Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: July 2025

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 27th July 2025

Here is a round up of the catch reports, news and information for the week ending 27th July 2025.

South Lagoon Wyboston
Andy Smith had a mixed bag from the South Lagoon today. The South Lagoon and River Ouse at the Wyboston Lakes Resort are available to Non club members via a Day or Night ticket that can be purchased from the bailiffs. Check out the club website for more details and pictures of recent catches.

Andy Smith - South Lagoon

Andy Smith - South Lagoon

Nathan Porter, a day ticket angler, had a good session Friday night on the Lagoon catching a mirror at 8lb and a lovely looking common at 12lb. He also had a Bream. It was only his 2nd visit to the lagoon and he said he'll definitely be looking at joining as a member next year as he's fallen in love with the complex.

Nathan Porter - South Lagoon

Nathan Porter - South Lagoon

Club members Natalia Dolega, Paulina Trembecka, and Mariusz Dolega had a successful family fishing trip at the Lagoon at the weekend. Special congratulations to 10 year old Natalia, who caught her first eel, weighing 1.75 lb.

Natalia, Paulina and Mariusz - South Lagoon

Natalia - Eel, South Lagoon

Natalia - Eel, South Lagoon

Bream - South Lagoon

Paulina - Bream - South Lagoon

Beckerings Reservoir

Tom Plater had a 24 hour session on Beckerings Saturday-Sunday he had 2 Bream, a Common at 20lb (no picture) and a dark coloured scaly mirror at 22lb.

Tom Plater - Beckerings

Steve Emery had cracking day on the bank at Beckerings with 13 carp landed. The successful session was topped off by a chunky 28lb 13oz mirror and a stunning long 24lb 6oz common that put up a proper scrap! The rest were lovely upper doubles in the 19–20lb range, and just to mix things up… a surprise 10lb+ slab of a bream!

Steve Emery - Beckerings

Steve Emery - Beckerings

Reservoir regular Nick Lynch had of the 2 stockies, an 18lb common and a 60lb cat on Thursday night. All caught on Shrimp + Pepper Boilies

Nick Lynch - Beckerings

Marcus Wolthers also caught one of the catfish. Its weight was 56lb. It was caught on peg 9 using a DNA the bug wafter.Marcus was helped by a fella called Tom, who talked him through playing it and then landed it for him. He would have struggled without his assistance.

Marcus Wolthers - Beckerings

Paul Martin fished Peg 1 this week and lost a big mirror at the net, he landed 3 carp up to 23lb and also had 2 bream.

Paul Martin - Beckerings

Paul Martin - Beckerings

Damien Fitzpatrick had a busy night with the family at Beckerings last weekend He had 9 out in total all on bottom bait, a mix of papi nut and shrimp and pepper using d-rig with u.k.a size 4 curved shank . He was on peg 9 both rods 8 wraps out biggest was 25lb 6 oz mirror, a 20lb common and the rest were mid teens but some lovely mirrors and it was one of his best sessions at Beckerings. He let his daughter Poppy who is a Junior member, play 2 of his fish in, and she had also made all the nova mesh bags for that session and they caught on every one. It was great fun

Damien Fitzpatrick - Beckerings

Damien's daughter Poppy - Beckerings

Damien Fitzpatrick - Beckerings

Grand Union Canal

Steve Lathwell had a productive few hours on the Grand Union Canal this week, He had a nice mixed bag of fish.

Steve Lathwell - Grand Union Canal

North House Lake

Marek Marecki fished North House Lake last Saturday night. He had this 19lb carp around 11 o’clock on Sunday morning. He also lost another one.

Marek Marecki - North House Lake

Report from the 2025 Sunday Series

Round 4 of the LAC Summer Series took place on the GUC at The Globe on Sunday 20th June 2025.

13 anglers took part in the match and whilst there were a couple of light showers, the predicted thunderstorm thankfully did not make an appearance. The canal did not fish as well as hoped, but all caught fish.

