Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: August 2023

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Bank Holiday Weekend 28th August 2023

Here is this weeks news, Information and catch reports round up from Luton Angling Club.

Beckerings Reservoir

On Bank Holiday Monday, Graham Bailey had the stunning Half Lin at 34lb the weight was witnessed by Club Treasurer Fergal O'Kane who kindly wound his rods in and assisted with the weighing and photographs.

Graham Bailey - Half Lin - Beckerings

Graham Bailey - Half Lin - Beckerings

Graham Bailey - Half Lin - Beckerings

Fishing a method feeder in the margins, Fergal O'Kane had a 17lb 8oz Mirror.

Edgaras Balaika fished Friday night on Beckerings he had 4 fish, 3 carp up to 24lb and a catfish weighing in at 36lb.

Edgaras Balaika - Beckerings

Edgaras Balaika - Beckerings

Edgaras Balaika - Beckerings

Edgaras Balaika - Beckerings

Nick Lynch had a good 24hr session on Friday - carp of 18lb 2 at 20lb,another at 23lb and the largest at 24lb

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Jason Mash had two Mirrors on Bank Holiday Monday the biggest one is pictured below.

Jason Mash - Beckerings

Craig Mahoney had a beautiful fully scaled mirror last Sunday. It weighed 14lb 8oz

Craig Mahoney - Beckerings

Craig Mahoney - Beckerings

North House Lake
Josh Leher fished North house for the first time on Friday and landed this 21lb 5oz PB common first cast. It was caught on fake corn lowered into the margins near feeding fish, and the bite came within 15 minutes. As a new member for this year, he also commented on how welcoming and friendly the other anglers on the lake were, which is great to hear.

Josh Leher - North House Lake

Lavendon Mill - Upstream

Mark Brooks and Bob Burdiak enjoyed what turned out to be a tough day at Lavendon upstream this week. Bright sun and a downstream breeze made for hard work as Mark fished at 14m on the pole and Bob on the waggler. Roach eventually turned up as cloud cover increased, both were catching the fish on wheat.

Mark Brooks - Lavendon Upstream

Wednesday Match Report 23rd August, River Ouse at Biddenham

There were nine of us fishing Biddenham this week, a smaller than usual turnout due to holidays, hospital appointments and last-minute babysitting duties!

It was a lovely late summer morning, cool and with a slightly damp feel in the air. The temperature soon rose as the sun appeared and we ended with a warm day with the temperature pushing 25C. The river had a lovely colour, and a very slight flow, badly needing rain to increase the flow and perhaps improve the fishing.

Our top dog today was Barry Roper who fished his Cadence whip, alternating between 6 and 9 meters. He started on maggot and caught small roach steadily and with an hour and a half to go started getting bites on hemp to finish with a flourish catching quality roach for 5lb 5oz.

Adrian Smith was second, probably robbed of first place as he had to leave an hour early to catch a flight for a business meeting. Adrian fished 2 pole lines, one at around 9 metres and one at 13.5metres.

He used a flat float on the 9 Metre line using chopped worm over groundbait where he caught most of his fish, mostly consisting of perch and some skimmers with a dace and a chublet. He used hemp, caster and wheat on the 13.5m line, but this only produced a couple of roach, finishing with 5lb.

Ash Bunnage finished third and caught most of his fish at depth in 11ft of water. On his 13 Metre line he used double pinkie, but was plagued with nuisance bleak, on his second line at 5metres he had a few perch on a chop worm/caster to weigh 4lb 2oz.

Dennis Hunt put in a slightly better performance than last week but had a roach taken by a pike twice, and hooked and lost a very strong fish which took hemp in the last 15 mins which ran all over the river before finally throwing the hook in the marginal weed at the edge.

Results

1st Barry Roper 5lb 5oz

2nd Adrian Smith 5lb

3rd Ash Bunnage 4lb 2oz

4th Simon Faulkes 4lb 1oz

5th Dennis Hunt 3lb 3oz

6th Dudley Frankland 3lb 2oz

7th Terry Vickers 2lb 12oz

8th Ray Burton & Tony Hickmott tied with 1lb 2oz

Our next Match on Wednesday 30th August will be on the River Ouse at at Eaton Ford meet in the car park for the draw at 8.30 am £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 10 till 3.

