Here is this weeks news, information and catch report round up from Luton Angling Club.
Membership Renewals are well under way and all existing club members have priority to renew their memberships during the month of April. On the 2nd May 2023 any remaining un-renewed memberships will go on general sale to new members. Please ensure you renew by the end of April to guarantee your renewal as all renewals after the end of April are subject to availability. We have a lot of interest for club membership so don't miss out!
South Lagoon - Wyboston
Wieslaw Lewandowski and his 16 year old son Simon fished for Tench on the South Lagoon. They caught a lot of bream all over 5lb, but just before midnight the alarm sounded "a stronger note" and after a fight using his 1.75lb barbel rod with an EOS 10000 with fairly light fishing line and maggot and corn as hookbait, Simon had a Common carp weighing just over 31lb in the landing net. It's Simon's first ever carp and has set his PB rather high, so it might take some time for him to beat it, but he's going to try!! Wieslaw also hooked and landed an 18lb 7oz Pike. The South Lagoon is open to both club members and can also be fished by non members on a day or night ticket available from the bailiffs on the bank.
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| Simon with his 31lb Common Carp from South Lagoon |
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| Simon and Wieslaw at South Lagoon |
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| Scales showing the weight of the Common |
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| Wieslaw at South Lagoon with an 18lb 7oz Pike. |
Alison McNeil usually fishes the Rivers but with the close season in force tried Beckerings for the first time and had this Ide at 3lb 6oz. These Ide really are growing on well as they were only a few inches long when they were stocked.
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| Alison McNeil at Beckerings with a 3lb 6oz Ide |
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| Alison McNeil's 3lb 6oz Ide |
Carlo had a great overnighter with 4 fish landed - one stocky (no picture) a Common and two Scaly Mirrors with the biggest one being 21lb 8oz
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| Carlo with a Scaly Mirror from Beckerings |
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| Carlo with a Scaly Mirror from Beckerings |
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| Carlo with a Scaly Mirror from Beckerings |
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| Carlo with a Common from Beckerings |
Peter Wells had 2 lovely commons, one at 24lb 12oz and another at 25lb 2oz one was caught on Saturday night and one at 5am Sunday morning
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| Peter Wells with a Common from Beckerings |
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| Peter Wells with a Common from Beckerings |
Beckerings bailiff Neil Cox fished the reservoir this weekend and had 3 fish all in mint condition. He said they are definitely waking up, he had a Mirror of 25lb 2oz, a common at 23lb 8oz and a small mirror which wasn't photographed. All fish were taken using the usual madbaits.He saw 8 fish over 20lb come out from Friday to Sunday lunchtime the biggest 28lb and several other smaller fish. He also captured a fantastic shot of the sunrise over the reservoir
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| A beautiful sunrise at Beckerings |
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| Neil Cox 23lb 8oz Common from Beckerings |
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| Neil Cox 25lb 2oz Mirror from Beckerings |
Tom Williams had a pair of 27's. One common and one mirror
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| Tom Williams with 27lb Common from Beckerings |
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| Tom Williams with 27lb Mirror from Beckerings |
Kevin Woolmer caught one of the stockies weighing 9lb 12oz he caught it on the waggler with double maggot on a 3lb bottom while fishing for Roach it took him quite a while to land on the light gear and a float rod.
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| Kevin Woolmer - Stockie 10 from Beckerings |
Brett Collins had four carp all on five star baits, pictures of 3 of them are below.
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| Brett Collins - Scaly Mirror from Beckerings |
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| Brett Collins - Common from Beckerings |
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| Brett Collins - Common from Beckerings |
Slider float fishing is one of the arts of float fishing. It's a method that gets anglers frustrated when perfecting the set-up, plumbing up and feeding at range. in the 4th episode of Amer's Angle which was filmed at Beckerings Reservoir, Amer shows you how simple a method it is when all the fore-mentioned are put into practice. It is an exciting float fishing session which threw up at least one surprise!
Check it out on Youtube as it is well worth a watch. https://youtu.be/fDLjn1RWJ3E
Coaching Session, Town South Sunday 9th April
Today (Sunday 9th April) our Luton Coaches ran a follow-on coaching session for our fast-improving Junior(Kingfisher) anglers using the Grand Union Canal at Town South in Leighton Buzzard as our venue.
