Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: November 2023

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week ending 26th November 2023

Here is all of the news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club for the week ending Sunday 26th November 2023.

Night Fishing/Fishing after Dark on Beckerings Reservoir and North House Lake.

it has come to our attention that members are fishing into darkness without booking on. If you intend to fish after sunset or arrive before sunrise at Beckerings/North House Lake you must book on using the process detailed in your membership book on the Night Fishing page.

Wyboston River Ouse

Paul Wilkie fished the Wyboston stretch of the River Ouse on Thursday. It was very slow going but the wait was well worth it as he eventually had this cracking 5lb Chub.

Paul Wilkie - 5lb Chub - Wyboston River Ouse

South Lagoon

Ben Waymont caught an 8lb Pike during a short session.

Ben Waymont - 8lb Pike - South Lagoon

Brian Turner had a bit of a cold one on South Lagoon Saturday night fishing for the Predators. He woke up to a very frosty morning with a good layer of frost covering his tackle.

A cold morning at South Lagoon!

We have had a great response to our Charity Predator Match planned for 24th February 2024 and all the spaces are now taken. Thanks to all the anglers that have paid their entry fees. We are really looking forward to this event!

Beckerings Reservoir

Warren Griffiths braved the windy conditions at the reservoir this week and fishing in the margins on a helicopter rig fished with a Baitworks Atlantic Heat wafter fished over a handful of pellet and innovate bait The Fix had this cracking 27lb 7oz common.

Warren Griffiths - Beckerings Common

Match Report 22nd November 2023 Grand Union Canal Town South

This week the Wednesday match was to be held at Eaton Ford, but the recent rain had led to slippery banks and a very swollen river, so this week we fished an alternate venue on the Canal instead.

Wednesday was a cold late autumn morning, and the dawn broke as we met for our draw with a spectacular sunrise, which started with deep red hues and ended up a lovely orange, before fading to give a fine but cooler day. The starting air temperature was around 5C as we made our way to our pegs.

The temperature climbed slowly to a high of around 10C at midday, before starting to fall again as the afternoon drew on.

The Canal had good colour, but was very full, with a midday temperature of 9C, and due to the rain had a slight flow due to the amount of water discharging from the canal via the overflows.

We had a couple of boats during our match, but both passed us with little disturbance.

Today wasn’t easy for anyone, and weights were quite low for this venue, which usually produces bigger bream. Tim Watts our winner, was delighted when he drew what he thought would be a bream peg. He attacked it for them from the off but it never happened, and unbeknown to him, no Bream were to be caught by anyone else during the match. Tim was getting small roach, but as these don’t usually produce winning weights if the bream show, he initially tried bigger baits to avoid them. This turned out to be a tactical error today, so he eventually went for the roach and got run of better fish with 20 mins to go. Tim ended with 90 Roach for 6lb and took his fish using punch and pinkie as hookbait.

Dudley Frankland fished the bottom of the far shelf feeding chop worm and caster. Dudley took a few bigger Perch using worm hook bait to end with 5lb 8oz.

Dennis Hunt started feeding liquidised bread and toasted crumb at the bottom of the inside shelf at 4 metres and fed a far swim at 11 metres with groundbait and pinkie. Starting on the inside he took roach steadily all day, the far swim failing to produce, ending with 86 roach for 4lb 7oz.

Results

1st Tim Watts 6lb

2nd Duley Frankland 5lb 8oz

3rd Dennis Hunt 4lb 7oz

4th Adrian Smith 4lb 4oz

5th Colin McBeth 3lb 4oz

6th Keith Ward 2lb 8oz

7th Sean Leatherland 2lb 5oz

8th Richard Darbon 2Lb 3oz

9th Andy Frankum 1lb 10oz

10th Steve Lathwell 1lb 7oz

11th Tony Hickmott 1lb 6oz

12 Malcolm Ogden 0lb 8oz

Les & Ray Burton DNW

Our next Match on Wednesday 30th November will be on the GUC at Town North Draw 8:15 at the venue £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 9:30 till 2:30.

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

Wednesday Match

Town South - Wednesday Match

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 19th November 2023

Here is all of the news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club for the week ending Sunday 19th November 2023.

Another slow week for reports this week please send in all your catch reports as we really do need them at this time of year!

Lavendon Mill - River Ouse

Bob Burdiak and Mark Brooks enjoyed a day on the River at Lavendon upstream on Friday. The river had a good flow and good colour.

Bob fished feeder and caster or maggot taking roach from the off. Mark was on the pole but took a while to start catching, but the fish responded eventually. Typically, as Bob walked to Mark's swim to take a photo Mark swung in the smallest roach of the day.

Bob's catch included a Perch of a pound and a half and a Chub of one pound plus.

