Here is this weeks round up of News, Information and Catch Reports from Luton Angling Club.
Wyboston Venues (North House, South Lagoon and the River Ouse)
This week we had one of the regular visits from our area Fisheries Enforcement Officer from the Environment Agency. It is good to see them regularly at Wyboston keeping our waters safe and ensuring that everything is in order.
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| EA Enforcement Officer Patrolling at Wyboston |
Biddenham River Ouse
One of our fisheries team looked into the bushes behind peg 4 at Biddenham today and found 40 or so metres of fishing line discarded. Unbelievable and disgraceful behaviour. We are absolutely fuming. If the culprit is reading this, you are an embarrassment to the club and angling in general.
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| Discarded Line at Biddenham |
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| Discarded Line at Biddenham |
North House Lake
Paul Parkinson had a 24 hour session on North house on Saturday with a few mates and he managed to get this mirror. He didn’t weigh it. It was caught on a snowman rig with a pink pop up.
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| Paul Parkinson - North House Lake |
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| Paul Parkinson - North House Lake |
Beckerings Reservoir
The reservoir will be closed next weekend to allow essential platform repairs to be carried out. Volunteers are needed to assist. We hope to enlarge the platforms we are replacing but that is dependent on the number of people that come to help out.
The reservoir WILL BE CLOSED and no night bookings will be accepted for the Friday and Saturday. Depending on progress the work party may run into Sunday as well so we have reserved both days. DO NOT IGNORE THE CLOSURE NOTICES AS YOU WILL BE MADE TO LEAVE.
Let us know if you can come along. Club member Nebojsa will be there on Saturday and has offered to cook up a big pot of Hungarian beef Goulash so it would be good to get an idea on the numbers so he can ensure he brings enough. Bring a deep bowl and spoon.
Here are a couple of recent catches from Beckerings by Nick Lynch, He finally caught the 'Half Lin'
At 30lb 2oz she becomes his NEW P.B and my his 30lber! Likely to be the biggest carp in the lake he has been keen to get his hook into her!
She was caught on a short overnight trip on Monday between 12 hour shifts, he almost bailed on this overnighter, but he is glad he went through with it now! Proof that fortune favours the brave and those who dare win!! Caught on a Papi-Nut Boilie with a size 6 Mamba Krank, The second pic is of a common he caught on Friday night
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| Nick Lynch - 'Half Lin' |
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| Nick Lynch - Beckerings |
Carlo had a busy morning at Beckerings this weekend, he landed 4 and lost 2
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
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| Carlo - Beckerings |
River Ouse - Wybsoton
Mark North fished Wednesday afternoon on the river. He fished using a waggler with hemp and had a few nice roach.
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| Mark North - Wyboston River Ouse |
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| Mark North - Wyboston River Ouse |
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| Nobby Clarke - Wyboston River Ouse |
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| Nobby Clarke - Wyboston River Ouse |
After seeing tthe reports on facebook from Mark North and Nobby Clarke, Bill Ridgway went and fished the River at Wyboston on Thursday afternoon, he fished from 3pm until 8pm and had Roach and chublets all on sweet corn
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| Bill Ridgway - Wyboston River Ouse |
Luton Kingfishers participate in Division 2 National Trial
On a warm Sunday morning two of the senior Luton Kingfishers, Jack O’Brien & Daniel Carr made the two hour trip to fish the Ouse near Downham Market for the Let’s fish CRT ‘Emerging prospects’ team assessment, to try out for a place in the team fishing the Angling Trust Division 2 national match.
The lads described how their day went in their own words:
Jack
Jack said he had a brilliant day’s fishing on the Great Ouse at Downham Market today. It was a practice with CRT for team selection before the Division 2 National in September. We fished a match, but it was mainly just a practice day. I think I’m still getting used to the river as it was only my 2nd time fishing one, but I’m getting comfortable quickly and have got plenty of time to practice until the Div 2 in September.
I started the day balling in on a 13m pole line, fishing maggots over the top with five particle-rich balls and topping up every 25 mins or so with a smaller ball. The stamp of fish on this line was very good as well. When it went quiet, I swapped lines. In hindsight, I should’ve just stayed on the original line rather than wasting lots of time on a feeder and snag line for some perch. If I had I might’ve done a lot better in the match, but no bother—know for next time.
