Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: July 2023

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week ending 30th July 2023

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

Certificate of Excellence award.

On Thursday at our monthly committee meeting the club was presented with a certificate of excellence award by the Angling Trust. The award is for the efforts of the club coaching team on the training days for Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Police. These were organised by the Angling Trust and focused on angling law and its enforcement. The award was handed over to Mark Brooks and Dennis Hunt by Paul Thomas who is the regional enforcement support manager for the Eastern region. We hope to get Paul back soon to talk to our bailiffs about how to safely and effectively deal with some of the issues currently faced by angling clubs such as illegal fishing.

Certificate of Excellence Award from the Angling Trust

A picture from the training day at Westbrook Mere back in May.

Beckerings Reservoir

Carlo Borromeo had a great day session. It resulted in two cracking mirrors. He was using the ever faithful Nutz from Mad Baits to hunt them down. Weights were 23.10lb and 19.6lb

Carlo Borromeo with a Beckerings Mirror

Carlo Borromeo with a Beckerings Mirror

Ben Waymont did a 48hr session for the first time and he had 2 carp, 24lb and 18lb and a few Bream up to 10lb.

Ben Waymont with a Beckerings Common

Ben Waymont with a Beckerings Mirror

Bill Ridgway had a short session on Beckerings and he had 9 good sized Roach, plus another that was taken by a Pike. Best of all his first attempt at fishing for the carp gave him this perfect 15lb Mirror.

Bill Ridgway with a Beckerings Mirror at 15lb

Jason Mash had a couple of Commons.

Jason Mash with a Beckerings Common

Lavendon Mill Upstream

Nobby Clarke fished Lavendon upstream again on Wednesday with his mate Geoff , Nobby fished peg one and Geoff was in peg two, both had about the same amount of fish , no quality fish this time but he only had one good sized roach last time of about 10oz, This session's best wasn’t anywhere close to that , again he chose to fish the whip using seed baits, most roach he caught were on wheat at different depths. It was tough going and he fished from first light until about half two.

He thinks that it may take a few weeks and possibly into September before the better roach show up but regardless he still had an enjoyable session in lovely surroundings and good company. We also think as the stretch gets fished more the fish will get used to the bait going in and catch rates will improve.

Nobby Clarke with a Lavendon Roach

Lavendon Mill - Nobby Clarke

Paul Martin also fished the Upstream section this week and he caught a Bream, a Perch and 2 Pike but they were not photgraphed.

South Lagoon - Wyboston

POWER LINE WORK UPDATE as the work on the electricity pylons progresses Pegs 23,24,25 on South Lagoon and Peg 1 on the river are closed off. Members and Day Ticket Anglers MUST NOT attempt to access or fish from these pegs. We'll update you when the work is completed.

