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

Here is all this weeks news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club.

Beckerings Reservoir
Neil Cox had just the one fish this weekend. It was hard going with air pressure through the roof, no fish showing and even the feeder guys were struggling for bites, a strange weekend. This Common went 16lb 12oz another immaculate winter common falling to madbaits as usual.

Neil Cox - Beckerings Common 16lb 12oz

Amer Jawad fished the reservoir on Saturday and reported that it was a difficult days fishing. He still managed a few pulls on the quiver though and had some cracking Roach.

Amer Jawad - Beckerings Catches

North House Lake
Bailiff Brian Turner had a 2am wake up call from one of the 2017 stockies at North House Lake. It peeled the line off the reel. The weight was 19lb 7oz and looking back at the pictures it is number 2 and when it was stocked in October 2017, its weight was 5lb 7oz. He said the fish are definitely waking up at North House with lots of fish showing.

Brian Turner - Stockie 2 at 19lb 7oz North House Lake

South Lagoon - Wyboston
On his first ever session on the South Lagoon Robert Lamb had a decent sized Pike it was his first time on the lake. He didn't have his scales with him but said it easily beat his PB.

Robert Lamb - South Lagoon Pike

Grand Union Canal
Amer Jawad recently filmed the next video for his Youtube Channel "Amers Angle" on the Grove section of the canal and despite a difficult start things went really well. He managed around 25-30lb of fish mainly Perch, with 5 of them over 2lb and 2 weighing 3lb. The video will be released on his YouTube Channel soon.

Amer Jawad - Grand Union Canal

January Photo Prize.
Member Lewis Gurnham won the January monthly photo competition with the picture of his chub. He has very kindly donated his prize of £25 to the coaching team who will put the money towards supporting the junior coaching activities. What a really nice gesture and the coaching team were delighted and will put the funds to good use encouraging youngsters into angling via their Let's fish and other coaching activities.

Lewis Gurnham - January Prize winning Chub

Match Report, Wednesday 1st February 2023 GUC Town North

The Wednesday group, which is now Luton members only, were back on the bank again yesterday for the first outing of the year following their usual January break.

The Wednesday League championship for 2022 was won by Steve Lathwell, well done Steve.

It was great for the group to be back on the bank and among friends again as they met for the draw, and the start of the new Wednesday 2023 League. The venue was the Grand Union Canal at Town North Leighton Buzzard, and the day was bright, with an air temperature of around 8 degrees.

There was a keen gusting wind, which made some of the middle number pegs feel very chilly and made holding a long pole very difficult for some.

Others were more fortunate in having a warmer day, being in the shelter nearer the town or the trees nearer Leighton lock. They had one boat after the first hour and then nothing until midday when they had 4 boats pass including a big wide beam which seemed to be having difficulty navigating the cut and stirred up the bottom! After the recent freeze when the canal was iced over for a significant time the water is still extremely cold, but holding good winter colour.

The winner Wednesday was Richard Darbon who had the benefit of quite a sheltered peg and used his whip at 5mtrs. He started on punch and had 5 skimmers in a row before the roach moved in, although he still managed to tempt the odd skimmer until the punch line died.

Richard then switched to Pinkie and continued to catch roach, perch, and the odd skimmer. Sean Leatherland took second place using pinkie with a decent perch and a couple of decent skimmers backed up by roach.

All who fished enjoyed the day, although Roger Baker who was in one of the more exposed pegs and getting cold retired early to the warmth of his lounge.

Results
1st Richard Darbon 6lb 13oz
2nd Sean Leatherland 6lb 9oz
3rd Steve Lathwell 4lb 13oz
4th Chris Howard 4lb 8oz
5th Dennis Hunt 4lb 5oz
6th Terry Vickers 3lb 15oz
7th Dave Smith 2lb 4oz
8th Keith Ward 1lb 7oz
9th Colin McBeth 1lb 6oz 8drm
10th Les Burton 1lb 6oz
11th Andy Norgate 1lb 5oz
12th Malcolm Ogden 3oz
Dudley Frankland, Roger Baker & Ray Burton DNW

Many thanks to and to all those who assisted with both the draw, pegging out and weigh in this week, without the combined team effort it would be difficult to run these matches.

Next week we will fish the River at Biddenham, meet in the car park for 8-30 draw fish 10 till 3, £5.00 optional pools, and £1.00 Luton Wednesday peg fee.

Wednesday Match - GUC Town North

North House Ad Hoc Mini Work Party
The North House bailiff team assisted by members Paul Sweet and David Thorn removed a fallen tree from North House this morning. The tree was much bigger than it looked. The last of the Barley straw also went in to slow down the algae growth We are very grateful for the efforts of the bailiffs and members that give up some of their time and assist in keeping our venues in tip top condition.

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.