Here is all this weeks news,information and catch report round up from Luton Angling Club.
Membership Renewals and New Memberships
The membership team are very busy processing renewals. Today is the last day that existing members have priority to renew their membership and guarantee their renewal for the 2023/24 membership year that starts on 1st June.
On the morning 2nd May 2023 all remaining memberships will go on sale to new members. We have a lot of interest and only a limited number of new memberships will be available so make sure you don't dilly dally or you'll miss out. Once we have sold out that will be it until May 2024.
North House Lake
Fergal O' Kane visited North House Lake with his target being Tench, After a few missed bites and hook pulls he did get a Tench which wasn't weighed but was estimated at around 3lb as you can see it was somewhat dwarfed by the 50 inch landing net.
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| Fergal O'Kane North House Lake Tench (3lb) |
South Lagoon
The nurse told Amer Jawad he needed to exercise his broken finger, so he did by feeder flinging at South Lagoon.
Sorry about the quality of the image it came out a little blurry due to a wet camera lens
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| Amer Jawad - South Lagoon |
Beckerings Reservoir
Alan Lawrence had a very enjoyable day session, on Beckerings, feeder fishing for the Bream, he caught 13 Bream, from 7.9lb to 11.2lb, He also caught a 22.12lb mirror carp.
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| Alan Lawrence - Bream |
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| Alan Lawrence - Mirror Carp |
CRT ‘Lets Fish’ Town South Sunday 30th April.
Our Club coaches held the first and very successful public ‘Lets Fish’ event in Leighton Buzzard on Town South this week with all the available slots for our taster session filled.
There was a good mixture of younger boys and girls with Mums and Dads and adults all having a go, all really enjoying themselves and catching good fish, although due to inexperience several larger specimens were unfortunately lost.
At the end of our hour-long sessions many of our novice anglers were happily hooking Pinkies, spotting bites, playing, landing and unhooking fish, and expressing a desire to get their own tackle, join the club as Juniors and learn more, perhaps going on to compete at the CRT Celebration in Shropshire later this year.
We have another public Lets Fish event at Slapton next week and are sure it will be as successful.
Details of all upcoming Canal and River Trust let's fish events held across the country can be found on the eventbrite website.
If any club member is interested in undertaking the formal qualifications and checks required to become a volunteer and coach with us, please get in touch.
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| CRT Let's Fish at Town South |
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| CRT Let's Fish at Town South |
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| CRT Let's Fish at Town South |
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| CRT Let's Fish at Town South |
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| CRT Let's Fish at Town South |
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| CRT Let's Fish at Town South |
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| CRT Let's Fish at Town South |
Match Report Wednesday 26th April Luton / Wellingborough inter Club Three Locks.
This week we were pleased to entertain our good friends from Wellingborough to a friendly inter club fixture at Three Locks.
We had 21 anglers fishing and decided to split the match into two sections of 11 pegs, above and below Three Lock flight.
The Canal was holding good colour, but the water temperature at 9C was lower than recent weeks, resulting in some challenging fishing. Boat traffic was light and spread throughout the day.
Overall winner this week was Chris Howard on B section (above) who had the rarest of fish in a Luton Canal section, a Tench of 2 ½lbs in his bag! He also had a good bag of bream and some big perch, losing another big perch which snagged him in a tree, resulting in a lost top section of his pole. Chris finished with 13lb 5oz.
Ivor Stokes the Wellingborough Chairman took the honours on A section (below) with 10lb 7oz. Ivor fished three pole lines, nearside middle and over, rotating between the three to keep fish coming all day.
Richard Darbon who fished a small feeder on A section, weighed 9lb 4oz for third overall.
Sean Leatherland on B section hooked a Carp which took off aggressively down the cut. Sean did well and stopped the first run, but then the fish decided to take off again and having only light canal elastics in his pole, they very soon parted company!
The Canal bream are coming into spawning condition now, many exhibiting the nodular tubercles on head and back now.
The overall result (top 5 weights) was In Luton’s favour 40lb 10oz against Wellingborough’s 27lb 4oz, so its honours even as we lost when we fished on their water earlier in the year.
Individual Results
1st Chris Howard 13lb 5oz
2nd Ivor Stokes (Wellingborough) 10lb 7oz
3rd Richard Darbon 9lb 4
4th Dave Mauby (Wellingborough) 6lb 15
5th Adrian Smith 6lb 14oz
6th Sean Leatherland 5lb 10oz
7th Dennis Hunt 5lb 9oz
8th Peter Laughton (Wellingborough) 4lb 60z
9th Steve Lathwell 3lb 10oz
10th Richard Gibbs 3lb 9oz
11th Steve Brooks (Wellingborough) 3lb 0oz
12th Mark Franklin (Wellingborough) 2lb 8oz
13th Barry Roper 2lb 3oz
14th Terry Vickers 1lb 10oz
15th Roger Baker 1lb 2oz
16th Andy Frankum 0lb 15oz
17th Ray Burton 0lb 10 oz
Dave Abbott, Les Burton, Andy Norgate, John Barton DNW
Well done to the Wellingborough guys who participated. we hope you all had a good day with us. Thanks are due to the pegging team, and the weighing teams, who help make the day a success.
Next week, we will fish Town South, meet by the white bridge 8-30 draw £1 peg fee £5-00 optional pools.
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.
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| Wednesday Match - Chris Howard |
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| Wednesday Match 26.4.23 |
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| Wednesday Match - Three Locks 26.4.23 |
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
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