No Access to Pegs 23,24,25 while Pylon work takes place

Wednesday Match Report 26th July Three Locks section 3 & 4 This week nineteen of our members gathered for the largest Club match held for some years. Starting with friendly chat and the draw in the car park at Three Locks, it was a warm but muggy morning, It was the sort of weather the old Luton anglers called breaming weather, and so it proved, some great weights being recorded. The group had chosen to change the venue away from the location scheduled in Leighton Buzzard town centre this week, due to the Canal festival taking place this weekend around Tiddenfoot and they opted for Three Locks as an alternative. Due to expected numbers of extra boats moored for the Canal festival they opted to split the match into two sections, one section below on 3 (A) and one above the locks on 4 (B). As the anglers made their way along the towpath to their pegs the sun appeared, and after the recent rain the Canal was warm and holding a light coffee colour. All were looking forward to a nice day on the bank. During the day they had a number of historic narrowboats pass through heading for the Canal festival. Richard Darbon was the winner this week with 32lb 8oz and he was pegged on Section A, he had a red-letter day. Richard managed 15 decent bream and skimmers, plus a couple of Perch. Richard started on a 5m punch and pinkie line, then went over to the far bank after 45min using a small feeder on a tip rod. He kept loose feeding 5 or 6 casters at a time and caught steadily all day using a small feeder, with a 16 hook baited with single caster. Tim Watts also had a brilliant day, with 2nd in A section with 20lb 12oz. It was Tim’s first outing with the group for some time and he certainly hasn’t lost his touch! He used both a pole and a little waggler rod for the 20lb 12oz of skimmers using dead red and dead pinkie as bait. Adrian Smith, always a class angler was pegged on section B. Adrian started on the inside line with pinkie over groundbait and caught about 2lb of fish before moving to the far side where he alternated two lines, one fishing over groundbait with worm and then red maggot and the other over a chopped worm and caster line to take bream and three good sized perch. Dennis Hunt and Colin Macbeth had a close contest on section A weighing 12lb 6oz and 12lb 2oz respectively with Simon Faulkes and Ash Bunnage going head to head on B with 11lb oz and 10lb 12oz respectively. Total weight caught this week was just over 160lb, giving an average of over 8lb per man. Just as the match finished this week the rain started, and after putting their gear in their cars many of the group retired to have a pint in the Three Locks before returning home, after a great day on the bank. Results:- 1st Richard Darbon Section A 32lb 8oz 2nd Tim Watts Section A 20lb 12oz 3rd Adrian Smith Section B 20lb 10oz 4th Dennis Hunt Section A 12lb 6oz 5th Colin Macbeth Section A 12lb 2oz 6th Simon Faulkes Section B 11lb 1oz 7th Ash Bunnage Section B 10lb 12oz 8th Dave Abbott Section A 8lb 11oz 9th Bart Bonito Section A 4lb 13oz 10th Sean Leatherland Section B 4lb 6oz 11th Andy Frankum Section B 4lb 4oz 12th Andy Norgate Section A 3lb 13oz 13th Richard Gibbs Section B 3lb 8oz 14th Terry Vickers Section A 3lb 7oz 15th Les Burton Section B 3lb 4oz 16th Chris Howard Section A 2lb 12oz 17th Dudley Frankland Section B 1lb 2oz 18th Malcolm Ogden Ray Burton DNW Thanks to Ray and Les Burton for pegging this week, and for Tracy Leatherland and Roger Baker for weighing Section B, the assistance was greatly appreciated. Our next Match on Wednesday 2nd August will be on the River at Wyboston, meet behind North House for the draw at 8.30am am £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 10am till 3pm. 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.

Wednesday Match at 3 Locks

Wednesday Match at 3 Locks

Wednesday Match at 3 Locks

Wednesday Match at 3 Locks

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 23rd July 2023

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

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Pawel Wojcik sent in a picture of a 23lb Mirror carp

Pawel Wojcik - 23lb Beckerings Mirror Carp

Gregorz Gawron did well during a 24hr session at Beckerings on the 14th July catching a few Common carp along with some big bream.

Gregorz Gawron - Beckerings Bream

Gregorz Gawron - Beckerings Common Carp

Gregorz Gawron - Beckerings Common Carp

Alan Lidgley last fished Beckerings in the early 90's Having given up fishing for 26 years he rejoined the club this year and returned to the reservoir for the first time this week to fish for the Roach and was delighted to catch 20 beautiful looking fish ranging from 1lb to 2lb along with a 4lb Tench, Whilst not a big fish he said it was great fun on 3lb line and a size 16 barbless hook and he thoroughly enjoyed the day.

Alan Lidgley - Beckerings Tench

Dave Murdoch fished overnight on Thursday his first carp session for about 10 years. Early on in the session, he lost a monster mirror at the net, which was a massive disappointment. During the night, he had several Bream to 8lb. At the end of the session, a nice roach took his 15mm boilie as he was packing up.

Dave M - Beckerings Roach

Dave M - Beckerings Bream

Jason Mash had 3 stunning Commons and a fish that looks like one of the Ide which were stocked a few years ago. If it is have grown really well since they were stocked a few years back.

Jason Mash - Common Carp - Beckerings

Jason Mash - Common Carp - Beckerings

Jason Mash - Ide - Beckerings

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

The cover photo on the latest Angling Times is of a North House Lake Tench, This was caught recently as they used the venue for one of their features. Always nice to see our waters mentioned in the angling press - Thanks to Kevin Sanders and the Angling Times!

Angling Times cover - North house Tench

Neil Cox hadn't fished North House Lake for 2 years,but on his first session back there he had a 14lb 4oz Mirror and another at 16lb 2oz so not a bad 24hr session,all fish were caught on madbaits

Neil Cox NHL Mirror Carp

Neil Cox - NHL Mirror Carp

Brian Turner had a nice 3lb Eel Saturday night.

