Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week ending 3rd December 2023

Here is all of the news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club for the week ending Sunday 3rd December 2023. 

A slow week for reports this week, with very little to report, probably due in part to the sudden cold snap, which came with very sharp overnight frosts.

Beckerings Reservoir

Darren Savage took this great scenic shot of Beckerings earlier in the week, although catching a fish would have been a bonus.

Picture of Beckerings - Darren Savage

The bailiffs report that small Roach and Perch are being caught and a member had a few Bream during a night session.

Match Report Wednesday 29th November 2023 Town North GUC.

Thanks to Terry Vickers for writing this week’s match report as Dennis, Richard and Adrian, who usually write it were not present at the match this week due to other commitments.

This week’s Wednesday match took place on the Town North Stretch of the GUC in Leighton Buzzard. 15 intrepid anglers, turned up, probably more in hope than expectation following the sudden cold snap, which came with a very sharp overnight frost. Three of our affiliated members from Abbey Lads in Southeast London joined us for the day, which shows real dedication. The temperature at the draw was minus 1 degree C rising only to 5 degrees C at the warmest point of the day. The day started misty but turned into a day with clear blue sky later.

The canal was at a good level and carried a good colour, so there were some grounds for optimism. However, the fish thought otherwise, and small fish were generally the order of the day. Only 4 boats passed through during the match, so there were no excuses there.

However, some anglers did find some fish, Colin Macbeth triumphing from Peg 6 with 5lbs 7oz, starting well catching Skimmers and Roach on Bread Punch at 7m. However, most of his fish were caught in the first 90 minutes of the match, after which he struggled. Two pegs away on peg 4, Simon Foulkes had a similar tale, again fishing punch to land 5lbs 3 ½ ounces.

Just to show the vagaries of fishing, Chris Howard a very good punch angler on Peg 5 recorded DNW! Very hard to explain.

In third place was Keith Ward from Abbey Lads on peg 1 weighing in 4lbs 5oz of perch, small roach and skimmers, fishing on pinkies with the fish taken at 14m.

On peg 2 Steve Lathwell managed to finish in 4th place with 4lbs 3&1/2 ounces using similar tactics. Even a liberal feeding of chopped worm didn’t encourage any larger fish into his swim.

Thank big you to Ray & Tracey for conducting the weigh in, Dudley, for organising the draw and thanks to the boys who did the pegging in quite difficult circumstances due to the number of boats present in the section.

Overall, it was quite a hard day and well done to those fishing for sticking it out to the bitter end.

Results

1st Colin Macbeth 5lbs 7 oz

2nd Simon Foulkes 5lbs 3.5oz

3rd Keith Ward 4lbs 5oz

4th Steve Lathwell 4lbs 3.5oz

5th Tim Watts 4lbs

6th Dave Smith 3lbs 14oz (61 fish for 62 ounces!!)

7th Les Burton 3lbs 4 oz

8th Dudley Frankland 2lbs 3oz

9th Dave Whillock 2lbs 2 oz

10th Sean Leatherland 1lb 13oz

11th Ray Burton 1lb 10oz

12th Tony Hicknott 1lb 1oz

Malcolm Ogden, Chris Howard, & Roger Baker DNW

Our next match is Wednesday 6th December 2023 on the River Ouse at Wyboston (the Lagoon being a reserve venue should the weather intervene to affect the river.) Draw at the venue at 8.30 as usual, £5.00 optional pools plus £1.00 pegging fee, Fish 9.30 – 2.30 .

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time please message us so we know you are coming before turning up. This will help us to manage the pegging of the venue which has a finite number of available pegs.

Please bring your club membership book with you as you will be asked to produce it for your first appearance.

Wednesday Match - Town North

Wednesday Match - Town North

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.

November's winner is Graham Bailey with the pictures of the Pike from the South Lagoon. He has kindly donated the £25.00 prize to the work party fund which is used to feed and water our hardworking volunteer work party team - Thanks Graham.

November's winning pictures - Graham Bailey

November's winning pictures - Graham Bailey

That's all we have for this week so, Tight Lines Until Next Week!

Dave M Luton AC www.lutonanglingclub.co.uk www.facebook.com/LutonAC www.instagram.com/lutonanglingclub