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 Biddenham

Wednesday Match at Biddenham

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!

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Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week ending 20th August 2023

Here is this weeks news and catch reports round up from Luton Angling Club.

River Ouse at Lavendon Mill

The catches are definitely starting to improve at the Lavendon Mill upstream section. Bob Burdiak fished this weekend and had a most enjoyable session catching a good number of decent Roach and he also caught two Rudd.

Bob Burdiak - Lavendon Mill Roach and Rudd

River Ouse at Wyboston

Bill Ridgway had a decent catch of Roach on Wednesday. They were all caught using hemp over sweetcorn.

Bill Ridgeway - Wyboston Roach

The bailiffs have also been out strimming and tidying the swims and pathways along the river.

Wyboston Swims

Beckerings Reservoir

Reservoir regular Jason Mash caught two Common Carp on Saturday the biggest of which is pictured below.

Jason Mash - Beckerings Common

Alan Lidgley had a lovely day at Beckerings Lift Float Fishing 15 feet from the bank in 7ft of water he had a few nice roach and 3 bream with the largest one going 8lb 2oz It put up a great fight on his light gear - 3lb mainline and 14 barbless hook all caught on sweetcorn fished over hemp.

Alan Lidgley - Beckerings Roach

Kyle Thompson-Parkinson had a couple of the stockies during his 24hr session he also had a decent bream which he released in the water.

Kyle Thompson Parkinson - Beckerings Stockie

His dad Paul had a very slow session, but as he was packing up he had a screaming one toner and after a great fight had a 24lb 8oz Mirror in the net. He did say it felt a lot bigger so was surprised it only went 24lb 8oz. He caught it on the new banana wafter from Mad Baits.

Paul Parkinson - Beckerings 24lb 8oz

Paul Presland did a quick over nighterat Beckerings on Thursday, his first catch a Common at 20lb 4oz, followed a couple of hours later by a 26lb 4oz Common. Both fell to Mad bait nuts banana pop ups.

Paul Presland - Beckerings 26lb 4oz

Fergal O’Kane fished the reservoir on Sunday and had a carp of 23lb 9oz a Bream estimated at around 6lb and he also caught a few small Perch.

Our bailiffing team have also been hard at work mowing the grass around the reservoir and otter fence. They really do put in a lot of work on your behalf to ensure the venues are in tip top condition.

Excellent work by the Beckerings bailiffs

South Lagoon

Mark Zan caught a few pike from South Lagoon this weekend. He had few jack pike the biggest was 6lb 6oz. He also missed few bites. He said he had a great session.

Mark Zan - South Lagoon

Mark Zan - South Lagoon

Luton Kingfisher's - Junior and Cadet Team practice at Three Locks.

Our Luton Coaches had a fantastic coaching session with our youngsters on the Grand Union Canal at Three Locks on Saturday.

We had a mixture of Cadet and Junior anglers on the bank practicing the skills they have learned in our coaching sessions and this will help when they represent the Club at the CRT celebration in Shropshire in a months’ time.

We hope to have a record entry to the Celebration this year, the largest event for young people fishing in the UK.

This year we have some talented young anglers, who hope to at least equal last year’s stunning performances, which included a top 10 team finish in the Juniors.

We practiced both long and short pole skills, with pinkies over groundbait, and all our youngsters were catching well, really well done everyone.

We were also giving those representing the club their Luton team shirts, an important part of looking smart and recognised on the banks as part of our Luton Team.

We will hold more practice sessions honing skills before the big day and our young anglers are encouraged to spend as much time on the banks as they can during the school holidays, further refining their skills.

Well done to everyone

Team practice at Three Locks

Team practice at Three Locks

Team shirts

Match Report 16th August Danni’s How End - A disaster for Dennis!

This week we went to fish Danni’s Lake at How End, and a dozen of us met at the fishery on a glorious summer day, warm and with little or no wind, looking forward to our day on a commercial fishery. The lake had good colour and cruising fish could be seen as we went to our pegs.