Brian Turner - North House Eel 3lb

RIVER OUSE - HARROLD (WDNAC Water Share)

Darryl Stroud fished the Ouse at Harrold which is one of the WDNAC stretches that Luton members can fish on a water share agreement. He had a cracking 5lb Chub in the shallows just down from the bridge it was caught using a boilie.

Darryl Stroud - 5lb Chub from the Ouse at Harrold

RIVER OUSE - LAVENDON MILL Upstream

Members have been making use of the new car park this week. Nobby Clarke fished during the week and he said it was lovely to get to fish the venue and wow what a difference the car park makes!. He thanks all involved in making the car park happen.

He fished hemp and wheat using a whip in 12/13 ft of water , he put a bait dropper down with hemp and wheat, and used wheat on the hook , it wasn’t long and he started getting a few roach and had a very enjoyable few hours , he's planning to be back this coming Wednesday with his mate Geoff so we’re looking forward to the next report.

Nobby Clarke - Lavendon Roach

Nobby Clarke - Lavendon Roach

Bailiff Roger also fished upstream again making use of the new car park he helped build. He had numerous Roach, Skimmers and small Chub,but the catch of the day has to be a Perch that took half a Lobworm. It weighed 2lb 15oz and put up one heck of a fight.He said its good to see plenty of Skimmers and small Chub as he's rarely caught them over the past few years so its looking good for the future.

Roger Bland - 2lb 15oz Perch

Roger Bland - 2lb 15oz Perch

Roger Bland - 2lb 15oz Perch

Neville Hunt fished on Sunday and caught Roach, small chub and perch in Peg 1.

David Murdoch also fished it on Sunday afternoon and it was hard going due to the wind and the bites were few and far between but he did manage a few small chub on Lobworm which were in pristine condition.

Dave M - Chub from Lavendon

Wednesday Match Report 19th July

River Nene Barnwell Plantation

This week, we travelled away to fish the River Nene at Barnwell plantation as guests of Wellingborough Nene Angling Club. The river here is very similar to the Ouse but slightly shallower, very pretty, and holds a good head of fish.

Eight of us made the journey and met in the car park on what was initially a very overcast morning with a temperature of 20C, with the sky threatening rain, which apart from a couple of small showers failed to materialise. The river had a tinge of colour, and a lovely steady flow from left to right with the water temperature at 18.5 C, and fish were topping as we arrived. After we started the weather brightened and we had a very gentle downstream breeze however, in the middle of the match what had been a gentle breeze picked up considerably, generating significant ripple (waves) making float presentation very challenging. The wind dropped away as we neared the end with a return to the benign conditions we experienced at the start, but by then, the damage had been done, and our weights were suppressed!

The match was a very tight affair with two and a half ounces covering the first four anglers this week.

Richard Gibbs our winner with 3Lb 10oz started off on short pole at 4/5 metres feeding small amounts of sloppy groundbait and maggot, with maggot on hook, while loose feeding a waggler line down the middle with hemp, tares, and maggot. He had 20 roach, rudd, and perch in the first hour and then switched to waggler line for bleak, roach and small Chub. When the strong downstream wind appeared, he didn't have a bite for over two hours. He then switched to 1.5grm pole rig at 10 metres, alternating between waggler and pole to take occasional roach and chub until end of the match. He only had one fish on tare, everything came to single or double maggot. The problem for Richard and the rest of us that we probably only hit one bite in three!

Joint second with a tied 3lb 8oz were Richard Darbon and Terry Vickers. Terry fished a waggler in 9ft of water using red and bronze maggot about 2 rod lengths out.

Dennis Hunt was third with 3lb 7oz 8 drm. Dennis started using maggot at around 7 Metres into 10ft of water and had a string of small perch, feeding a dozen grains of hemp every run-through. Switching to hemp on the hook contacted some roach, but the bites died away with indications that fish were taking on the drop made him change to a very light hemp rig fishing at around mid-depth. Although tare was tried this failed to produce the expected bites, so he returned to hemp on the hook. This produced a steady flow of roach (and missed bites) until the wind got up and fishing died, although he did manage a few more fish deep as the wind died away later.

Tony Hickmott has a good tussle with a pike of around 5 to 6lbs snaffled a fish on the way in, finally breaking him as he attempted to net it.