Thanks go as always to The Globe Pub for kindly allowing the angler to park for the match. A post match beer is always enjoyed in this great pub.

Winner on the day was Dave Abbot on peg 2. Dave caught two good bream early in the match and a few other fish feeding chopped worm and maggot at 13 metres and fishing dead pinkies on the hook to weigh in 6lb 8ozs.

Daves travelling partner Bart Bonito followed up his recent mid week success and came 2nd with 3lb 14 ozs on peg 9. Bart regularly fed small balls of groundbait laced with worms and caught on pinkie and red maggot.

In third place was Tim Watts on peg 12 who weighed 3lb 8ozs 8drm of mostly small road and a bonus 1lb skimmer.

Peter Mills was 4th with 2lb 10ozs on peg 7. Peter had 4 bites and 2 fish at 4m on breadpunch.

Round 5 will be on 17th August on the River Ouse at Eaton Ford. The draw at 8.30am. £2.00 peg fee and £5.00 optional pools, fish 10am till 3pm. There are 8 matches in the Sunday Series and the best 5 section results from eight count for the final league placings (one of which must be a river match)

For anyone thinking of joining in with the friendly matches, they 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 and you are very welcome.

LAC Sunday Series

LAC Sunday Series

CRT ‘Lets Fish’ Regional Match Furnace Lane Northampton,

On Sunday two of our young anglers fished another local CRT Regional Match on the Grand Union at Furnace Lane in Northampton. Unfortunately, due to holidays and other commitments, we couldn’t field any more competitors in this match, but the lads that represented us did very well, taking first place in the Cadets and second in the Juniors.

Leo’s Dad said our Cadet Leo was very patient as it proved to be very hard fishing, and the weather was on and off rain for 3 hours but Leo managed to try few different things, starting with just top kit for the first hour, then top kit +1 and top kit +2 at 1.hours into the match but without much luck

The top kit only managed to produce 3 fish in the first hour, and then it was VERY quiet

Leo then decided to "overfeed" in the last hour, putting 3 big balls of ground bait in on topkit+1 and managed a very nice Perch within ten minutes on a single pinkie. It proved to be the last fish of the day and Leo finished 1st with 690gr

Daniel sent us this report of his day.

I fished two lines today a 3m line and 13m line on the edge of some lilies.

For the match we had to fish 3m or less for the first hour, so I started by putting in two balls of groundbait and fished pinkie on the hook. I also fed pinkies which got me catching steadily, then it slowed down, so I switched to red maggot on the hook, which was getting me skimmers and an odd hybrid. After two hours of fishing the 3m line, it dried up, so I decided to move on to my 13m line after potting a cup of groundbait laced with casters in.

This worked well, and for the rest of the match, I caught steadily catching a decent stamp of skimmers with the odd small roach. At the end of match, I finished with 2 kilos 350 grams giving me 2nd place, missing first place by only 100 grams!

This was a great performance by both our lads, very well done to both of you.

CRT Let's Fish Regional Match

CRT Let's Fish Regional Match

Luton Wednesday Group Match 23rd July Section 3 Three Locks / Braggenham side

We had 18 Anglers out on Wednesday to fish Section 3 at the Three Locks. We initially met in the car park at Three Locks to draw our pegs, and those who drew nearer Braggenham side drove to the bridge and parked in the lane. Because of some longer walks we had decided to fish 10-15 to 3-15 this week to allow more time to get to the pegs.

We had decided to split the match into two sections, Section A nearer the Three Locks and Section B at Braggenham side, Leaving out the large bend past the mooring, where know the swims get wiped out with every passing boat. Being holiday season, we had a few of those yesterday, most behaving well!

The weather was pleasantly warm at around 20C, but overcast, with some dark clouds, but we didn’t see any rain. One of the nice things about fishing are the interesting things seen while doing it, Tony Hickmott having a Grey Wagtail land and sit on his pole, and Terry Vickers watching a large and nicely marked Grass Snake swim across the Canal in front of him.

