Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Bank Holiday edition 26th August 2024

Here is this week’s news, catch reports and information round up from Luton Angling Club.

This bank holiday weekend has been another fantastic one for the Luton Kingfishers. Leo fished the CRT Regional match on the Canal at Solihull and continued his winning streak taking first in the Cadet Category. Leo, despite some very heavy rain managed to fish for 3 hours and managed to weigh in a creditable 1Kilo 600grams consisting of some decent Perch and an Eel. His Mum sent us a picture of Leo’s trophies, they are stacking up now and he can’t wait to fish the CRT Celebration match in a few weeks.
Some of our other Juniors had a great day at How End on Saturday afternoon and despite the heavy rain all really enjoyed themselves catching plenty of fish. Alex is pictured with his Golden Tench and Daniel with one of many carp he caught.They also can’t wait to get to the CRT Celebration and represent Luton Angling Club soon.
Well done lads keep it up!
Leo wins again at Solihull.
Leo's growing collection of trophies
Daniel with a Carp from How End
Alex with a Golden Tench
Beckerings Reservoir
Steve Emery sent in a picture of a 28lbs 2oz mirror caught recently from Beckerings. He lost an even better one just 10 minutes earlier in the same session.
Steve Emery 28lb 2oz Mirror - Beckerings
Bailiff Rob had a decent session catching a 20lb mirror off the surface and a 19lb common off the bottom.
Rob - Beckerings 20lb Mirror
Rob - Beckerings 20lb Mirror
Rob - Beckerings 19lb Common
Rob - Beckerings 19lb Common
Amer Jawad had a decent afternoon on bank holiday Monday. On his first cast he had this lovely fully scaled mirror which went 17lb and he also had some bream. All were caught on the method feeder fished 40m out.
Amer Jawad - Beckerings
Amer Jawad - Beckerings
North House Lake
Harry Albone caught a 4lb Tench during a 24hr session.
Harry Albone - 4lb Tench from North House Lake
Lavendon Mill
Lavendon Bailiff Roger Bland has replaced a rotted out platform (6) on the upstream section at Lavendon this afternoon. A great job - Thanks Roger, Roger also reported that a Bream of about 9lb was cuaght by a member using Lobworm as well as the usual catches of mixed silver fish.
Lavendon Platform - After
Lavendon Platform - Before
Lavendon Platform - Before