Results

1st Richard Gibbs

3lb 10 oz

2nd (Joint) Richard Darbon & Terry Vickers

3lb 8oz

3rd Dennis Hunt

3lb 7 oz 8drm

4th Steve Osmond

1lb 3oz

5th Malcolm Ogden

1lb 10z 8drm

6th John Barton

1lbs 0oz

7th Tony Hickmott

0lb 7oz

Many thanks to Wellingborough Nene Angling Club for generously letting us fish their water and giving us an enjoyable but challenging day out this week.

Our next Match on Wednesday 26th July 2023 has been changed from Town South to avoid any conflict with the Leighton Buzzard Canal festival the following weekend and will now take place at Three Locks Lower, Section 3. Meet in Three Locks car park £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee - Draw at 8.30 am.

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.

Dennis Hunt - Wednesday Match

Richard Gibbs - Wednesday Match

Wednesday Match at Barnwell

Tight Lines Until Next Week!

Dave M

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Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week ending 16th July 2023

Here is the Luton Angling club weekly news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club.

Eaton Ford - River Ouse
Mark Zan fished the river at Eaton Ford recently and had a nice Bream.
Mark Zan - Eaton Ford Bream
North House Lake
During his 24 hour session on North House at the weekend, Brett Collins had a common and he also had three mirror carp which are 2021 stockies - number 5, 19 and 29

Brett Collins NHL Common

Brett Collins - NHL Stockie No.5

Brett Collins - NHL Stockie No.19

Brett Collins - NHL Stockie No.29

Paul Martin had a 4lb Tench during his night session on Saturday.

Paul Martin - NHL Tench 4lb

Beckerings Reservoir
Jason Mash fished Beckerings on Monday and he had a nice mirror,

Jason Mash - Beckerings Mirror

He fished it again on Saturday braving the very windy weather and had 4 fish one of which (a common) is pictured below.

Jason Mash - Beckerings Common

CRT Regional Celebration Match Three Locks Saturday 15th July.
Well, what a fantastic day on the bank! Today ( Saturday 15th July) was the day of our Regional CRT Celebration Match at Three Locks, for which many of our young anglers had spent a lot of time preparing.

After a dreadful weather forecast, which included thunder, heavy rain, and very high winds which we believe put some competitors off attending, (we had 20 anglers booked and only 13 came) we only had about 30 minutes of heavier rain early on, and the really strong winds failed to materialise. The Canal at Three Locks is quite sheltered, and for the most part the wind didn’t trouble the young competitors. Those who didn’t turn up missed a fantastic day.

We had 6 young cadets, 6 Juniors and a Youth fishing, all with differing levels of experience. For some,it was their first match, and others had competed before,we are pleased to say everyone caught.

Winner of the Cadets was Luton’s Leo Levesque with 4lb 9oz, closely followed by another Luton Cadet Dylan Carr, who was defending his title from last year, and weighed 3lb 7oz. Third was Faris Edwards with 1lb 6oz.

The Junior honours went to Maja Davidson of Tring Anglers with 5lb 8oz, with Luton’s Kaden Dixon second with 4lb 3oz. Third was Alfie Hawkes of Luton with 3lb 2oz. Special mention must be made of Luton’s Daniel Carr, who while finishing last in the Junior section hooked and lost two big fish during the match, one on his pole and the other on his tip rod, better luck next time Daniel!

We had John Ellis of CRT doing Facebook Live broadcasts which can be viewed on the CRT Angling Facebook page and Ian Orbell who organised last weeks benefit match, presented the Junior trophies.

Well done to all those who took part, especially those who framed, and thanks to everyone who supported us in running the event today.

Cadet Results
Leo Levesque 4lb 9oz
Dylan Carr 3lb 7oz
Faris Edwards 1lb 6oz
Uthmaan Haque 0lb 10oz
Alex Ropke 0lb 7oz
Frankie Belone 0lb 3oz

Junior Results
Maja Davidson 5ll 8oz
Kaden Dixon 4lb 3oz
Alfie Hawkes 3lb 2oz
Cody Partridge 2lb 3oz
Louis Owen 1lb 13oz
Daniel Carr 0lb 9oz

Youth Result
Alex Bourne 2lb 12oz

Many of those who attended will compete in the Luton Teams in the CRT Celebration event in Shropshire in September, ‘Come on you Hatters’

Thanks to everyone who helped organise and run this match and all the parents who supported the competitors.

Following the weigh in our Junior winners dad decided to continue fishing and he landed a fantastic perch. Well done Romain.