Here is all the latest news, information and catch reports from all Luton Angling Club waters for the week ending 18th February 2024.
A very wet end to this week (Again!) with River sections in flood conditions. With the canal at Leighton Buzzard being described as "flowing like the river Trent on an ebb tide" forcing the Winter League anglers to move their fixture this weekend to Three Locks where the canal wasn't flowing as fast but was still a horrible colour.
South Lagoon - Closed 24/2/24 for the Predator Match
Don't forget that the South Lagoon at Wyboston is closed next Saturday 24th February for the Luton AC Predator Match. Anyone fishing Friday night must leave the lake by 8am on Saturday Morning.
Beckerings Reservoir
Carp to 20lb have been reported this week though no pictures have been sent in at the time of this report The bailiffs reported that lots of fish were showing. Nice Roach and Ide are being caught as well.
Darren Savage fished Beckerings last couple of Wednesdays and amongst lots of small Roach and Perch his notable catches were a 3lb 4oz Ide and a 1lb 14oz Perch, he also had a 1lb 8oz Roach during this Wednesday session.
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| 3lb 4oz Ide from Beckerings- Darren Savage |
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| Beckerings Perch - Darren Savage |
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| 1lb 8oz Beckerings Roach - Darren Savage |
North House Lake
Despite an amber weather warning for rain this weekend, North House Lake was busy on Friday and Saturday night the bailiffs told me that 7 carp were caught, a couple of Commons around 20lb, a few of the smaller stockies from last October and one of the 2017 Stockies was caught by a Junior which was over 20lb.
NO PARKING!!
Members are reminded NOT to park in front of the large gate as although no longer used for member access it is regularly used to maintain and clean the toilet so access is required at all times to this gate.
Wednesday Match Group Report - 14th February 2024 - Three Locks
20 Anglers turned out for Wednesday's match on the GUC at Three Locks. The weather was a lot milder and dryer than recent days and with a little colour in the canal the anticipation of catching fish was high.
The match was split into two sections with half the field below the locks and the others above past the bridge. This enabled the match to incorporate a drawn pairs with one from each pair in fishing in each section.
Top weight on the day was Richard Darbon. Drawn on peg one above the locks, Richard caught two large bream very early on in the match fishing maggot on the pole and then like most others struggled for bites for the rest of the match. But a few extra small fish meant Richard weighed 6lb 13os for the win.
Second was Richard Gibbs who caught a bream on a small feeder which weighed 2lb 10ozs. Richard was pegged past the boats near the bend below three locks.
Also pegged past the boats was Simon Faulkes who came third with 2lb 4oz made up of a good size bream and perch and a couple of other smaller fish. Simon caught long on the pole.
Another notable performance came from Charlie Robinson who produced a small fish masterclass. Pegged on the 1st swim opposite the boats and having gone biteless for the first hour, a change in tactic to fish bread tight to the far bank produced 43 small roach to weigh 1lb 2oz for 4th place.
However with this being a pairs match, the final results were:
1st - Richard Darbon & Charlie Robinson - 18 points - 7lb 15ozs
2nd - Richard Gibbs & Rober Baker - 18 points - 2lb 11ozs 8drm
3rd - Barry Roper & Ray Burton - 16 points - 12ozs
4th - Sean Leatherland & Adrian Smith - 13 points - 9ozs
5th - Simon Faulkers & Malcolm Ogden - 9 points - 2lb 4ozs
6th - Dennis Hunt & Colin Macbeth - 6 points - 1oz 4drms
7th - Colin Holmes & Tony Hickmott - 5 points - 1ozs
8th - Naula Gray & Les Burton - 4 points - 8drms
8th - Chris Howard & Andy Frankum - 4 points - 8drms
10th - Dudley Frankland & Terry Vickers - 0 points DNW
Individual result were:-
1st - Richard Darbon
Peg -1 - 6 lbs 13 ozs 0 drms
2nd - Richard Gibbs
Peg -19 - 2 lbs 10 ozs 8 drms
3rd - Simon Faulkes
Peg -16 - 2 lbs 4 ozs 0 drms
4th - Charlie Robinson
Peg -11 - 1 lbs 2 ozs 0 drms
5th - Ray Burton
Peg -13 - 0 lbs 10 ozs 8 drms
6th - Adrian Smith
Peg -12 - 0 lbs 8 ozs 8 drms
7th - Barry Roper
Peg -3 - 0 lbs 1 ozs 8 drms
8th - Colin Holmes
Peg -15 - 0 lbs 1 ozs 0 drms
8th - Roger Baker
Peg -9 - 0 lbs 1 ozs 0 drms
10th - Sean Leatherland
Peg -2 - 0 lbs 0 ozs 8 drms
10th - Chris Howard
Peg -20 - 0 lbs 0 ozs 8 drms
10th - Nuala Gray
Peg -18 - 0 lbs 0 ozs 8 drms
13th - Dennis Hunt
Peg -4 - 0 lbs 0 ozs 4 drms
DNW - Colin Macbeth, Dudley Frankland, Terry Vickers, Les Burton, Andy Frankum, Malcolm Ogden, Tony Hickmott
The next Match is Wednesday 21st February on the GUC at The Globe (Leighton Buzzard), meet at the venue for the draw at 8.30am am. £1.00 peg fee and £5.00 optional pools, fish 10am till 3pm.
Parking is very kindly allowed at The Globe pub for the match and most anglers generally have a pint after the match in this lovely pub.
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.
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| Wednesday Match - 14.2.24 |
Finally this week we were sent a photo that was taken in the late 1970's of the Luton Junior Match group, We've been getting information on the names from Ash & Trevor Bunnage via Dennis Hunt. So far we know that Mark Pollard is holding the shield, and 8 of the others are Trevor Riches, Roger Kendall, Andy Ristbridge, Andy Pierson, Ash Bunnage, Nigel Bass, Colin Impey and Martin Impey. Do you recognise any of the others? If you have any very old photos, news articles regarding the history of Luton AC, please do share them as we'd love to see them.
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
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