A good number of our young anglers were away for the Easter holidays, but the lads that came really enjoyed themselves and all caught fish. We even had a newbie, it was Daniels first time out with us, he came with his friend and enjoyed himself so much he wants to join the Club and become a regular attendee.
Alfie, who hadn’t been out for a little while, was practicing fishing bread punch over liquidised bread feed and ended up with 4lb 13oz at the end of the three hours.
Louis was also fishing punch and trying pinkie to bag a nice mixed net, and our least experienced anglers were practising using pinkies over a little groundbait and caught well.
We have great hopes for these lads when they represent Luton Angling Club in Shropshire later in the year.
Well done, all our Kingfishers!
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| Kingfishers Coaching Session - Town South |
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| Kingfishers Coaching Session - Town South |
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| Kingfishers Coaching Session - Town South |
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| Kingfishers Coaching Session - Town South |
Match Report 5th April Three Locks Lower Grand Union Canal
On a bright but chilly Wednesday morning we had a great turnout with 18 anglers turning up to fish the Canal at Three Locks. The Canal water was holding good colour after the recent rain and the water temp started at 10.1C rising to 10.8C as the day wore on.
Most anglers started brightly catching for the first hour and then the bites vanished as the first boat, a CRT workboat passed, causing little disturbance. We had a few boats today but only one angler Dennis Hunt on peg 11 was ‘Double Boated’.
Most anglers had a fallow period in the middle of the day, bites returning for some in the last hour.
Our winner this week was Chris Howard who had a great day, drawing peg 6 which put him opposite some bushes on the kink. He started off on punch at 7.5 metres and caught steadily taking skimmers and bream on 5mm bread punch before going over to the bushes at 13 metres with worm and caster, taking a couple of large bream, skimmers, and a very large Perch. By about 2 o'clock, everyone was struggling for a bites and after this Chris only managed a single Ruffe, He weighed in 20lb 9oz for his first place.
Sean Leatherland was second taking bream and skimmers at 11 Metres, his hookbait was red maggot fished over groundbait for 8lb 14oz. Dennis Hunt took third this week, taking two bream early on 5mm punch over toasted crumb, was then biteless for three hours. He then decided to feed some chopped worm over groundbait using worm on the hook and finished taking a further two skimmers and a bream in 18 ins of water at 14.5 Metres just off the far bank for 6lb 4oz. Colin Macbeth finished fourth with 4lb 10oz.
Results
1st Chris Howard 20lb 9oz
2nd Sean Leatherland 8lb 14oz
3rd Dennis Hunt 6lb 4oz
4th Colin MacBeth 4Lb 10oz
5th Bart Bonito 4Lb 3oz
6th Steve Lathwell 4lb 2oz
7th Andy Norgate 3lb 9oz
8th Terry Vickers 3lb 7oz
9th Barry Roper 3lb 2oz
10th Richard Gibbs 3lb 0oz
11th Dave Abbott & Richard Darbon 2lb 10oz
13th Malcolm Ogden 2lb 2oz
14th Brian Shaw 1lb 4oz
15th Ray Burton 0lb 5oz
Dudley Frankland, Les Burton, Tony Hickmott DNW
Thanks to the team who did the pegging out and Roger Baker who came specially to do the weigh in this week, an excellent job as usual.
Next week is a slight change of plan we will fish Danni’s at How End meet at the fishery AFTER 8am for an 8-30 draw, fish 10 till 3 Fishery ticket, £1-00 Wednesday peg fee and £5-00 optional pools.
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| Wednesday Match - Three Locks |
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Canal and River Trust Celebration of Young People and Angling - September 2023
The Bookings for the Canal and River Trust Celebration to be held in September opened on Friday 1st April and we have 5 young Luton Anglers out of the 70 booked to date that can’t wait to go, and we are sure others will want to join them in our Luton Teams.
Some had the experience of competing last year and can’t wait to go back again for others it will be their first time, but we are sure they will enjoy themselves. We have a full summer of Lets Fish and follow on coaching to come, and it’s great to see the Louis and the other lads getting out for some practice on their own.
We look forward to having a successful summer, and our young anglers doing well at the celebrations in September.
If anyone wants to join in, please contact the Club to let us know. Below is a link to the Canal and River Trust Celebration page.
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That's all we have this week,
Tight Lines
Dave
Luton Angling Club
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