Overall, Jack finished with 2 kilo 490g for 4th place out of 18. He can’t wait to get back!
Daniel
I started out on 11m line potting 4 balls of groundbait out with loose feed. I then was catching steadily but I then noticed that most of my bites came when I was shipping out from close in. So, after an hour I moved in closer to a line about 5m out to the edge of the lily pads and was catching about 2 fish a minute, occasionally using bait dropper to top up bait in the spot. It then started slowing down, and I was only getting tiny fish so I checked my 11m line but nothing unfortunately didn’t find fish
I then tried feeder to the far bank but nothing. So I tried on the lily pads on the other side of my peg, and again nothing, not having any luck on any other lines, I headed back to the original lily pads for the rest of the match occasionally catching.
Daniel ended on 1.360kg for 11th out of 18.
Thanks goes to Mark Brooks for his support and for a last minute river coaching session at Wyboston on Saturday morning, and as always to the parents for their unstinting support and for providing the transport.
This is a wonderful reflection on how far our Kingfishers have progressed in recent years and shows that we are making true progress and are not just Canal Anglers.
The best news is that they have both been awarded places via a national selection process to fish alongside other talented young anglers, including England Under 15 internationals.
This is a fantastic opportunity for them to fish in one of the biggest and most prestigious matches of the year.
Jack will fish in Emerging Prospects Red, and Daniel will be Vice Captain of Emerging Prospects Blue.
This is a fantastic achievement, and the lads have done well to be selected. We sure they will make the most of the opportunity.
The Club Coaches are extremely proud of what the boys have achieved, and we are sure they will do extremely well and gain tremendous experience by fishing this event.
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| Daniel Carr |
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| Jack O'Brien |
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| Jack fishing the Div 2 Trial at Downham Market |
CRT ‘Lets Fish’ Regional Match River Nene Peterborough
This Saturday two of our Juniors, Jack and Daniel were out representing the Club again in the CRT ‘Lets Fish’ regional event held on the Nene near Peterborough. Both lads again turned in blinding performances.
Jack sent us this account of his day and says he went for a simple approach after overcomplicating things at the Division 2 Team try outs last week, so initially decided to have a close in whip line with balls of groundbait, maggots and hemp. This line got him a few nice roach and chublets early in the match, but it wasn’t electric.
He then went on to my other line at 11.5 metres where he cupped in rich balls of groundbait with casters maggots and hemp in them. This line produced straight away, with a mix of fish which all good size, and he also had the odd big hybrid or skimmer which was nice.
It went a tiny bit quiet for a moment, and he was confused until he looked down at his keepnet to see a big pike staring at it (it made a return later in the match as well) but the line started producing again and shortly after it was back to normal.
In the last hour and a half he had bites from 2 big fish which he thought were both perch (he saw one) so in the last 45 minutes he added a ball of groundbait rich with chopped worm and casters and straight away had another big perch (lost again to weed, there was loads to keep the perch away from) but then he went in again and straight away he hooked another one, and this time managed to get it out.
Overall, Jack said it was an amazing days fishing, and he wonders what weight he would’ve had if he had got those other Perch out! However, he still weighed in 3 Kilo 600, came first in the match and beat the rest of the field by 2Kilo!
Jack said, ‘It was one of the best matches I’ve fished and was on a beautiful venue.’
Daniel however didn’t have the greatest of days, starting off well and then being beset by ‘Technical issues’ a broken top kit and another top kit that sank when it dropped off shipping back. He also lost a large fish (unseen but either a perch or a big bream). Daniel said he has had better days, but even after these disasters he still didn’t come last! Well, we have all had those sorts of days, haven't we?
Very Well done to both Lads!!
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| CRT ‘Lets Fish’ regional event - River Nene |
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| CRT ‘Lets Fish’ regional event - River Nene |
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| CRT ‘Lets Fish’ regional event - River Nene |
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| CRT ‘Lets Fish’ regional event - River Nene |
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| CRT ‘Lets Fish’ regional event - River Nene |
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| CRT ‘Lets Fish’ regional event - River Nene |
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| CRT ‘Lets Fish’ regional event - River Nene |
Match Result - Wednesday 25th June GUC Town South.