We also all enjoyed the afternoon flying display taking place at nearby RAF Halton, with several Helicopters, a large A400M Atlas and a Spitfire flying over us at very low level during the afternoon.

On section A nearest the Locks Simon Foulkes drew the noted bream peg on the bend. From the whistle he decided to prime a 12.5 meter line for the first hour, introducing small amounts of ground bait ( walnut size) with chopped pinkie and worm every 10/15 mins. During the first hour he fished pinkie over punch crumb at 11mtrs to catch blade roach an, and after the first hour he went over to the 12.5m line and found bream, decent skimmers and perch, alternating between pinkie and worm finishing with 12lb 9oz for 1st in Section and first overall.

Syd Wilson, (who hates the lower section at Three Locks) drew one swim past Simon on the bend. Syd started on bread at 5m which proved a waste of time. He then switched to 11 Metres and caught 2lb bits where he had 3’6” of water but said every boat wiped you out. He caught 2 bream in the last hour tight over, in what he described a horrible peg, ending on 6lb 6oz.

Third in Section A was Colin McBeth on the end peg who took 3lb 2oz

Section B winner was Dudley Frankland, who fished a small tip rod over on the far shelf using a small cage feeder loaded with chop worm and caster, with worm on the hook. This seemed to sort out some of the bigger bream. Dudley finished with 8lb 10oz.

Second in this section was Barry Roper who started on the inside but struggled for bites. He went out to 11m and started to get small roach and skimmers on pinkie. He then hooked a decent bream. For the rest of the match, he kept picking up the small fish and with 10 minutes to go he caught another good bream, to end with 7lb 10oz.

Jim Tookey fished Pinkie over groundbait to take a bag of mostly small skimmer. Jim said the did try a couple of other options during the match but couldn’t get anything else to work, so stuck with the groundbait and pinkie approach to finish with 4lb 15oz.

Thanks to Barry who had his hiking boots on early to do the pegging , and everyone else who assisted with the admin and weigh in yesterday.

Results

1st Simon Foulkes 12lb 9oz

2nd Dudley Frankland 8lb 10oz

3rd Barry Roper 7lb 10oz

4th Syd Wilson 6lb 6oz

5th Jim Tookey 4lb 15oz

6th Sean Leatherland 4lb 5oz

7th Colin McBeth 3lb 2oz

8th Tim Watts 2lb 12oz

9th Pete Mills 2lb 3oz

10th Tery Vickers 1lb 3oz

11th Tony Hickmott & Graham Stringer 0lb 13oz

13th Dave Ridley 12oz

14th Ray Burton 11oz

15th Paul Carr 10oz 8drm

16th Dennis Hunt 10 oz

17th Malcolm Ogden 6oz

18th Roger Baker 4oz

Our next match is Wednesday 30th July. The venue is Oundle Marina, on the river Nene, Draw at the venue at 8.30 as usual, fish 10am till 3pm. £5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 Luton pegging 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.

Wednesday Match

Wednesday Match

Wednesday Match

That is all for this week. 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

Dave M

Luton AC

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 20th July 2025

Here is this weeks news, information and Catch Report round up from Luton Angling Club.

Planned for some time, this week the club took delivery of and installed a memorial plaque for former club chairman and president David Edwards at our Biddenham venue. David spent 65 years of his life devoted to the running of Luton Angling Club and held every and sometimes multiple positions on the committee over that time, there is no doubt that the club would not be what it is today without his dedication.

Plaque at Biddenham

Plaque at Biddenham

Beckerings Reservoir

Martin Scholes had a good 48hr session at Beckerings on Sunday and Monday night, he had a total of 13 carp one of which was a new PB of 26lb 4oz the other weights were 20lb 12oz , 18lb 8oz, 9lb 14oz , 19lb 12oz, 22lb, 10lb 8oz, 17lb 2oz, 13lb 8oz 18lb 8oz, 12lb 12oz 9lb and 19lb 10oz

Martin Scholes - Beckerings

Martin Scholes - Beckerings

Martin Scholes - Beckerings

Paul Burton caught a couple of commons from Beckerings on Thursday. The biggest was 18lb 7oz, which he has named Blackspot (for obvious reasons) and the smaller one was 10lb 10oz.