Mark Brooks at Lavendon Mill - Upstream

Beckerings Reservoir

Reservoir regular Jason Mash was at Beckerings on Friday and his catch wasn't what he was expecting and certainly wasn't the intended species. He was float fishing with 5lb main line and 2lb bottom to a size 18 hook with two red maggots on and had this nice common, It took some good angling skills (and a good amount of time) to land it on such light tackle.

Jason Mash - Mirror Carp caught on light tackle

A few of the work party team were at Beckerings on Saturday replacing a damaged concrete threshold under one of the otter fence farm access gates, This was essential in order to keep our fish stocks safe from predators. Thanks to Mark Brooks, Dave Murdoch, Neville Hunt and Roger Bland for doing this in some quite wet and muddy conditions.

Damaged Threshold (Before)

The team at work at Beckerings

The team at work at Beckerings

Digging below the gate

Beckerings Otter Fence Gate - After repairs

Beckerings Otter Fence Gate - After repairs

Beckerings Otter Fence Gate - After repairs

Match Report 15th November 2023 Moat Lake, Wold Farm - Report by Dennis Hunt

This week the Wednesday match was to be held on the River Ouse at Lavendon Mill, but the recent heavy rain, rise in river levels and saturated ground made this venue unsuitable so an alternate was sought. We decided to hold our match at Wold farm Podington which is situated on the old World War 2 airfield, a co-incidence in the week following remembrance Sunday, We have altered our fishing times to 9:30 am to 2:30 pm because of the clock changes which make it darker in the evenings.

As we met at the venue the sky was clear, and the air temperature was hovering at 6C, and the water at 7C and was holding good colour. The venue looked lovely with the dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves, giving great autumn colour. A stiff breeze a got up around midday, and then died again in the early afternoon. Those in in the sunny swims were luckier than the ones where the sun didn’t shine as these stayed quite cold through the day. The fishing wasn’t easy, with many experiencing a dead spell in the middle of the day and having bites that didn’t sink the floats merely moving them almost imperceptibly sideways.

Taking the honours again was Sean Leatherland, who bagged 17 Carp and 2 Chub. Sean fished his pole with his float rig baited with corn just off the far bank rushes, feeding very small balls of groundbait laced with 2mm Pellet to weigh in 37lb 9oz.

Second place was taken by Steve Lathwell, who fished just off the island in around 3ft of water using red maggot as bait. Steve was using a 0.2 Gram carbon float with spread shotting to give a slow fall so he could search through the water to bag 25lb 10oz

Third was Andy Frankum who fished down the shelf near the island. Andy fed caster and groundbait using double red maggot on the hook to end with 20lb 11oz.

It was disappointing not to be able to fish our first choice of venue this week, but all who fished Wold Farm, a venue I’m sure we will return to in future and enjoyed the day. For once we didn’t even get rained on! We had some who had intended to join us this week having to cancel because of family bereavement, we send them our sincere condolences, and hope you are able to join us again soon.

Our grateful thanks to all those who assisted in running the match this week, especially Sean’s wife Tracy for help with the weigh in.

Results

1st Sean Leatherland 37lb 9oz

2nd Steve Lathwell 25lb 10oz

3rd Andy Frankum 20lb 11oz

4th Colin MacBeth 20lb

5th Andy Norgate 12lb 4oz

6th Dennis Hunt 7lb 8oz

7th Les Burton 7lb 3oz

8th Richard Gibbs 5lb 7oz

9th Ray Burton 3lb 7oz

10th Tony Hickmott 3lb 4oz

Malcolm Ogden DNW

Our next Match on Wednesday 23rd November was due to be at Eaton Ford, but weather and river conditions necessitate a change from the advertised venue so it will now be held on the canal at Town South, Leighton Buzzard. Draw 8:15 at the venue £5.00 optional pools and the £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 9:30 till 2:30.

This week's Wednesday Match Venue - Wold Farm

This week's Wednesday Match Venue - Wold Farm

World War 2 Memorial at Wold Farm

Thats all for this week's report, 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 12th November 2023

Here is all of the news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club for the week ending Sunday 12th November 2023.

A slow week for reports this week please send in all your catch reports as we really do need them at this time of year!

Beckerings Reservoir
Darren Savage fished Beckerings for the Roach this week and while using only 3lb line and a size 16 hook this 26lb 11oz Common decided to take the bait. Amazingly Darren was able to carefully play and land the fish which must have been a real challenge on such light gear. He also had a Roach and numerous small perch during the session.