First place Dave Britton had a red-letter day, catching fish all day on a tip using a hybrid feeder with a 4” hooklink to a size 16 hook. The feeder was filled with Micro’s, and bait was 6mm Red Robin pellet and pineapple pellet, with a few on the fishery 8mm hard pellet. Dave weighed in with 165lb 12oz.

Richard Gibbs who was second fished in a very similar way to Dave Brittain. He fished a small 18grm hybrid feeder loaded with fishery pellet and groundbait using dead maggot as hookbait. He fished long to the island to start but only got small Bream, so witched to the inside line where he had been loose feeding a few fishery pellets and dead maggots and then caught Carp steadily from the nearside all day, finishing with 128lb 12oz.

Jim Tookey finished third fishing both pole and feeder to weigh 114lb 12 oz.

Special mention should be made of improving not so newbie Ray Burton taking his personal best weight ever with 60lb 8oz. Ray had had a great day and was delighted with his bag. Many of those fishing experienced losing big fish, but all enjoyed the day out.

The wooden spoon this week went to Dennis Hunt who weighed in 5lb 8oz for 12th and last place, a performance he will no doubt be keen to forget on a day where it all went badly wrong.

We’ve all had those days, but he enjoyed the sunshine, better luck next week!

Results

1st Dave Britton 165lb 12oz

2nd Richard Gibbs 128lb 12oz

3rd Jim Tookey 114lb 12oz

4th Bart Bonito 90lb 3oz

5th Steve Lathwell 89lb 4oz

6th Sean Leatherland 85lb 4oz

7th Andy Frankum 67lb 2 oz

8th Ray Burton 60lb 8oz

9th Adrian Smith 49lb 8oz

10th Roger Baker 35lb 5 oz

11th Les Burton 27lb 12 oz

12th (Wooden Spoon)

Dennis Hunt 5lb 8oz

Thanks to all at How End who make us welcome, and those who helped with the draw, and for Tracy Leatherland and Pip of How End for helping with the weigh in, the assistance was greatly appreciated.

Our next Match on Wednesday 23rd August will be on the River at Biddenham, meet in the car park for the draw at 8.30 am £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 10. 30 till 3.30.

How End Fishery

Jason Mash won the July prize for this picture of a Mirror from Beckerings, He kindly donated the £25.00 prize back to the club where it will be put to good use at the next work party to feed and water the work party volunteer team with Tea, Biscuits and Bacon Sarnies.

July's winning photo - Jason Mash

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week ending 13th August 2023

Here is this weeks news and catch reports round up from Luton Angling Club. With the improvement of the weather towards the later half of this week we have received quite a few reports especially from Beckerings which is fishing well.

North House Lake

Gregg Taberner fished North House Lake and had a great looking Common Carp weighing in at 32lb.

Gregg Taberner with a 32lb North House Common Carp

Grand Union Canal

After the match on Wednesday at Ivinghoe (see match report below), Chris Howard decided to fish on, and was joined by his son and Grandson.

Chris reported that there was a huge rise of fish to flying ants, and as a result they bagged up on the Roach, Chris sent a photograph of his catch.

Chris Howard with Roach from the Grand Union Canal

Beckerings Reservoir

Nick Lynch caught one of the Ide or it may be a Hybrid from Beckerings he caught it on 2 red maggots and it weighed 3lb on the dot. Its quite difficult to tell sometimes.

Nick Lynch - Beckerings 3lb

Alan Lidgley also caught one of 2lb 12oz he had it on the float with sweetcorn fished over hemp on 3lb line and a size 14 barbless hook.

Alan Lidgley - 2lb 12oz

Damon Smith just had the one carp on Friday night it weighed 18lb 6oz he had it on a skerkro whisky-liver boilie. He also had 4 or 5 large bream and lost a cat to a hook pull after a mammoth 25 minute scrap - he's gutted about it as he had geared up specifically for a cat and used a specific large bait to deter any other fish.

Damon Smith 18lb 6oz Beckerings

Junior Members Kenzie Lynch and Harley Lynch had a great session with Kenzie catching a 20lb 14oz Common and Harley a 20lb 10oz Common.

