Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: May 2023

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Spring Bank Holiday Edition 29th May 2023

Here is this weeks news, catch report and information round up from Luton Angling Club.

The locks at all our venues will be changed late evening on 31st May. Any member that has not renewed their membership must leave North House/Beckerings/Slapton Canal Car Park by 8pm on the 31st. Any member that has renewed must ensure they have their NEW key with them in order to exit the venue once the lock has been changed.

All new members are reminded to read all the rules in their membership book before going fishing.

Spawning Update

With the weather warming up fish are starting to spawn at some of our venues. It is difficult to predict when they will start/stop spawning and they can start and stop several times over a couple of weeks. We do not close venues during spawning as there are other species to fish for we request that in the interest of fish welfare that members are respectful and avoid fishing near or for spawning fish. Let them get on with their business and it will soon be over!

South Lagoon - Wyboston

Day Ticket angler Jason Wilson had a great 24 hour session on South Lagoon yesterday resulting in two fantastic common carp the first was 28lb 6oz and the second was a huge 37lb 14oz. Non members can fish South Lagoon on a Day and Night Ticket available on the bank from our bailiffs.

Jason Wilson - 37lb 14oz from South Lagoon

Jason Wilson - 28lb 6oz from South Lagoon

Amer Jawad recently filmed another YouTube video, this time on the South Lagoon we look forward to seeing it when it's released on YouTube very soon. Check out Amer's channel as there is some great content and some of it filmed on Luton waters.

https://youtube.com/@amersangle1234

Amer Jawad at South Lagoon

North House Lake

Club Bailiff Brian Turner had this scaley banger Saturday night from North House likely one of the 2017 stockies at 19lb 3oz

Brian Turner 19lb 3oz - North House

Beckerings Reservoir

Gary Waller was at Beckerings this morning and had a 7lb Bream, He then had this one at 11lb, which is a new PB.

Gary Waller - 11lb Bream from Beckerings

Brett Collins had 3 fish from Beckerings last weekend and he sent in a picture of the best one which was a Mirror Carp. He was back this weekend before the spawning started and had 5 fish and this time the best one was a common and is pictured below.

Brett Collins - Common from Beckerings

Brett Collins - Mirror from Beckerings

Neil Cox had a fantastic weekend session before spawning started with 14 carp runs and 11 of them landed, weights varied from the stockies at 8.8lb and 10lb up to a whopper Common of 29lb 12oz all baits were fished over a baited spot using madbaits. He also had 2 tench of 5lb and numerous bream estimated into double figures, All in all he had a pretty busy weekend.

Neil Cox - Beckerings Common

Neil Cox - Beckerings Common

Neil Cox - Beckerings Common

Neil Cox - Beckerings Common

Neil Cox - Beckerings Common

Neil Cox - Beckerings Common

Neil Cox - Beckerings Common

Neil Cox - Beckerings Stockie

Neil Cox - Beckerings Stockie

Neil Cox - Beckerings Mirror

Neil Cox - Beckerings Mirror

Neil Cox - Beckerings Tench

Hanwell Prince of Wales Match Group

We received a recent match report from Peter Finch of the Hanwell Prince of Wales match group...

"We had a lovely day fishing the Grand Union Canal at Ivinghoe on Sunday.
Top 3 weights were 1st place 17-8-0 followed by 15-8-0 in 2nd place and 12-0-0 got third.
A couple of weights almost 5lbs and others down to the lowest weight of 2.5lbs. Catches were made using crumb, chopped worm, pinkies. The top weights were caught all along the stretch and consisted of Bream and Roach"

Kingfisher follow on Coaching pathway, Slapton Sunday 27th May A few of our young Kingfisher members came to a coaching session on the canal on Sunday. We fished at Slapton on a fine afternoon with the water having good colour. Despite it being Bank Holiday boat traffic was quite light and didn’t really bother those fishing.

We had a range of abilities on the bank again, all those on the bank, our young anglers, coaches, and parents really enjoyed the day, and did really well, and we all came away having learnt something. The fishing was slower than of late perhaps due to fish spawning, but all caught with Dylan and Uthmaan both catching nice hybrids. Cody was practicing with a long pole.