Wednesday Match Report 21st August Wyboston
This week for a bit of fun we held a ’Drawn Pairs’ match at the Wyboston complex with anglers drawing for a partner and deciding which of the pair would fish the river and which the Lagoon.
We had 16 attending including two of our Kingfisher Juniors, who were able to attend as it was school holiday and really enjoyed the day. The weather had a definite autumnal feel, with a colder night and a daytime temperature just about making 20C, with an overcast and at times strong wind which made it feel quite chilly,
The winning pair D were Adrian Smith and Ash Bunnage, While Ash fished the lake with a feeder coming second on the section with 9lb 14oz Adrian fished the river.
Adrian started on worm and maggot over groundbait with a flat float and caught a couple of perch and a Gudgeon at 6m. He then changed to fish his hemp and wheat line for the rest of the match catching roach at 8m ending 1st with 6lb 11oz.
Second Pair C were Colin Holmes and Dennis Hunt. Colin fished the Lagoon using a feeder at around 30 metres to take first in the section with 14lb 2oz. Dennis fished the river using his whip at around 6 Metres using single red maggot as bait. Dennis’ had 80 odd small fish including some bigger Dace which was nice to see, ending 3rd in section with 4lb 7oz.
Third pairing G were Richard Gibbs and one of our Junior anglers Daniel Carr. While Daniel fished the Lagoon, taking 1lb 5oz, Richard Gibbs fished the river. Richard started off on stick float two rod lengths out in 7ft of water and fed hemp with maggot hookbait. He only had 5 small roach and a few bleak in the first hour.
After two hours he went out on the pole at 11 metres with maggot hookbait over bed of groundbait and took roach and small chub straight away, but this line dried as well so he then went bleak bashing with a 5m whip and had over 60 in just over an hour.
In the last hour he fed more groundbait at 10 metres and started getting some better roach, including a few net fish and caught steadily until the end of the match despite some trouble from Mr Pike! Richard ended second on the river with 5lb 4oz.
Perhaps the unluckiest angler of the day was Daniel who hooked a decent Tench just as the whistle blew, unfortunately it proved to be foul hooked and rolled off the hook before it was landed. Well done Daniel and better luck next time.
Many thanks to all who helped with the admin and weigh in, without the generous help and support running our weekly Wednesday matches would be very difficult.
Results
Lagoon
1st Colin (Bream Maestro) 14lb 2oz C
2nd Ash Bunnage pair D 9lb 14oz D
3rd Sean Leatherland 2lb 12oz B
4th Paul Carr 1lb 12oz H
5th Daniel Carr (Jr) 1lb 5oz L
6th Dave Ridley 1lb 4oz E
7th Dylan Carr (Jr) 1lb 3oz G
8th Les Burton 0lb 15oz F
River
1st Adrian Smith 6lb 14oz D
2nd Richard Gibbs 5lb 4oz G
3rd Dennis Hunt 4lb 7oz C
4th Ray Burton 2lb 6oz E
5th Malcolm Ogden 1lb 14oz
6th Mark Smith 1lb 10oz
7th Tony Hickmott 1lb 4oz
8th Richard Darbon 1lb 2oz
Pairs Points
Pair
Pair D Adrian Smith & Ash Bunnage 15
Pair C Colin Holmes & Dennis Hunt 14
Pair G Daniel Carr & Richard Gibbs 11
Pair B Sean Leatherland & Malcolm Ogden 10
Pair E Dave Ridley & Ray Burton 8
Pair H Mark Smith & Paul Carr 8
Pair A Dylan Carr & Richard Darbon 3
Pair F Les Burton & Tony Hickmott 3
Our next Match is on Wednesday 28th August and is at Twinlakes and all pegs for this are now reserved Draw 8.30 at the venue, £5-00 optional pools £1.00 Wednesday peg fee £10 fishery 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, as we need to 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.
Ash Bunnage
Colin Holmes
LAC Sunday Series - Round 5 - Eaton Ford
Last sunday staged the fifth round of the LAC Sunday Series on the River Ouse at Eaton Ford.
This is an excellent venue for the club, and Stewart, the head bailiff and his team, do an amazing job.
12 anglers attended the match on a warm and sunny day.
This week's winner was Liam Willis. Drawn on peg 16, Liam fished two lines at 6m and 13m. He balled in groundbait on both lines at the start and loose fed hemp. Swapping between maggot, worm, and caster hookbaits, Liam caught a mixed bag of fish, including a chub of about 1.5 lbs and a nice skimmer for a total weight of 7 lbs.
In second place was Dave Smith. Having drawn peg 11, Dave fished a stick float at 4m and 6m and fed using a bait dropper. His maggot hookbait accounted for over 80 fish for 3 lbs 5 ozs.
Third place went to Myles Tommey on peg 7. Myles weighed in 3 lbs 8 drms of small skimmer and roach caught on a pole line with maggot over groundbait before swapping to a shallow waggler rig for bleak and tiny chub.
Generally, the venue fished well for the conditions, and the weights outside the winner were close all round.
The next Sunday Series match is Sunday 22nd September on the River Ouse at Lavendon. Meet at the venue for the draw at 8.30am am. £1.00 peg fee and £5.00 optional pools, fish 10am till 3pm. The pegs are limited so please book early. Also, as the pegs are limited, please only book if you are certain you will attend.
For anyone thinking of joining the Series, there are 8 rounds with the best 5 results counting.
So, with 3 rounds to go, it is still all to fish for.
The matches are open to club members and if you are joining us for the first time can we ask that you message us so we know you are coming before turning up. You will be asked to produce your Club book at first appearance, so please have it with you.
Match Result - Round 5

Overall League Standing

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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