Here is this week's news information and catch report round up from Luton Angling Club which includes this bank holiday weekend.The fish in our waters are certainly starting to wake up and we are starting to receive numerous catch reports from our members.
Membership Renewal Reminder
Another reminder to any existing members that have not yet renewed their club membership - You only have until the end of April to guarantee your place for the 2025/26 membership year (1st June 2025 - 31st May 2026)
Existing members are only given priority to renew up until 1st May 2025. On the morning of 1st May 2025 any memberships that have not been renewed will be offered to NEW MEMBERS. We expect these to sell out very quickly so please make sure you renew before the end of April to avoid missing out.
North House Lake - Wyboston
Brett Collins had a superb Mirror from North House Lake during his 24hr session at the weekend.
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| Brett Collins - North House Lake |
Warren Griffiths had a 4hr morning trip to North House Lake, which produced 2 mirror carp 18lb 5oz and 16lb 2oz. I think this is possibly number 11 and number 24 from the 2021 stocking.
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| Warren Griffiths - North House Lake |
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| Warren Griffiths - North House Lake |
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| Warren Griffiths - North House Lake |
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| Number 24 when it was stocked in 2021 |
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| Number 11 when it was stocked in 2021 |
South Lagoon - Wyboston
The lagoon continues to fish very well with lots of anglers reporting good catches. Amer Jawad had a nice late afternoon session and had plenty of bites.
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| Amer Jawad - South Lagoon |
Wieslaw Lewandowski had a cracking 3lb 5oz Perch and he also had a nice Roach and a Carp.
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| Wieslaw - Perch - South Lagoon |
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| Wieslaw - Perch - South Lagoon |
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| Wieslaw - Carp - South Lagoon |
Rod Gladston had a Mirror carp. I believe it's the first carp he's had from the Lagoon. A lot of the flood escapees seem to have made the Lagoon their home as we've never had so many carp reported from there.
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| Rod Gladston - South Lagoon |
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| Rod Gladston - South Lagoon |
Matt Mardlin also caught his first ever South Lagoon carp.
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| Matt Mardlin - South Lagoon |
Bill Ridgway fished on Peg 4 at South Lagoon on Monday 14th. He had one nice Bream about 6lb and lost a good carp at the net .He was fishing a Size 14 to 4lb hook length with 3 reds.
Beckerings Reservoir
Ben Waymont had 4 mirrors the biggest being 26.8lb and the others at 21lb, 20lb and one smaller around 10lb.
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| Ben Waymont - Beckerings |
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| Ben Waymont - Beckerings |
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| Ben Waymont - Beckerings |
Carlo Borromeo had somewhat of a red letter day 24hr session, catching 8 carp.
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
Nick Lynch had a Catfish at 37lb and an 18lb Mirror. Both were caught on Mamba Baits Shrimp + Pepper.
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
Jack O'Dell had a 25lb Mirror from Beckerings yesterday. This fish is a new PB for him.
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| Jack O'Dell - Beckerings |
Prior to his Friday night session on North House, Brett Collins did Thursday night at the reservoir and had a Common and a Mirror.
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| Brett Collins - Beckerings |
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| Brett Collins - Beckerings |
Grand Union Canal
One of our young anglers, Jack O Brien went to the three locks for a few hours on Monday and on the first chuck had a nice bream that fought way too hard on his light elastic. He had it on a single pinkie over a ball of groundbait. He only had one other perch on this line before the swim died, then he tried another line of chopped worm and casters near a boat. He had some bites but no fish. He commented that Three locks is tough fishing at the moment, with bites being available but hard to produce.
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| Jack O'Brien - Grand Union Canal |
Lee Waring had a short 2 hour session on the Grand Union yesterday he had some nice Bream and a 2lb+ Perch. Interestingly, the Perch was missing it's stripes.
