Here is all the latest news, information and catch reports from all Luton Angling Club waters for the week ending 24th March 2024. A few days later than usual as I have been working away.
The club's annual general meeting took place this week on Thursday 21st March. Although well attended only a fraction of our members were at the meeting.
The AGM is an important annual event where you can find out what is going and what is planned for the club in the coming year. Several members were presented with awards for the biggest fish of each species caught last year, Its well worth reporting your catches to us as all catch reports received are considered for the awards.
Roger Baker was awarded with the Diamond Jubilee Trophy which is awarded to a member that has gone above and beyond with assisting the club – Roger has been a key part of assisting and supporting the coaching team with various aspects during most of their Let’s fish events.
Some of our Junior anglers were presented with awards for their achievements and progress as they have done the club proud at various national events and are becoming very proficient young anglers.
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| AGM Presentation |
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| AGM Presentation |
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| AGM Presentation |
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| AGM Presentation |
Renewals and New Membership Update
Subscriptions have been set for the 2024/25 membership season and existing members will be contacted soon (early April) to renew their membership.
Our existing members have priority to renew during April and then any remaining membership is released to new members on the 1st May 2024. If you are an existing member and joined online last year keep your eyes on your email as you will receive an email renewal invitation, you can also renew by clicking the link on the website home page once renewals open in early April.
If you joined via postal application or direct with the membership secretary you should receive a renewal form in the post - if you don't please let us know. Don’t miss out on your renewal as after 1st May its 1st come first served and we expect to sell out quickly again this year.
2024/25 (1st June 2024 - 31st May 2025) subscriptions are as follows:-
Adult (Over 16 Years old on 1/6/24). £110.00
Senior/OAP (Over 65 Years old on 1/6/24) £75.00
Disabled Membership (Registered Disabled/PIP) £75.00
Junior - Including Night Ticket (Under 16 Years Old on 1/6/24. £75.00
Junior - No Night Fishing (Under 16 years old on 1/6/24) £12.00
Family (Couple and 2 Juniors [no night fishing for juniors] £200.00
3rd Rod Upgrade £55.00
Beckerings Reservoir
Amer Jawad fished Beckerings for 4 hours on Monday and had 4 Bream for 31lb and the biggest fish was 9lb 6oz, he had all the fish on the feeder at 40m. He fished again on Sunday for three and a half hours and had another 6 big Bream on the feeder using dead red maggots.
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| Amer Jawad - Beckerings Bream |
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| Amer Jawad - Beckerings Bream |
While Roach fishing using red maggots at Beckerings on Monday, Jason Mash had this plump Perch, which weighed 2.8lb. As usual It's a great quality picture from Jason.
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| Jason Mash - 2lb 8oz Perch from Beckerings |
Nicholas Dunnett found Beckerings was hard going on Sunday, he only managed one carp which was a 2022 stockie caught at 12lb 8oz within an hour of starting the session it was caught on sticky krill Active. This is 2022 stockie 20 which was 8lb 6oz when it was stocked
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| Nicholas Dunnett 12lb 8oz Mirror Carp (Stockie 20) |
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| Stockie 20 in October 2022 |
North House Lake
Bailiff Brian Turner was unable to get on the South Lagoon as it was unusually busy so he opted for a night on North House instead. A stunning 26lb Mirror took a liking to his wicked white pop up and shortly after was in his landing net.
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| Brian Turner - North House Lake |
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| Brian Turner - North House Lake |
Grand Union Canal
Lavendon bailiff Roger Bland did 5 hours fishing on a Luton AC section of the Grand Union canal. It's the first time he's ever fished a canal. He had these 6 Bream on feeder fished Lobworm. All the fish were caught in a 90 minute spell between half one and half two in the afternoon. Soon after that, a boat went through and the bites dried up.he'll definitely be returning to the canal soon to give it a second go.
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| Roger Bland's Canal Bream |
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| Roger Bland with one of his Canal Bream |
On Wednesday Neville Hunt aught these Bream yesterday during a nice bit of Tuesday fishing on the canal at Grove Church. He said the conditions were good and the water was flat and calm. All were caught on worm on the feeder.