Kenzie Lynch 20lb 14oz

Kenzie and Harley with Kenzie's 20lb 14oz Common

20lb 14oz

Harley and Kenzie Lynch with Harley's 20lb 10oz Common

Jason Mash sent in pictures of the two biggest of three fish he caught on Saturday.

Jason Mash - Beckerings Common

Jason Mash - Beckerings Mirror

Graham Bailey was back at Beckerings again this week and he had an 18lb 5oz Common and a 6lb 8oz Bream.

Graham Bailey 18lb 6oz Common

Canal & River Trust - Let's Fish Event

The latest C&RT “Lets Fish” run by Luton Angling club took place on Tuesday 8th August on the Luton controlled section of the Grand Union canal at Slapton near Leighton Buzzard it was a very busy and successful event with all the participants catching fish on the day.

The day started well and the children were catching straight away, mostly close in on short pole and whip tactics with pinkie as hook bait.

Our three coaches Adrian Smith, Neil Williams lead by level two coach Mark Brooks were kept busy from the start despite the at times persistent heavy rain with a constant stream of enthusiastic kids and in some cases parents taking part.

Small Gudgeon, Roach and Perch made up the majority of the catches with some small bream putting in an appearance and there were also a few better Roach of around six inches plus.

You can find out more about these free events which are hosted by many angling club's around the country via the canal and River Trust website.

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/fishing/lets-fish

Let's Fish Event 8th August

Let's Fish Event 8th August

Match report Wednesday 9th August GUC Ivinghoe

11 anglers turned out for this week's Wednesday match on the GUC at Ivinghoe. This included two of our junior anglers (Dylan and Daniel) who acquitted themselves very well on the day.

Thanks to Bart for arriving early and pegging the match length, weighing in at the end and for also providing the comedy moment of the day when he dived into the canal like olympian Tom Daley to rescue his pole section. Bart also turned into "Mystic Meg" pre-draw and predicted that pegs 12 and 11 would be good draws.

That turned out to be true.

Sean Leatherland drew peg 12 and made good work of the fancied end peg. After 40 minutes catching fish on the whip close in, a switch to long pole paid off, and he was soon into a run of decent bream fishing at 12.5m with caster. Following a run of boats, his line slowed, and he spent the rest of the match switching between whip and long pole to end with a match winning weight of 13lb 5ozs.

Simon Foulkes on the next peg fished similar long pole tactics using worm and caster and again had a lovely mixed next of some decent bream, roach and perch for his second placed weight of 12lb 6ozs.

At the other end of the match length, Tim Watts focused his attention on the smaller fish and kept fish coming all day to finish with over 140 fish for a superb 9lb 15ozs. Fishing pole and pinkie.

For the other anglers, it was a good day's fishing with a lot of small gudgeon and roach caught along the match length and odd decent perch making an appearance.

The canal itself was alive with small fry fish, shoals of which spent the day scattering from the abundance of perch chasing them.

Special mention to the two juniors in the match Dylan and Daniel who both fished very well for their catches. It was great to see these young anglers on the bank.

1st - Sean Leatherland 13lb 5ozs

Peg 12

2nd - Simon Foulkes 12lb 6ozs

Peg 11

3rd - Tim Watts 9lb 15ozs

Peg 5

4th - Ashley Bunnage 8lb 8ozs

Peg 2

5th - Paul Carr 5lb 2 ozs

Peg 8

6th - Dave Abbott 4lb 15ozs

Peg 1

7th - Adrian Smith 4lb 4ozs

Peg 7

8th - Bart Bonito 2lb 14ozs

Peg 9

9th - Daniel Carr (J) 2lb 4ozs

Peg 10

10th - Chris Howard 2lb 1oz

Peg 3

11th - Dylan Carr (J) 1lb 8ozs

Peg 4

Our next Match on Wednesday 16th August will be at How End Fishery, meet at the venue for the draw at 8.30am.

There is a Day ticket charge for the fishery plus the £5-00 optional pools and £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 10am till 3pm

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time can we ask that 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.

Tim Watts - Wednesday Match on the Canal

If you send in a picture and catch report from a Luton AC water you are automatically entered in to the Photo prize competition and you could win £25.00 Send in your reports and pictures via our social media pages or the club website.