Paul Burton - Beckerings

Abby-Leanne has been having some great sessions recently at Beckerings. In June, she had two lovely mirrors – an 18lb and a 21lb. She then went back for a birthday session on Saturday, fishing peg 10, and she managed three more – a 14lb mirror, an 18lb 6oz common, and a 14lb 5oz mirror, all fish were taken on Shrimp & Pepper and Papi-Nut from Mamba Baits.

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Abby Leanne - Beckerings

Canal Pick and Choose - Round 2 - Result Recap.

Our canal pick and choose knockout competition is proving very successful, with Round 2 now complete here is a round up of the results from each of the round two events. The draw for Round 3 will be completed shortly.

First to fish their round 2 match was Pair 5 - Keith Ward and Ian Orbell who fished the canal at the White Bridge down by the flats on the 4th July. Both caught Skimmers, Hybrids, Roach and Perch. They found the best bait was Squatt fished at 11m. They fished for 4 hours Ian Orbell and won the match and goes through to Round 3.

Pair 2 - Myles Tommey and Pete Mills fished 3 Locks opposite the boats below the lock on the 5th July. It was an Over cast day, with low boat traffic, Pete fed caster to the far side and caught on pinkie/caster. He had a mix of Hybrids/Skimmers/Roach and Perch. Myles fished similar methods but had two crossing boats which didn’t help the fishing, Pete won the match with 5lb 8oz.

Pair 4 - Jack O’Brien and Stephen Holliday were unable to complete their match as Stephen forfeited as he was not able to find the time before the 20th July deadline, This means Jack is awarded the win by default and is through to Round 3.

Pair 1 - Paul Carr and Danny Worth fished their Round Two match on Sunday 13th July, It was a revenge match of sorts after Danny had knocked out Paul’s son Daniel in round one. They met in the car park at Three Locks at 8:30am and proceeded to the canal above the lock, but due to the number of boats moored there they had to go further than the Chelmscote bridge before they were able to find space to fish. With their pegs chosen they got set up and started fishing at 10am.

Danny struck the first blow landing a nice sized skimmer as his first fish early on and continued to catch steadily, up until the last hour when it died off ending with 3lb 3oz.

Paul took a bit longer to start catching not having anything for the first 25mins before catching a skimmer of his own on pinkie before a change of bait to single red maggot and feeding pinkies and the occasional ball of ground bait, this bait change brought a run of fish that lasted for the rest of the match, with Paul ending with 5lb 1oz - a very mixed bag that included perch, roach, Rudd, skimmers, a gudgeon, a ruffe and a small carp hybrid.

Boat traffic was very heavy during the day with the number of boats in double figures and towpath traffic even heavier with cyclists, walkers and joggers all out enjoying the pleasant weather. At the end of the day, family honour was restored with Paul taking the victory and making it through to Round 3!

The last pair to complete their Round 2 match was Syd Wilson and Adrian smith. They fished their Round 2 match on the North section of the globe on Sunday 20th July whilst the Sunday Series was taking place on the South section.

This was the typical match of two halves where Adrian got off to a good start but saw bites dry up after a couple of hours, and then he needed to pick up odd fish from different lines. Syd's start was slower but as the match progressed he got into a nice rhythm to pick up fish.

The match turned out to be quite close with Adrian just shading it with 2lb 13ozs to Syd's 2lb 5ozs seeing Adrian through to Round 3.

Match Report for Wednesday 16th July 2025

Isaac Walton said, “Angling may be said to be so like mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt.”

With this in mind (to some more than others) 20 anglers turned up for this week’s midweek match which took place on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton. 17 anglers were fit and strong enough to undertake the endurance course to the allotted pegs upon the lower pound.