Dylan did well hooking and playing his fish and even remembering to put another section on his pole when the fish ran. His lovely hybrid weighed 1lb 4oz and put up a very decent scrap, well done Dylan. Uthmaan also had a decent Hybrid, his biggest fish so far, and his mum said he had the best day! He was fascinated by the spines on his Perch dorsal fin!

We are holding another Let's Fish at Slapton this week and hope to recruit some more talent into the Kingfishers.

Follow on Coaching Session - Slapton

Follow on Coaching Session - Slapton

Match Report 24th May Three Locks Section 3 (Lower)

We had 10 fish our Wednesday Match this week, on a fine, warm late spring morning.

We had intended to fish Section 2 at Braggenham side, but due to numbers of moored boats, we decided to fish section 3 instead. The anglers had a couple of double boats in the first hour, which did nothing to improve the anglers’ prospects.

Sean Leatherland was in winning form again this week, taking small skimmers and some roach and perch at 11.5 Metres throughout the match using red maggot and caster over groundbait to finish with 13lb 11oz. Sean had a decent skimmer taken by a pike as he was about to net it.

The Pike was estimated at between 7 and 8lbs. 

A very well deserved second this week was Malcolm Ogden with 3lbs 5oz,

Malcolm fishes nearly every week, and it was good to see him frame and collect some cash!  

Ray Burton took a well deserved third with 2lbs 4oz just pipping Bart Bonito who managed fourth with 2lb 2oz 

Results
1st Sean Leatherland 13lb 11oz
2nd Malcolm Ogden 3lbs 5oz
3rd Ray Burton 2lbs 4oz
4th Bart Bonito 2lbs 2oz
5th   (joint) Terry Vickers & Dudley Frankland 1lb 2oz
7th Barry Roper 8oz

DNW Jim Tookey Chris Howard and Les Burton

Thanks to the pegging team, and the weighing teams this week.

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time can we ask you message us so we know you are coming before turning up, as this will allow us to better manage the pegging. You will be asked to produce your Club book at first appearance, so please have it with you.

Next week, we will fish Water End at Clophill (How End) meet for 8-30 draw Fishery Fee and £1 Wednesday peg fee, £5-00 optional pools. Please do not arrive and queue in the lane before 8am!

Wednesday Match

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.

Tight Lines Until Next Week!

Dave M
Luton AC
www.lutonanglingclub.co.uk
www.facebook.com/LutonAC
www.instagram.com/lutonanglingclub

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 21st May 2023

Here is this week's news, catch reports and information from Luton Angling Club.

We've not received many reports this week with the warmer weather arriving it looks like the fish are getting ready to spawn with some of the North House fish already showing the signs that spawning is imminent and have obviously been crashing around in the marginal reed beds.

We'll do our best to keep you updated with spawning at our venues via the facebook page. Please be respectful, they are not interested in your bait while spawning and fishing for them and casting towards spawning fish can harm them and they are in real danger of being foul hooked, the quicker they get this out of their system the quicker things will be back to normal. We do not close any venues when the carp are spawning as there are plenty of other species to fish for and not everyone is after the carp.

It's nice to see many responsible members cancelling their night sessions and avoiding waters while the carp are spawning.

Evidence of Carp starting to spawn at North House

Beckerings Reservoir

Neil Cox fished for a few hours on Thursday and finally got a fish he'd been after. The prehistoric at 25lb 14oz which was taken off the surface on a trimmed down madbaits pop up, also the Half lin decided to come and say hello and came to the surface within 2 foot of the platform.

Neil Cox with the Pre-Historic from Beckerings

Luton Kingfisher follow on Coaching pathway, Town South 20th May.

On a lovely warm and sunny day, the Club coaches ran a planned pathway session on Town South.

Unfortunately, there were a few of our young anglers missing today as some were taking Judo tests, others had family commitments, and one just felt unwell! 
However, we had four that did attend,

Uthamaan came to collect his new pole and try it out, catching 6 fish before he also had to leave early, but he will be back with us to carry on his angling journey very soon. 

Daniel and Dylan continue to hone their Canal skills, both now being competent young anglers who caught well for all the session and didn’t want to go home. Alfie was practising fish a pole ‘Long’ for the first time and was getting on well, catching fish and mastering the technique, and will possibly be back on the bank practising again tomorrow.

