Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 5th March 2023

Unfortunately, not much to report on this week, just a couple of match results.

Match Report - Grand Union Canal

Queens Works AC fished their sixth Winter League match on The Grand Union Canal at The Globe, Leighton Buzzard, last Sunday.

Despite a cold start to the day, all anglers caught fish, including Ian Proud.

Steve Cooper won the day with a good bag of decent skimmers and roach for 8lbs 11oz.

Roy Chamberlain had a big perch in his runner-up weight of 5lbs 7oz and Micky Astle was third with 4lbs 14oz.

Paul Stokes won the first section with 3lbs 15oz and Mandy Dunham won section 2 with 3lbs 1oz,despite leaving her peg to use the Pub toilet and having a double brandy !

Richard Newman was awarded the Wooden Spoon for coming last with 6 fish for a pathetic 10oz

With 4 matches remaining, the Winter League table stands as follows :-

1.Paul Stokes................ 118 pts

2.Mick Astle...................114 pts

3.Paul Nicholls...............112 pts

4.Steve Cooper...............105 pts

5.Steve Dunham.............102 pts

6.Roy Chamberlain........ 100 pts

Match Report, Tuesday 28th February. Mill Cotton, Ringstead

This week we fished away against Wellingborough, on their lake at Mill Cotton. We had originally intended to fish the match on the River Nene, but due to low clear water and little flow its currently not fishing well so the decision was made last week to swap to a ‘Silvers only’ match on the adjacent lake.

Luton were a little light on numbers due to the change of day, several regulars having prior appointments, and some being unwell, resulting in only 5 of us fishing.

The morning started cold with a drizzly overcast and little wind as we met our hosts at the lake. The weather warmed slightly during the day, the sun briefly appearing and the wind increasing, but it was pleasant enough for the end of February,

Mill Cotton is around 1.5 Mtrs deep with the water temperature currently cold at 7ºC and was holding a nice greenish colour.

Wellingborough had the home advantage and managed to bag the highest weights on the day, the heaviest nets of consisting of quality roach and skimmers taken by anglers using hemp, fished fairly tight over to the far bank in 2ft 6in of water! The winner took 13lb 12oz with backup weights of 12lb+.

Others fishing used maggot, pinkie and pellet and several carp (which didn’t count) were caught and returned, Bart Bonito took the highest Luton weight at 6lb 6oz having managed to sort out a method that worked!

Richard Darbon fished pinkie and maggot in the track and down the near edge to net 4lb 7oz of roach and skimmers.

All of those that fished really enjoyed the day, and we certainly learnt from the experience. Many thanks to our hosts Wellingborough, we fish the return match on the Canal in April.

Luton Results

1st Bart Bonito 6lb 6oz

2nd Richard Darbon 4lb 7oz

3rd Dennis Hunt 2lb 13oz

4th Tony Hickmott 2lb 9oz

5th Malcolm Ogden 1lb 2oz

Next week we will fish the River Ouse at Wyboston, meet behind North House Lake for 8-30 draw fish 10 till 3, £5.00 optional pools, and £1.00 Luton Wednesday peg fee.

Wednesday Match at Mill Cotton, Ringstead

Wednesday Match at Mill Cotton, Ringstead

Wednesday Match at Mill Cotton, Ringstead

That's All we have this week.

Tight Lines

Dave M

Luton Angling Club