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| Lee Waring - Grand Union Canal |
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| Lee Waring - Grand Union Canal |
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| Lee Waring - Grand Union Canal |
Match Report - Wednesday 16th April 2025
This week’s midweek match took place away from home waters. We descended upon Twin Lakes Fishery at Bedford where 13 anglers turned up, a number that was boosted to 15 by the very welcome addition of 2 members from our Junior ranks in the shape of Jack o’ Brien and Daniel Carr. On the debit side we had lost 4 anglers to late illness. We all wish all of them a speedy recovery.
We fished Jack’s Lake at the venue (just a coincidence in names – Nothing to do with Jack O Brien!!) which was at a good level despite the prolonged dry spell and carried a fair amount of colour. However, we did face a strong wind blowing down the Lake which meant that the anglers on the high and low numbered pegs were face on into it. As the weigh sheet below shows, sport was somewhat patchy.
Steve Lathwell was the clear winner on the day with 60lbs 2oz. Steve opted to use a Method Feeder rig with micro pellets as groundbait and 8mm pellet as hook bait. He fished against the island opposite his peg and his net(s) contained mainly Carp with the occasional Tench. He alternated with random trips into the margins when sport became slower.
In second place with 47lbs 10oz was Mark Sessions who chose a maggot feeder to the end of the island, feeding 2mm pellets and maggot linked to a size 14 hook holding 4 maggots as bait.
In third place was Sean Leatherland with 43lbs 12oz caught mainly on a pole to 13m using maggot as bait.
In 4th place was Colin Holmes with 23lbs 8oz He also fished a method feeder initially but changed to a lifter bite detector due to difficulty with the gusty wind effecting the rod tip which in turn dislodged the feeder. Following this change of approach Colin began to catch with a 6mm banded pellet.
After that, the remaining anglers struggled to find any fish consistently, which the weights set out below testify to. However, nobody blanked on the day and despite the wind the weather remained dry.
Thank you to Ray Burton for his efforts to get the match under way by sorting out the financial side and the draw. Also, thanks to Richard Darbon for time keeping, (although he didn’t call time until he had hooked his last fish!!!). Finally thank you again to the stalwart Tracey who turned up, as usual, got Sean’s tackle to his peg and then returned later in the day to assist with and to scribe up the weigh in.
Overall, it was quite a hard day fishing wise but at least the weather was kind to us. Well done to those who managed to find some decent fish and to the rest for making it a pleasant day all round.
The full result is as follows.
1st Steve Lathwell 60lbs 2oz
2nd Mark Sessions 47lbs 10 oz
3rd Sean Leatherland 43lbs 12oz
4th Colin Holmes 23lbs 8oz
Joint 5th Andy Frankum and Paul Carr both on 18lbs 12oz
7th Richard Darbon 15bs 10oz
8th Jack O Brien 14lbs 2oz (a very impressive effort Jack – well done )
9th Dave Ridley 12lbs 4oz
10th Dudley Frankland 6lbs 4oz
11th Daniel Carr 5lb 4oz (One fish expertly played to the net- well done Daniel)
12th Ray Burton 4lbs exactly
13th Brian Shaw 1lb 10oz
DNW Terry Vickers and Simon Foulkes.
Our next match is Wednesday 23rd April at the Town South stretch of the GUC in Leighton Buzzard. Draw at the venue at 8.30 as usual, £5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 pegging fee, Fish 10:00am – 3:00 pm. Parking arrangements will be that the CRT carpark will be available to the less mobile members as usual.
Otherwise, please park considerately on the adjoining housing estate, particularly remembering that it is bin collection day and the Council Refuse Cart drivers are not renowned for their judgement of narrow widths!!
For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time, message us so we know you are coming before turning up. This will help us to manage the pegging of the venue.
Please bring your club membership book with you as you will be asked to produce it for your first appearance.
Unfortunately there are no pictures to accompany the match report this week.
That is all we have to report this week. As always please keep your reports coming in to us. If you would like to send us a catch report from a Luton AC Water you can send reports,pictures and videos via our facebook page and other social media accounts, the club website or via a what’s app message to 07940 229071. Don’t forget every picture we receive is automatically entered into 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
Dave
Luton Angling Club
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