The Club are very proud of all our Kingfishers they are very talented young anglers.

Coaching at Town South Saturday 20th May

Wyboston Track Repairs

David Murdoch, Brian Turner, David Thorne, Fergal O'Kane and Paul Sweet put in a fantastic amount of work on Saturday at Wyboston.The track between North House Lake and the River which was getting very lumpy and bumpy was scraped back to the bricks and around the South Lagoon] a lot of the potholes were filled with material and compacted with a whacker plate. MEMBERS AND DAY TICKET ANGLERS ARE REMINDED TO DRIVE VERY SLOWLY ALONG THE TRACK 5MPH MAX as this will prolong its life.

Wyboston track repairs

Wyboston track repairs

Wyboston track repairs

Wyboston track repairs

Wyboston track repairs

Match Report 17th May Three Locks Section 4 (upper)

We had 18 anglers turn out for our Wednesday match this week, on a fine warm late spring morning. The sky was clear, but this alternated throughout the day. At times, we had periods of quite heavy overcast, but no actual rain, on what turned out an eventful day.

As we arrived on the towpath a historic pair of narrowboats, a GUC ‘Town’ class motor of 1938, built by Harland & Wolf, and a wooden ‘Butty’ the last wooden boat built in the UK at Braunston in 1958 were pulling away heading south. This pair made the last commercial run on the GUC in 1970 to the Robinsons Jam factory in Southall, carrying coal from the midlands’ pits, known as the Jam Hole run, and it was great to see them on the Cut. We then had no more boats until around 2 in the afternoon.  

After reaching our pegs and starting to fish ‘Chainsaw Charlie’ from the CRT Contractors arrived and proceeded to attack the fallen tree on the off bank that has been there for some years. The Club had no warning of this work (indeed the local CRT Ops manager didn’t know of the work being undertaken by the contractor either) and this was eventually halted after a large branch fell in the water narrowly missing an angler’s pole and messing up swims. The match group have raised this matter as an official incident with CRT.  

The Canal had good colour and had a starting temperature of 15.2C rising by 1C to 16.2C when we finished. This sudden rise in temperature seems to have put the fish in spawning mood, and the fishing this week was far slower than we have recently experienced and the weights much lower.

Sean Leatherland managed a couple of decent bream for a well-deserved 1st place with 8lb 3oz, while Jim Tookey on his first time out with us for some time took 6lb 13oz for second. Andy Frankum took 3rd with 6lb 7oz. Bary Roper played and hooked a big Carp on his pole for 15 Mins, getting it to just before the point he was to net it when it bolted and broke him.  Dennis Hunt in joint 5th had a rather nice chunky perch in his 4lb 1oz.

Results
1st Sean Leatherland 8lb 3oz
2nd Jim Tookey 6lb 13oz
3rd Andy Frankum 6lb 7oz
4th Barry Roper 4lb 12oz
5th (Joint) Dennis Hunt & Chris Howard 4lb 1oz
7th (Joint) Dudley Frankland & Dave Abbott 2lb 11oz
9th Bart Bonito 1lb 11oz
10th Terry Vickers 1lb 5oz
11th Richard Darbon 1lb
12th Les Burton 8oz
13th Malcolm Ogden 6oz
14th Andy Norgate 5oz
15th Ray Burton 3oz
DNW Richard Gibbs, Tony Hickmott, Trevor Bunnage (left early 3lb + put back)

Thanks to the pegging team, and the weighing teams this week.

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time, can we ask you to message us so we know you are coming before turning up, as this will allow us to better manage the pegging.

Next week, we will fish section 2 Braggenham side, 8-30 draw £1 Wednesday peg fee and £5-00 optional pools.
Wednesday Match - Dennis Hunt
Wednesday Match - Sean Leatherland
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.

Tight Lines Until Next Week!

Dave M

Luton AC

www.lutonanglingclub.co.uk

www.facebook.com/LutonAC

www.instagram.com/lutonanglingclub

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 14th May 2023

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

North House Lake

Justin McNaughton had six fish from North House during his 24hr session. He had a 29.6 common, 26.3 common, 25.8 mirror, 19.3 common and a Common and Mirror that weren't weighed.