Here is all the latest news, information and catch reports from all Luton Angling Club waters for the week ending 17th March 2024.
Annual General Meeting
The club will hold its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 21st March 2024 at 8pm at the usual venue - Stopsley Working Mens Club, Putteridge Road, Luton. Members are encouraged to attend to keep up with club affairs. Remember to bring your membership book for proof of membership and eligibility to vote. There is ample free parking and a bar is available.
Beckerings Reservoir
The roach did not want to play at Beckerings on Wednesday, so Darren Savage had a go for the carp instead. He caught 3, including the stunning half lin at 33lb 6oz
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| Darren Savage - Half Lin at 33lb 6oz |
Grand Union Canal
Neville Hunt had a few Bream 1 to 2Ib while fishing the canal at Grove Church on Saturday. He had them on cage feeder with worms. An overcast day with no wind, there were also very few boats, and the water was flat and still.
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| Neville Hunt - Bream from the GUC at Grove Church |
Mark North fished the canal at Slapton on Saturday and had a few fish on the whip using bread. Unfortunately, he couldn't use the car park as despite the prominent keep clear signage, an inconsiderate person had parked their car in front of the gate.
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| Mark North's catch from the GUC at Slapton |
North House Lake
The bailiffs reported an 18lb Mirror being caught at the weekend and also 3 of the stockies made an appearance. On Sunday the venue bailiffs deployed bundles of barley straw in to the lake, in total two large bales of barley straw were put in onion sacks and deployed at various locations around the lake, Barley Straw as it decomposes releases a chemical that prevents algal blooms and has proved quite successful at North House over the last couple of years.
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| Barley Straw at North House |
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| Barley Straw at North House |
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| Barley Straw at North House |
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| Barley Straw at North House |
Rivers
The close season came into force on 15th March, members are not allowed to fish any rivers until 16th June, Under the salmon and freshwater fisheries act, 1975, It is an offence to fish for freshwater fish and eels from 15th March to 15th June (both dates inclusive) prosecution can result in a significant fine and a criminal record. If you witness any illegal fishing please report to the EA hotline on 0800 80 70 60.
Coaching Donation
The club coaching team would like to thank Spotted Fin - Match in St Albans for their extremely generous donation of bags of groundbait, caps, box stickers and keyrings which will be used for Junior match prizes. https://www.facebook.com/spottedfin.match if any other tackle shop or manufacturer would like to donate bait or equipment to support our young anglers and the coaching activities please get in touch.
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| Donation from Spotted Fin for our young anglers and coaching program |
Match Report 13 March 2024
GUC Town South
As the anglers met at the White bridge on Town South for our draw, we were all slightly apprehensive as to what the day would bring. After signs that the canal was starting to fish again last week, we had another huge amount of rain at the weekend resulting in the canal having a dark coffee colour and flowing strongly over the overflows into the adjacent River Ouzel. The overnight temperature had been mild, and the day was warm but overcast, with a strong and gusty breeze. Water temperature though was measured at nearly 10C so was much warmer than recent days.
The match was pegged either side of the white bridge, and having reached our pegs there was confirmation the day was going to be challenging due to the high colour, strong flow and wind. Keith Ward stood up mid match to stretch his legs, and a strong gust of wind took 3 top kits off his roost and into the Canal. Fortunately, quick thinking Andy Norgate on the next peg saw this happen, jumped up and was able to rescue the top kits from the canal before they sank, much to Keith’s relief.
Dennis Hunt our winner had a peg on the Ouzel overflow opposite Mentmore recreation ground and noticed that while there was very strong flow on the inside with water going down the overflow, but the water 6 metres out was significantly calmer so opted to try this line from the off, holding back and easing the float through the swim.
Dennis used a .5 gram wire stem float bulked down, with a size 20 hook. The float buried on the second run through, and a nice Canal bream fought hard in the strong flow, which gave some confidence the canal would fish, and was soon followed by another.
Dennis lost another large fish (perhaps foul hooked?) five minutes before the all out.
The two bigger bream in his in his 20 fish catch were probably just over 3lb each and showing spawning tubercles. He also had two cracking roach one about 8 oz and one bigger probably 10 oz. He took his fish on 4mm bread punch using toast crumb and liquidised bread mixed as groundbait fed in small balls via a pole cup.
Barry Roper took second with a catch consisting of four large bream caught on chopped worm at 11 metres. Because of the strong flow he used a 1.5 gram float, and Barry commented the flow made netting the big bream very tricky.
Adrian Smith took third place. He feed three lines, one close-in, one at 9 metres (both these with Groundbait and pinkie) and at 13 metres (chopped worm).
He started close-in and caught a nice skimmer and two smaller ones on pinkie before bites dried up. He then moved over to 13m line and had a small roach, but fish were crashing in the reeds, so he moved line again to 9 metres where he caught steadily throughout the match taking some nice skimmer and hybrids on pinkie. Adrian lost two bigger fish – suspected to be large bream.
Despite the challenging conditions the fish showed this week and all attending enjoyed not getting wet! Many Thanks for Tracy and Roger Baker who assisted with weighing in this week.
Results
1st Dennis Hunt 16lb 4oz
2nd Barry Roper 15lb 14oz
3rd Adrian Smith 13lb 5oz
4th Jim Tookey 8lb 11oz
5th Richard Gibbs 6lb 0oz
6th Tony Hickmott 5lb 1oz
7th Richard Darbon 3lb 15oz
8th Simon Faulkes 3lb 14oz
9th Les Burton 3lb 10oz
10th Steve Lathwell 3lb 2oz
11th Colin Holmes 3lb 2oz
12th Dave Smith 2lb 121oz
13th Terry Vickers 1lb 12oz
14th Sean Leatherland 0lb 15oz
DNW Andy Norgate and Ray Burton
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| Wednesday Match 13.3.24 |
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| Wednesday Match 13.3.24 |
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| Wednesday Match 13.3.24 |
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| Wednesday Match 13.3.24 |
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
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Tight Lines Until Next Week!
Dave M
Luton AC
www.lutonanglingclub.co.uk
www.facebook.com/LutonAC
www.instagram.com/lutonanglingclub
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