Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area

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

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

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week ending 23rd July 2023

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