Here is this weeks news, information and catch report round up from Luton Angling Club.
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
Existing club members can now RENEW their membership for the 2025/26 season which starts 1st June 2025. Existing members have priority to renew during April. On 1st May any remaining membership will be offered to New Members,
South Lagoon Wyboston
Andy Smith sent pictures of two carp he had from South Lagoon yesterday while feeder fishing. He also had a few good bream and small roach, most people fishing had carp on the feeder. There seems to be more carp coming out than bream at the moment and the place fishing well.
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| Andy Smith - South Lagoon, Wyboston |
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| Andy Smith - South Lagoon, Wyboston |
Warren Griffiths had a couple of carp on a couple of evening visits.
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| Warren Griffiths - South Lagoon |
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| Warren Griffiths - South Lagoon |
Brian Turner the venue bailiff spent some time scraping the track on Saturday, it's not like the A1 however is a big improvement. Thanks Brian for all your efforts!
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| Track at Wyboston |
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| Track at Wyboston |
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| Track at Wyboston |
Warren Griffiths had two carp on a quick morning visit, Weights were 27lb 7oz, and 18lb 9oz. He was on his way out from a walk round, when he spotted the smaller of the 2 feeding, so went back in with the essentials.
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| Warren Griffiths - North House Lake |
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| Warren Griffiths - North House Lake |
Ben Waymont had a 23lb Common
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| Ben Waymont - North House Lake |
Beckerings Reservoir
Martin Scholes did 24hrs on Beckering, he had his first fish just before 9pm which was a 12lb 11oz Common. Then it was quiet for the rest of the night, just before 10am the next morning he had another Common at 12lb 12oz. Then just as he was packing up for the day he had a Mirror at 16lb 4oz there is no picture of the 12lb 12oz Common, The first fish was caught using an 18mm essential cell wafter and the other two were caught on essential cell 15mm boilies.
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| Martin Scholes - Beckerings |
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| Martin Scholes - Beckerings |
Jason Mash had a cracking Mirror which was the best one of the two carp he had while fishing on Tuesday, He was back at the reservoir on Friday and it was a struggle as nothing was coming off the bottom. He managed a nice common off the top, but with ducks nailing everything he put out , it wasn’t at all easy.
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| Jason Mash - Beckerings |
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| Jason Mash - Beckerings |
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| Jason Mash - Beckerings |
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| Jason Mash - Beckerings |
Luton AC 2025/26 Coaching Program
Our summer coaching program is now in full swing with our qualified and DBS checked coaches delivering CRT ‘Lets Fish and Club coaching sessions. We look forward to a busy summer and for our talented young anglers to again do well in the CRT Regional events and the Daiwa sponsored CRT National Celebration held in Shropshire in September. Many of our Cadets and Juniors can’t wait to attend again and are already booked on.
The first public ‘Lets Fish’ event of the year was held on Town South last Saturday 5th April and was well attended with all who came catching fish, generating much excitement, with several of those who came indicating they would like to join the Club. We have a further ‘Lets Fish’ introductory session being held on the Canal at Town South this Tuesday 15th April.
This Saturday afternoon we ran an extremely successful club coaching session where our young anglers, who couldn’t wait to get back on the bank again demonstrated they hadn’t lost any of their skills over the winter and demonstrated they had learnt some new ones at our winter classroom sessions, all showing good technique and catching fish. The best fish today was taken by Alex, who bagged a very nice perch that was over 2Lbs.
If you know a prospective young angler who would like to learn to fish you can either search for the next ‘Lets Fish session or contact the Club directly and we will try to help you.
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| Luton AC Coaching program |
Book Giveaway
We don't usually advertise anything social media pages, however this is a little different and we have a couple of books to give away via a draw.... For years now, one of our long term members Christopher Willis has harboured a secret wish to write a book documenting some of the many eventful days and experiences that have occurred throughout his angling life. Due to work commitments and fishing however, he never really had the time to devote to it. But recently he found himself in a situation, through unforeseen circumstances, whereby he had a lot of time at his disposal, and it seemed the perfect time to fulfil his wish. When it came to actually sit down and begin writing he found himself a bit stumped as to where to start. He had such a multitude of memories, many of which lacked clarity. Now and then a photo, or an old piece of tackle from the early days brought a day or a fish, long since forgotten into sharp focus, but for the most part much of it was indistinct. Most of the catches, days and friends merged into one huge memory without detail. But some did retain clarity, probably because they've meant so much to him, coupled with their frequent inclusion in fishing conversations with angling friends.
