Here is all the latest news, information and catch reports from all Luton Angling Club waters for the week ending 14th April 2024.
Membership Renewals Update
Membership renewals are in full swing at the moment, all existing Luton Angling Club members are guaranteed a space for the 2024/25 season if they renew before 30th April 2024. On 1st May 2024 any memberships that have not been renewed will be offered to new members on a first come served basis. If you are an existing member and want to renew please do so before 1st May or you could miss out.
Anyone who has renewed already will receive their book and key ready for 1st June and we hoper to starts sending them out in the next week or two.Please be patient as this is a busy time task for our membership secretary who has to fit this all in around his work commitments.
Prospective new members who have registered their email/mobile number on our waiting/interest list will receive an email and text on 1st May as soon as membership for new members goes on sale. All our membership is first come first served so be quick when you receive the text & email as we expect to sell out quickly!
Beckerings Reservoir
Edgaras Balaika had an amazing night at Beckerings last Friday. He had 15 carp out with weights ranging from 14lb up to 25lb 9oz, he also had 3 Bream and lost another 3 fish, 2 of his catches were double takes.
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
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| Edgaras Bailaka - Beckerings |
Jason Mash was not having much success fishing on the bottom at Beckerings on Saturday, so he switched one rod to a zig and had these two nice commons.
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| Jason Mash - Beckerings Common |
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| Jason Mash - Beckerings Common |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
Grand Union Canal
Leo Levesque one of our Junior Kingfisher members and his family went to Three Locks today. Putting all the skills they've learnt into practice, Leo caught loads of fish and Dad Romain had a superb Perch.
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| Leo - Grand Union Canal |
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| Leo - Grand Union Canal |
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| Leo - Grand Union Canal |
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| Romain's Perch - Grand Union Canal |
Fergal O'Kane and Dennis Vivian went to the canal at Grove lock on Saturday. There was one other angler who joined them in the same pound. So not over crowded. They all had a Bream about the 3lb mark, Dennis lost a second one. Fergal had roach, skimmers, perch, gudgeon and a chublet. he did not have any scales, but the best perch looked to be 2lb plus, the next biggest was at least a pound.
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| Grand Union Canal Perch - Fergal O'Kane |
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| Neville's Bream haul from the canal. |
North House Lake
Warren Griffiths had 2 large Bream and a Tench, Jonny Bridgeman had a nice 29lb Common.
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| Jonny Bridgeman - 29lb Common Carp from North House |
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| Jonny Bridgeman - 29lb Common Carp from North House |
The bailiff reported anglers catching a few bream up to 5lb and another had a carp but no size was mentioned. Lots of skimmers and roach also being caught.
Wednesday Match Report 10th April 2024
Beckerings Reservoir
Many of the Wednesday group had been looking forward to our weekly Wednesday match this week, which was held at Beckerings. 21 anglers met in the car park on what was initially a fine clear morning with a gentle breeze. However, this was not to last, and before long, a strong gusting wind appeared, along with some nasty rain squalls. The wind was blowing off the far bank towards the gate bank, and for those pegged on this side, the wind, waves, and rain directly in our faces made it a challenging experience! There was no doubt that the wild day and difficult conditions contributed to lower than expected catches with some very good anglers recording low weights or worse still DNW.
Winner on the day was Jim Tookey, who fished two lines with the feeder one long at 48 Metres and another short at 27 Metres. Jim was fishing groundbait feeder with maggot hookbait. He reported that all his 3 Bream come from the longer line and he had to play about with the presentation to tempt bites, ending with 19lb 5oz.
Second was venue expert and Beckerings bailiff Colin Holmes he said after being pegged on the gate bank, he would have liked to have had wind behind him, but it is what it is! Colin was fishing with 12 wraps (35 / 36 Metres) He started with a 36g feeder but then then went for a less weight at 28g but bigger physical size. His bait was Ringers 6mm wafters in orange or yellow pushed on a twisted wire bayonet spike on the hook loop. His method mix was 2mm ringers and 2mm F1 pellets mixed and soaked. Colin took 2 bream about 7lb each and 3 skimmers for 15lb 15oz.
Steve Lathwell fished the tip all day, taking odd skimmers, and decided to change his groundbait feeder setup to a window feeder with a 16 hook and dead reds and finally hooked a 7lb 10 bream, giving him 9lb 7oz
Dennis Hunt fished the tip with a groundbait feeder and a bunch of red maggot on the hook at 25 Metres to take a 7lb 6oz Bream and a skimmer but lost an unseen fish to a particularly violent take that tried to tow his rod in at one point. Dennis ended with 8lb 1oz, rueing what might have been…
Terry Vickers took a very nice Tench on the float at about 3 Metres off the platform and here were some very nice roach and Ide taken in the backup weights but not a lot of pictures this week due to adverse weather conditions!
Dudley Frankland's 2lb 11oz weight included a nice Roach of 1lb 11oz which he was delighted with.