Wednesday Match Report 20th March 2024
Wold Farm Podington
This week, we changed our venue due to adverse towpath conditions on the chosen section of the Canal and opted to go to Wold Fam Poddington instead.
Our match was spread over two of venue’s lakes, Moat, and Islands, so we had two sections for pools this week, and having done our draw the day before anglers had the option of going straight to their pegs or getting breakfast at the onsite Café.
Fortunately, the rain soon cleared, and by ‘All in’ the day was fine with a very slight breeze which hardly produced a ripple. The lakes were nicely coloured, and fish could be seen topping.
The day turned out to be an interesting one where the resident Carp preferred to mooch about on the surface and didn’t want to feed, and last week’s results tables were completely reversed as the winners got battered by the tail enders!
Yesterday was a superb example of what Wednesdays are all about as a couple of our members are currently struggling with mobility issues and everyone rallied around to ensure that they could still enjoy their day out.
The day was taken by Steve Lathwell with 38lb 3oz. Steve was fishing Islands and used his pole, starting on 4 mm pellet over micros in 6 feet of water at 10 meters It was very slow, so he started pinging casters to the island where it shallowed up. Fishing this shallow area he found some carp. He had a couple of fish from the near margin, including a nice barbel, to end a hard but enjoyable day.
Richard Gibbs took first on Moat and second overall with 24lb 11oz. Richard spent the first 2 hours throwing a groundbait feeder to an island and had two good-sized Barbel around 3lbs each, plus a Crucian around 2lbs. Then he had just the odd skimmer until all went quiet around midday. He’d been feeding a swim close in with groundbait, caster and dead reds for over 2hrs and switched to this going over it with the pole. It was quiet at first but with an hour and a half to go the swim came to life, and he took a couple of small carp, two more Barbel, two good Chub and Bream about 2 lbs right up until the whistle. His dead red maggot bait accounted for all his fish.
Richard Darbon, on Islands, took third overall with 19lb 0oz, all his fish coming on the pole. He took his barbel on double red maggots and had crucian and goldfish on corn all tight to the bank.
Many thanks are due to all who helped run the day and assisted with the weigh in this week.
Results
Islands Lake
1st Steve Lathwell 38 lb 3oz
2nd Richard Dardon 19lb 0oz
3rd Andy Frankum 14lb 14oz
4th Keith Ward 12lb 11oz
5th Dave Smith 11lb 10oz
6th Adrian Smith 7lb 9oz
7th Simon Faulkes 5lb 1oz
8th Dennis Hunt 2lb 13oz
9th Les Burton 2lb 6oz
Moat Lake
1st Richard Gibbs 24lb 11oz
2nd Colin Holmes 11lb 7oz
3rd Ray Burton 11lb 0oz
4th Dudley Frankland 9lb 10oz
5th Andy Norgate 6lb 14oz
6th Malcolm Ogden 5lb 4oz
7th Terry Vickers 3lb 14oz
8th Roger Baker 0lb 15oz
Overall Results
1st Steve Lathwell 38lb 3oz
2nd Richard Gibbs 24lb 11oz
3rd Richard Darbon 19lb 0oz
4th Andy Frankum 14lb 4oz
5th Keith Ward 12lb 11oz
6th Dave Smith 11lb 10oz
7th Colin Holmes 11lb 7oz
8th Ray Burton 11lb 0oz
9th Dudley Frankland 9lb 10oz
10th Adrian Smith 7lb 9oz
11th Andy Norgate 6lb 14oz
12th Malcolm Ogden 5lb 4oz
13th Simon Faulkes 5lb 1oz
14th Terry Vickers 3lb 14oz
15th Dennis Hunt 2lb 13oz
16th Les Burton 2lb 6oz
17 Roger Baker 0lb 15oz
Our next Match is on Wednesday 27th March, and is at Water End Fisheries, Clophill, which Adrian Smith will run.
Draw 8.30 at the venue £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee, fish 10am till 3pm.
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.
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| Wednesday Match - Steve Lathwell |
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| Wednesday Match - Wold Farm |
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| Wednesday Match - Wold Farm |
Tight Lines Until Next Week!
Dave M
Luton AC
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