When Chris began writing this book his intentions were that he would write his experiences in sequence, as they occurred throughout his angling life, but he soon realised it was hopeless.
As he recounted and wrote about one event, another, that occurred earlier or later in his fishing life would come to mind. But then he thought, does it really matter?
So, in the end the book is mostly a collection of his personal fishing stories, and some opinions that he wanted to share. It certainly is not a book about how to catch - that has been done a thousand times - I am told that some of the recollections are based on Luton and Vauxhall river stretches though the real venue names aren't mentioned.
The book is now available on amazon https://amzn.eu/d/hIkuBye
Chris has kindly given us 2 copies of the book which we will put in a draw which is open to any Luton AC member. Just submit your name, membership number and email address using the form at the link below (Entry closes 30/4/25) and we will draw 2 names randomly.
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| Memoirs of the Banana Man - By Christopher Willis |
Match Report Wednesday 9th April 2025 Beckerings Reservoir
This week’s match was at Beckerings Reservoir, and we had been looking forward to it for some time. We had a good turnout of 19 anglers, including one of the Luton Juniors fishing, with another couple unfortunately having to withdraw at the last minute due to sickness, and we were all hoping that with the recent warmer temperatures the fish would show.
A very cold brisk North Easterly wind was blowing across the reservoir making it feel colder still for those on the Steppingley bank facing into the wind.
Our Werthers Willie Wonka style Golden ticket competition continued, and this week only one ‘Golden Ticket’ was drawn, the other was left in the tin so three prizes are up for grabs next week!
Our match winner this week was Amer Jawad, who started on the slider at 28m for a few small fish and a decent skimmer. A cormorant dived down on his slider line and that was that. No more bites ensued. He then moved out to 45m on the feeder with worm on the hook and sat there for about an hour until he picked up his first bream of around 8lb. Another bream followed 30 minutes later, then the cormorant returned and seemed to unsettle the fish. He managed one more late bream on the feeder to end with 18lb 6oz and the win.
Second place was taken by Andy Francome who feed 4 balls groundbait laced with dead maggots at six metres out. Andy was fishing waggler with 2 maggots on a 16 hook, loose feeding maggots every cast tom end with 5lb 4oz.
Third was taken by Bart Bonito who ran Andy pretty close, ending 4oz behind with 5lb 0oz.
Joint 4th were Richard Darbon and the in form Dave Ridley who both had 4lb 8oz. Richard Darbon after 2 hours blanking on a feeder setup decided to change tactics and set up his whip. Richard fished at 7m, alternating between single maggot and double pinkie feeding half a dozen maggots every cast. Dave Ridley opted to fish a waggler at 12-16m using red maggots and pinkies. He caught some decent roach, of which one must have been well over 1 lb.
After that the weights rapidly tailed away on what really was a disappointing day.
Thank you to Tony Hickmott for the Werthers, Ray Burton for organising the financial side, and all those who helped with the weighing in.
Results
1st Amer Jawad 18lb 6oz
2nd Andy Francome 5lb 4oz
3rd Bart Bonito 5lb 0oz
4th Joint Richard Darbon & Dave Ridley 4lb 8oz
6th Sean Leatherland 1lb 8oz
7th Simon Foulkes 1lb 1oz
8th Dave Whillock 0lb 13oz
9th Terry Vickers 0lb 10oz
10th Chris Howard 0lb 2oz 8drm
11th Steve Lathwell 0lb 2oz
Brian Shaw, Daniel Carr, Dennis Hunt,Dudley Frankland, Howard Hornby, Paul Car, Ray Burton, Tony Hickmott DNW
Our next match is Wednesday 16th April at Twin Lakes. Draw at the venue at 8.30 as usual, £5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 Luton pegging fee, £10-00 fishery peg fee Fish 10.00am – 3.00 pm.
For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time please message us so we know you are coming before turning up.
This will help us to manage the pegging of the venue which has a finite number of available pegs.
Please bring your club membership book with you as you will be asked to produce it for your first appearance.
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| Amer Jawad - Match at Beckerings |
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