We had 16 Anglers meet on Wednesday, and we were pleased to welcome newcomer Graham Stringer for the first time. Graham said despite having a challenging day he enjoyed the company and will be out with us again soon.
Our peg draw was by the White Bridge this week on a warm and initially overcast morning which later turned into a hot and sunny day with a very gentle breeze. The Canal water was warm with a recorded temperature 21C and was holding good colour. We had a good number of boats this week as is to be expected with the warm weather and the holiday season getting underway, most behaving extremely well and keeping to the centre track.
The canal fished very moodily with bites at a premium, a number recording DNW and known ‘Flyer’ swims proving extremely difficult. Roger Baker fishing his pairs match against Syd Wilson had a frustrating day losing two very big fish, one unseen and the other a decent bream which rolled off the hook as he was trying to land it. Roger lost his pairs match ending with 2oz and said he had known better days!
Dennis Hunt fresh from his holiday turned up without a keepnet, a replacement being hastily borrowed from Syd Wilson on condition it was returned dry! This didn’t happen as it needed to get wet for Dennis to take the win with 6lb 11oz. Dennis fished at 6 sections to take a skimmer and a hybrid on pinkie and fished 11 Metres to the far bank to bag a big bream on Caster, which put up an extremely good show and was nearly lost as a speeding boat went past. Dennis went straight back over after the first bream and hooked another which was unfortunately lost when it threw the hook, it really was one of those days! After that Dennis alternated between the two lines taking another perch oin the track but the bites dried up and he didn’t have a bite in the second half of the match.
Colin Holmes struggled for bites but bagged a decent bream 15 Mins from the end on red maggot to take second with 3lb 3oz. Sean Leatherland took third with 2lb 5oz and Pete Mills fourth with 2lb 2oz
Thanks to everyone who assisted with the pegging, admin and scales this week
Results
1st Dennis Hunt 6lb 11oz
2nd Colin Holmes 3lb 3oz
3rd Sean Leatherland 2lb 5 oz
4th Pete Mills 2lb 2oz
5th Dudley Frankland 1lb 10oz
6th Barry Roper 1lb 8oz
7th Les Burton 1lb 3oz 8drm
8th Tony Hickmott 1lb 3oz
9th Ray Burton & Richard Darbon 0lb 14oz
11th Chris Howard 0lb 13oz
12th Syd Wilson 0lb 11oz
13th Stephen Holiday 0lb 9oz
14th Roger (Unlucky) Baker 0lb 2oz
DNW Graham Stringer and Terry Vickers
Our next match is Wednesday 2nd July. The venue for this is St Albans Lakes London Colney. Draw at the venue at 8.30 as usual, fish 10am till 3pm. £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 you must 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.
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| Dennis Hunt - 6lb 11oz |
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| Colin Holmes - 3lb 3oz |
All the matches for Round one have now been completed and a summary of the results is below.
Pair 1 - Keith Ward and Myles Tommey
Myles and Keith fished their round 1 match on the canal near Tiddenfoot on the 21st June
This was a very close match.Keith Ward took victory with two decent fish of around a pound on chopped worm in the last 30 minutes, They were caught by the far bank after he lost another rig on the snags in the middle track.He caught both fish on chopped worm.Keith is through to Round 2 well done Keith.
Result
Keith Ward 3lb 13oz 8drm
Myles Tommey 3lb 6oz
Pair 2 - Jack O' Brien and Terry Vickers
Jack and Terry fished at Slapton on 15th June and Terry took the approach of a waggler rod and a feeder rod while Jack went for a pole approach along with a feeder rod. It was a very enjoyable day and both had a great time catching quality canal fish. Jack took the win with 4lb 11oz and is through to Round 2. Terry had 1lb 12oz
Result
Jack O'Brien 4lb 11oz
Terry Vickers 1lb 12oz
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| Jack O'Brien - Pick and Choose Round 1 |
Daniel and Danny fished on the 3 Locks Upper section on the Grand Union Canal on 14th June. They fished for 5 hours. Danny Worth took the win and is through to the next round.
