz followed by Colin McBeth with 6lb 8 oz.
After this, the weights started to trail away, and several anglers either tipped back and recorded DNW or failed to catch.
Thanks are due to Roger Baker, who didn’t fish this week but came for the buffet and did the weigh-in for us.
Following the match, we retired to the pub where many friends and family joined us for our Christmas festivities, a few drinks, and our traditional present exchange.
All who came had a great day out, and many thanks to Julie and the team at the Globe for allowing us to park and providing the fantastic buffet spread for us. Tony Hickmott who couldn’t attend due to a family bereavement, donated three prizes of his homemade floats as prizes for a raffle prize. Thanks Tony.
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| Tony Hickmotts Hand Made Floats |
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| The canal at the Globe |
The group will now have its winter break, as they don’t fish again until early February when the venue will be Town South.
Because of the growing numbers and the popularity of the group we are having to make some changes and we will no longer be able to welcome non-Luton Club members to fish our events because of the difficulties in fitting in the numbers of pegs and the problems with parking at the venues.
We will, of course, continue to welcome new Club members to fish with us.
Results
1st Les Burton 8lb 11oz
2nd Terry Vickers 6lb 10oz
3rd Colin McBeth 6lb 7oz
4th Chris Howard 3lb 13oz
5th Dennis Hunt 2lb 10oz
6th Dave Whillock 2lb 9oz
7th Myles Tommey 2lb 7oz
8th Keith Ward 1lb 2oz
9th Sean Leatherland 10oz
10th Dave Smith 9oz
11th Dave Abbott 4oz
All others tipped back or DNW
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