A big thank you to Mark Sessions and the Beckerings Bailiff team for making us so welcome at the venue
Results
1st Jim Tookey 19lb 5oz
2nd Colin Holmes 15lb 15oz
3rd Steve Lathwell 9lb 7oz
4th Dennis Hunt 8lb 1oz
5th Terry Vickers 7lb 40z
6th Andy Frankum 3lb 14oz
7th Sean Leatherland 3lb 10oz
8th Dudley Frankland 2lb 11oz
9th Andy Norgate 2lb 7oz
10th Richard (Tiptree) Darbon 2lb 2oz
11th Bart Bonito 1lb 2oz
12th Tony Hickmott 0lb 15oz
13th Chris Howard 0lb 12oz
14th Colin McBeth 0lb 10oz
15th Ray Burton 0lb 9oz
16th Simon Faulkes 0lb 30z
17th Dave Ridley 0lb 2oz
18th Adrian Smith 0lb 1oz
DNW Les Burton, Matthew Howard, Malcolm Ogden
Our next Match is on Wednesday 17th April and is on the GUC at Town North.
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, these events are becoming extremely popular and we need to ensure we have room and 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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| Beckerings Match - Dennis Hunt |
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| Beckerings Match - Jim Tookey |
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| Beckerings Match - Steve Lathwell |
Let’s Fish’ Town South Thursday 11 April 2024
The Luton Club coaching team have had a busy time this week, as we delivered our second successful CRT ‘Lets Fish’ event of the week sponsored by the Whitbread community Fund on Thursday, using the Grand Union Canal in Leighton Buzzard.
Being Easter half term, there were plenty of people of all ages eager to give angling a go, and all the events have been fully booked.
To help us capture data of those eager to access our follow on activities we launched our latest initiative, developed by Dave Murdoch our Club IT specialist and Membership Secretary with input from the Coaches, a QR code sheet which is linked to a data capture page which parents can complete.
This enables those attending to register to be sent further details of our coaching programs, and perhaps join our Kingfishers, and give us some feedback on our session delivery . This has already been a great success, generating lots of interest and some new Kingfisher members already. Some of the comments received are below:
Olivia, Fraser, and Ted
Fraser and Ted had a great session with Mark and Adrian, they were patient, enthusiastic and knowledgeable. The boys enjoyed a bit of healthy competition with them.
Nicola and Ben
Coaches were very friendly and explained everything very well to the right level. They boys felt very comfortable around them. Thank you for giving up your time to do these events. The boys came away wanting more!
Ben, one of our new Kingfisher members is pictured enjoying his introductory session with Coach Adrian Smith, during which he caught a good number of fish of several species.
Well done Ben, we wish you great success in your angling journey, and a big thank you to Mum Nicola for supplying the pictures.
Do you know somebody who would like to give angling a go?
If so why not sign up for a CRT ‘Lets fish’ taster Session
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| Ben at the Luton AC Let's Fish Event |
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| Ben at the Luton AC Let's Fish Event |
A Busy End to the Easter Holidays for our Kingfishers.
It’s been great to see so many of our Luton Kingfishers out and about enjoying themselves, some fishing with our coaches and some with their parents this weekend, and all having a great time and catching well.
It’s been great to see so many of our Luton Kingfishers out and about enjoying themselves, some fishing with our coaches and some with their parents this weekend, and all having a great time and catching well.
Adrian Smith one of our Club coaches had to do an ‘Observed’ coaching session on Saturday to complete his L2 Lead Coach certification, so we invited two keen Kingfishers onto the bank at Town South in Leighton Buzzard to help him with this.
Both our young volunteers were called Max, which made a confusing session! Max 1 (Joined us last year and had been out with us a couple of weeks ago, and Max 2) was a newbie who came to his fist ‘Lets Fish’ a week ago having never fished before had a great time.
Adrian started by explaining to the boys how to set up a box, put a pole together properly, attach a rig, and plumb the depth correctly, which the boys enjoyed, and then they were off fishing.
What a fantastic session we had! We started the session using Pinkies fished over groundbait and caught well, then Max 1 asked if he could use Bread Punch, resulting in a great bite and the biggest fish he has ever caught, a fabulous Canal Bream of about 4lbs. Max 1’s Mum will enter this fish for the CRT Catch of the month competition so let’s hope he wins a prize!
Max 2 also caught well and unfortunately lost a big bream but did end up with two at a couple of pounds each, a fantastic session and both boys are enthusiastic to come again next week when we have a Club session at Three Locks. The smiles on the faces of the boys in the picture say it all.
Other Kingfishers have been out with their parents and have been sending pictures of their catches to us, Leo Levesque had a cracking Bream, and Jack out with his dad had some cracking fish, however the best of the session was Dad’s Perch, which Jack is holding.
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| Max 2 with his Bream |
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| Max 1 with his Bream |
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| Leo's Bream |
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| Perch caught by Jack's Dad |
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
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