Darren Savage 26lb 11oz Common Carp from Beckerings

A few years ago we stocked Ide into Beckerings reservoir all at around 6-8" in size these Ide have grown very well and are now around the 2-3lb mark. To complete the last phase of our 2023 stocking program we added a further 300 6-8" Ide from the same supplier (Epperstone Park Hatcheries) These fish are fast growing and feed well all year round so provide good fun for our members.

Ide for Beckerings

Ide for Beckerings

South Lagoon

On Sunday, Fergal O'Kane had a 10lb 4oz Pike on Smelt

Fergal O'Kane 10lb 4oz Pike from South Lagoon

North House Work Party

On Saturday the wpork party crew assembled at North House Lake and carried out general venue maintenance. We cleared a number of snags from the water, thinned the reeds on some of the swims, cleared undergrowth around the otter fence and trimmed overhanging branches that encroached swims. A huge thanks to the volunteers who assisted.

I apologise if I miss anyone here... Brian and Kieran Turner, Neville Hunt, Dennis Vivian, Fergal O'Kane, Bob Burdiak, Mark Brooks, David Murdoch, Josh Townsend, Barry Stevenson, Daniel Hussey,David Nicholson, Des Saunders and not forgetting Andy Smith who did a fantastic job feeding and watering the volunteers. Also, I can't forget 5 year old Mason who did a great job on his first Luton AC work party.

North House Lake Work Party
North House Lake Work Party
North House Lake Work Party
North House Lake Work Party
North House Lake Work Party
North House Lake Work Party
North House Lake Work Party

Our next work party is at Beckerings on 18th November where we will be repairing a concrete plinth under one of the otter fence gates and having a bit of general maintenance and a venue tidy up.

Match Report 8th November 2023 Yasis, How End

As we gathered at How End for this week’s match on Wednesday morning, it was dark and wet following a cold night. Fortunately, as we were unloading our cars and doing our draw, the rain eased, and then stopped, and the breeze dropped, although it wasn’t terribly warm.

These conditions persisted until Midday, when the sky became darker, the wind got up and a heavy rain squall appeared. This lasted about 30 minutes, and then abated but the cold wind persisted, dropping away about an hour later.

The lake had good colour, and anglers could see the occasional fish topping as we set up, and all of us were looking forward to a good day.

Jim Tookey had a red-letter day, Jim fished two lines one at 9 Mtrs and another margin line feeding 4mm Pellets with 6mm pellets on the hook to end with a catch of mostly Carp for 104lb 9oz.

Sean Leatherland took second place, fishing single red maggot over small nuggets of groundbait midway across weighing 64lb 10oz.

Third place this week was taken by Myles Tommey. Myles started off fishing maggot over small balls of groundbait, but was only catching Ide, with odd small Barbel, so he switched tactics feeding micro pellet and banded pellet hookbait and started to catch the Carp ending with 59lbs.

All of us enjoyed the day despite the inclement weather, and as usual we record our very many thanks to Phil, Tanya and Pip at How End and to those who helped run the day, especially Tracy and Ray for doing the weigh in for us.

Results

1st Jim Tookey 104lb 9oz

2nd Sean Leatherland 64lb 10oz

3rd Myles Tommey 59lb

4th Dave Britton 49lb 1oz

5th Steve Lathwell 45lb 7oz

6th Colin McBeth 36lb 15oz

7th Andy Frankum 32lb 9oz

8th John Gray 19lb 5oz

9th Nuala Gray 18lb 10oz

10th Dennis Hunt 18lb 2oz

11th Les Burton 13lb 2oz

12th Andy Norgate 10lb 7oz

13th Ray Burton 10lb 6oz.

Our next Match on Wednesday 15th November will be at Wold Farm, a change from the advertised venue due to river conditions. Draw 8.30 at the venue £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, plus fishery peg fee, fish 10 till 3, and this week breakfast can be ordered in advance if required.

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week ending 5th November 2023

Here is all of the news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club for the week ending Sunday 5th November 2023.

The terrible weather this week with the arrival of Storm Ciaran kept many people off the banks and there have been noticeably fewer reports. River levels and flows remain high with further rain forecast this week. We have had a few hardy members who decided to brave the conditions and have been rewarded with some good catches.

Back by Popular Demand!

Predator Match - South Lagoon - Date Saturday February 24th 2024

BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW AS SPACES ARE LIMITED

We will be holding another predator match on the South Lagoon on Saturday 24th February 2024. There are 20 places available. Open to both club members and Day Ticket anglers

Book your place using the link below. Entry is £10.00 and £5 of this goes to charity and the other £5.00 into a prize pot split between 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. The entry fee must be paid in advance and Day Ticket anglers must also purchase a day ticket on the day.

Click here for more details on how to enter.

