Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week ending 4th June 2023

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

Thursday 1st June saw the start of our 2023/2024 season with new members eager to get out and fish our waters. We welcome all our new members and wish them Tight Lines for the 2023/24 season. Please do send in your catch reports as they are important for the growth of the club and for us to see how are waters are performing. 

You can send in catch reports and pictures via our website or our social media pages on Facebook and Instagram or by what's app to 07940 229071. We look forward to seeing them.

WORK PARTY - WYBOSTON RIVER OUSE 10th June 2023
The club will be holding a work party on the River Ouse at Wyboston next Saturday 10th June to strim the pathways and clear the swims along the river ready for the 16th June when the river season starts, Members are encouraged to come and lend a hand. We'll meet in the nature reserve car park along the track beyond North House at 9am.

South Lagoon - Wyboston
South Lagoon has been fishing well for the Carp recently - Steve Holt fished for 24hrs on South Lagoon and caught this lovely Common. It weighed 32lb 4oz and is a new PB for Steve.
Steve Holt 32lb 4oz - South Lagoon
Steve Holt 32lb 4oz - South Lagoon
Amer Jawad's latest video "Window Feeder of Opportunity" filmed at South Lagoon is now on his YouTube channel. Please like and subscribe to his channel - It's completely free and your support will help with the creation of future videos.
Amer Jawad - YouTube Video
Missed out on club membership? Don't forget you can also fish South Lagoon on a Day and Night Ticket available on the bank from our bailiffs.

Beckerings Reservoir
Peter Wells fished Beckerings on Friday night, He had a 22lb common at around midnight and then he had the Half Lin at 1st light Saturday morning, weighing in at 35.8lb, what a stunning fish and apparently she put up an awesome fight.
Peter Wells - Beckerings - 22lb Common
Peter Wells - Beckerings - Half Lin 
Peter Wells - Beckerings - Half Lin 
Phil Anderson is glad to be back with the club this year and he fished Beckerings Friday night. It was hard going but he did manage a 21lb Scaley mirror using Mad Baits Pandemic over some loose bait and a couple of spods of hemp and corn.
Phil Anderson - Beckerings
Kenzie Lynch caught a fish weighing 1lb 10oz from Beckerings and wasn't 100% sure what it was. We are certain it's a Roach on this occasion but sometimes the Ide are misidentified as Roach as they do look similar.
Kenzie Lynch - 1lb 10oz
Kenzie Lynch - 1lb 10oz
North House Lake
Kevin Sanders had one of the stockies from North House, It put up a right scrap and fought well so he put antiseptic on its lip and wanted to return it quickly to the water so it wasn't weighed. Kevin has also been back to North House since to do a feature on Tench fishing for the Angling Times which we hope to see published soon.
Kevin Sanders - Stockie NHL
Kevin Sanders - Stockie NHL
Venue Bailiffs - a credit to our club
Our venue bailiffs do a fantastic job and are a credit to the club. They help keep our venues in tip-top condition. Just a couple of recent examples - Beckerings bailiff Rob spent Sunday mowing all around Beckerings and today Lavendon bailiff Roger has strimmed most of the downstream section of the river. It was like a jungle with 4 to 5 feet high of Cow Parsley, nettles and grass. He'll finish it off tomorrow and then he and Bob Burdiak will give it another strim a couple of days before the season starts on the 16th June. Upstream will be done at the same time.
Beckerings - Grass Cut by Rob
Beckerings - Grass Cut by Rob
Lavendon - Work in Progress
Kingfisher follow on Coaching pathway, Slapton Saturday 3rd June.
The Club ran another Kingfisher Coaching pathway event at Slapton on Saturday and were pleased to welcome William who is joining the Club as a Junior member among the others who attended.
We again had a range of abilities on the bank from beginners to more experienced anglers All our young anglers set up their tackle correctly and concentrated well, but this week despite looking great the Canal turned out to be very moody, the good fishing of recent weeks had disappeared, and bites were at a premium. The bites our anglers had were mostly tentative affairs and not easy to hook, but despite this most caught several fish, and some bigger specimens were lost.
The moody canal is no doubt due to fluctuations in temperature and spawning, as fishing anywhere at the moment is challenging. All our young anglers did well, and all came away having learnt something from the day.
We are all looking forward to our next event when hopefully the Canal will have returned to better form.
Coaching Follow on - 3rd June at Slapton
Coaching Follow on - 3rd June at Slapton
Match Report 31st May How End (Water End Clophill)
We had 16 fish our Wednesday Match at Water End this week. With a 10C drop in temperature a chilly wind and spawning fish it was a challenging affair and weights were low.
The venue was holding good colour and after making our way to our pegs and setting up a number of those present, had fish straight off, but then the fishing slowed. Several lost good fish, and John Gray nearly lost the top four from his pole!
John was fishing the far side, had a vicious take, the pole went round and shortly after, there was a loud report as the No 4 section parted. The top 3 and a half sections dropped in the lake and accelerated away, towed by the fish making 25 Yds before shedding the hook.
Fortunately, the lost sections floated, and were retrieved later with the aid of a landing net.
Richard Gibbs our winner this week weighing 28lb 14oz, fished a small feeder on the far side using dead reds on the hook, and loose fed caster and fishery micro pellet. He caught 5 Carp but had to wait a long time between bites. After a long period with no bites at all he changed hookbait to a 6mm Fjuka wafter and caught 3 more fish in the last hour.
Nuala Gray was out with us again after a long break but proved she hadn’t lost her form coming second with 10lb 1oz. She also used feeder tactics to temp her fish, using a method feeder filled with micro pellet and caster, baited with red maggots.
Sean Leatherland picked up third place with 8lb 11oz and Jim Tookey fourth with 8lb 5oz.
Results
1st Richard Gibbs 28lb 140z
2nd Naula Grey 10lb 1oz
3rd Sean Leatherland 8lb 11oz
4th Jim Tookey 8lb 5oz
5th Andy Frankum 7lb 4oz
6th Colin McBeth 5lb 9oz
7th Adrian Smith 4lb 1oz
8th Richard Darbon 3lb 14oz
9th John Barton 3lb 0oz
10th Les Burton 2lb 14oz
11th Dennis Hunt 2lb 2oz
12th Terry Vickers 1lb 12oz
DNW Ash Bunnage, Ray Burton, John Grey, Tony Hickmott
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, so we can ensure we have room 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 the South Lagoon meet for 8-30 draw at the lake £1 Wednesday peg fee, £5-00 optional pools.
Water End Fishery - Wednesday Match

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