Result
Danny Worth 3lb 12oz
Daniel Carr 1lb
Pair 4 - Syd Wilson and Roger Baker
Syd and Roger fished their round match on the canal at Town South oin the 25th June. Syd took the win with 11oz, and Roger had 2oz. The result could have been different if Roger had not lost 2 fish, he was smashed up and lost the rig and his elastic was snapped by a carp, he also dropped a bream, which was potentially between 3&4lbs. But at least he did not blank for a change. Well done Syd on the win and getting through to Round 2. Roger said he is looking forward to competing again next year.
Result
Syd Wilson 11oz
Roger Baker 2oz
Pair 5 - Dennis Hunt and Paul Carr
Dennis and Pauls chosen venue on 27th June was the canal at Grove Church, and they fished from 4:35pm till 8:35pm. Dennis was catching mainly roach at 7m but came off that line to go for larger roach or a bonus bream in caster at 11m the roach were slightly bigger but no bonus fish finishing with a weight of 2lb 6oz. Paul was fishing at 5m for most of the match catching mainly small skimmers on single red maggot over ground bait a switch to single caster brought a couple of nice sized canal roach (both of which were vicious takes) finishing with a weight of 2lb 11oz 8drm. Both found bites hard to connect with at times, with most just being small dips of the float. Both anglers were also plagued by crayfish. Well done Paul who is through to Round 2.
Result
Paul Carr 2lb 11oz 8drm
Dennis Hunt 2lb 6oz
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| Dennis Hunt - Pick and Choose Round 1 |
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| Paul Carr - Pick and Choose Round 1 |
Pair 6 - Richard Gibbs and Stephen Holliday
Stephen Holliday, is automatically through to round as unfortunately his opponent Richard Gibbs was unable to compete due to illness and they were unable to reschedule before the deadline (29th June).
Result
Stephen Holliday - Not Fished (automatically through)
Richard Gibbs - Unable to fish due to illness.
Pair 7 Sean Leatherland and Peter Mills
Fished their round 1 match during one of the usual Wednesday matches on 11th June. The water was low and clear on the day with minimal boat traffic. Fishing proved to be very difficult, but a quirk of the draw bag saw Sean and Peter actually pegged next to each other in the middle of the overall match. Peter caught one large bream (bread punch) early in the match and together with a few smaller fish outweighed Sean who caught one smaller bream (red maggot) and a few bits to finish slightly behind at the final whistle.
Result
Peter Mills - 4lb 7oz
Sean Leatherland - 3lb 3oz
Pair - 8 Adrian Smith and Richard Darbon
Adrian and Richard fished at Braggenham Side towards Three Locks on the 26th June. A very pleasant evening match with both anglers adoping similar pinkie over groundbait methods. Richard got off to a flying start and caught first but his next bite was from a crayfish which seemed to affect his swim. Adrian fished at the bottom of the far shelf and following a short wait for a bite then managed to pick up small fish in his catch to take the win with 2lb 7oz and is through to the next round. But all is all with great company and friendly banter it was a great way to spend a sunny evening.
Result
Adrian Smith 2lb 7oz
Richard Darbon 5oz
Pair 9 - Colin Holmes and Ian Orbell
Colin and Ian were the final pair to fish their round 1 match. They fished today at Grove Church. It was very sunny and hot with lots of boat traffic. Ian Orbell claimed his place in Round 2 with 4lb 6oz, and Colin had 1lb 12oz.
Result
Ian Orbell 4lb 6oz
Colin Holmes 1lb 12oz
The anglers through to Round 2 and their pairings are......
Pair 1 Danny Worth & Paul Carr
Pair 3 Adrian Smith & Syd Wilson
Pair 4 Jack O'Brien & Stephen Holliday
Pair 5 Ian Orbell & Keith Ward
Round 2 Matches must be completed by Sunday 20th July.
Thats all for this weeks report.
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.
Tight Lines Until Next Week!
Dave
Luton AC
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