Enter the Predator Match - February 24th 2024

Beckerings Reservoir

Liam Murphy was one who wasn't put off by the weather forecast fishing right through the storm on Thursday night, it paid off as he caught two carp believed to be a couple of the 2022 stockies number 21 & 22 weighing around 12-13lb.

Liam Murphy - Beckerings Stockie caught during Storm Cieran

Liam Murphy - Beckerings Stockie caught during Storm Cieran

South Lagoon

Reports of plenty of skimmers being caught, Graham Bailey had two extremely wet, windy and muddy nights on South Lagoon. He landed 6 pike from nine runs, 3 jacks to maybe 4 or 5lb and three bigger fish that weighed 11lb 8oz, 16lb 4oz and the biggest one of the session which was a little over 23lb.

Graham bailey - South Lagoon Pike

Graham bailey - South Lagoon Pike

Graham bailey - South Lagoon Pike

North House Lake

Bailiff Brian had a go for the Pike on North House, he landed no fish but did miss a take on a Mackerel tail.

Match Report 1st November 2023 Three Locks Upper & Lower

Following the clock change at the weekend we had been expecting a lighter morning this week, but due to early overcast with wind and rain, this didn’t happen. With the numbers expected, we had decided to put a Section (A) below Three Locks and another Section (B) above the flight with 10 pegs in each.

Following the recent rain, the canal was highly coloured, with a midday water temperature of 11C. The weather forecast for the day wasn’t great, and we did have four seasons in one day, but it wasn’t generally as bad as we had perhaps initially expected.

The fishing however turned out to be difficult and somewhat patchy, some anglers struggling to catch, and recording DNW, which may have been due to the approach of storm Ciaran and the associated drop in air pressure.

The overall winner Tim Watts, who was pegged on section A and got a peg on the boats. At first, he wasn’t overly pleased with it, however it fished well. Tim reported no small fish at all, just a good stamp, and so had to wait and work for bites. He rotated and fed 3 separate areas down the far shelf, further over, tight to the boat and inside lines. He reported feeding quite heavily, going for it, which was a risky strategy, and he ended not getting a bite in the last hour. He ended up with 12lb 14oz for the win, made up with Skimmers a big Roach and a big Perch.

Our Winner on B section was Andy Frankum, who had a bit of a mare of a day losing 3 big bream, what he thought were a couple of big perch, and a couple of rigs to snags. He tried all sorts, changing rigs and hooks, but try as he might, they still fell off! Andy finished a frustrating day with 4lb 4oz.

Second on A was Colin MacBeth with 5lb 5oz, with Tony Hickmott third, and on B Sean Leatherland took second place by fishing short at 3Mtrs for the first half hour and then going to 11Mtrs where he fished worm and red maggot to take mostly small fish and a bonus perch and skimmer, ending with 3lb 15oz, beating Richard Darbon who fished short using pinkie over groundbait by 1oz!

Despite the relatively low weights this week, we all enjoyed the day, and we didn’t get too wet, although it was getting rather dark as we left the bank, a taste of things to come.

Thanks to all those who helped with the pegging, weighing, and admin again this week, without the team effort, we couldn’t run our weekly day out.

Results Section A

1st Trim Watts 12lb 14oz

2nd Colin McBeth 5lb 5oz

3rd Tony Hickmott 2lb 8oz

4th Bart Bonito 1lb 12oz

5th Ray Burton 1lb 9oz

6th Les Burton 2oz

Malcolm Ogden, Terry Vickers, Dudley Frankland DNW

Results Section B

1st Andy Frankum 4lb 4oz

2nd Sean Leatherland 3lb 15oz

3rd Richard Darbon 3lb 14oz

4th Dennis Hunt 3lb 10oz

5th Simon Faulkes 2lb 11oz

6th Adrian Smith 2lb 8oz

Richard Gibbs, Jim Tookey, David Nicholson & Dave Abbott DNW

Our next Match on Wednesday 8th November will be at How End, where all pegs are now allocated, draw in the car park at 8.30 am £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 10 till 3. Please do not arrive at the venue before 8 or park in the lane.

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time on any of our fixtures, 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 1st November 2023

Wednesday Match 1st November 2023

Wednesday Match 1st November 2023

Our reports tend to slow down at this time of year, so please do send in any content to keep the weekly reports alive through the winter months. Any content you can provide is appreciated even if its not catch related, even just pictures from the venues, updates on river conditions and as weather gets colder whether waters are frozen etc as this information is helpful for us to share with our members. Don't forget any catch pictures submitted are automatically entered into our monthly photo prize competition where a picture is selected by the committee to receive a £25.00 cash prize. The chosen winner for October was Colin Barden with his Pike from the South Lagoon.

Colin Barden - October Photo Prize winner

Tight Lines Until Next Week!

Dave M

Luton AC

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