Three old codgers decided that they couldn’t manage it and so held a separate event on the upper stretch adjacent to the winding hole.

Dennis Hunt, the mainstay of our group could not be with us due to other commitments. However, it was really refreshing, as usual, to see others step up to the plate to ensure that a good day was had by all.

A special thank you to Barry Roper for putting on his hiking boots to carry out the pegging.

A highlight to the day was the introduction of Sam Rose into our ranks. Sam is a Firefighter, and she is a most appreciated addition, lowering the average age of the Wednesday Match crowd by at least 20 years!! Welcome Sam, we look forward to seeing you with us many times in the future. However, the welcome was short lived because the draw sentenced her to the longest walk to the far end peg beyond the overhead power lines. At least youth was on her side!

Water temperature was 21.5 degrees C so understandably any fish that were landed felt warm to the hand. Our Guru, Tony Hickmott witnessed the CRT lock keeper arriving in the morning just before the start of the match. He opened the paddles on both sets of lock gates, probably to control water levels during this run of current heatwaves. This led to the canal having a slightly stronger tow than usual all day.

Most swims below and above the lock were sheltered from the strangely warm North wind which arrived after the match had been underway for 2 hours or so, The last three swims beyond the power lines had to cope with waves later in the match.

Boat traffic was relatively light considering the time of year and those that did come through were well behaved keeping to the centre at reduced power, although one pair of boats tied side by side did require more power to progress, stirring up the silt. Those on the upper pound also saw this pair of boats. Apparently, the passage below the bridge before the lock was too much of a bend or the bridge had moved, because the lady driving gave the bridge wall a good thump. Also, those on the upper pound were treated to the sight of Captain Pugwash reversing his boat from heaven knows where to the Winding Hole to turn round. He then proceeded to execute a 58 point turn to get the boat facing the right way, churning the water to foam in the process.

However, everyone managed to find some fish with several quality Roach being landed. One other noted species was Gudgeon, Andy Frankum managing 10 in his net which is encouraging as they appear to be sparse on other stretches of the canal nowadays. Also, several keep nets were seen to have Crayfish clinging to them when removed from the water at the weigh in.

The weigh in was conducted by Tony Hickmott, Sam Rose, Danny Worth and of course the invaluable Tracey Leatherland. Thanks to those that provided scales and nets. And a special thanks to the irreplaceable Ray Burton for the part he played in running the match.

The Canal was at a reasonable level considering the recent hot weather and carried some colour. However, apart from the gusts of wind the weather was kind to us with the afternoon becoming very sunny and warm. The fishing turned out to be somewhat patchy and small fish were once again the order of the day for most anglers.

The winner of the match was the ever-popular Bart Bonito, who drew peg 3. Bart landed 8lbs 13oz of fish, which were mainly roach and skimmer bream. He fished at14.50 m finding some skimmer bream and a second line at 13.00 m produced roach. The successful bait was pinkie and squat over groundbait. Well done Bart.

Second place with 5lbs 6oz was taken by the in-form Chris Howard who tried the far bank and only managed small Perch on worm or maggot. He changed to bread down the track getting plenty of bites but only from tiny 2” Roach. He kept feeding hemp over bread and caught on hemp, moving on to tares for a mainly Roach bag.

The indomitable Syd Wison finished third with 4lbs 13oz 8 drams. There was some talk of a disqualification here as Syd had undertaken a sub aqua survey of the whereabouts of fish in the pound in a summer league match on the previous Sunday. He claims that he just fell in, so we took his word for it.

In a close Fourth place was Andy Frankum with 4lbs 10z also using pole tactics for roach, skimmer bream and gudgeon.

The result of the Match was as follows: -

1st Bart Bonito 8lbs 13oz

2nd Chris Howard 5lbs 6oz

3rd Syd Wilson 4lbs 13oz 8 drams

4th Andy Frankum 4lbs 10oz

5th Sam Rose 4lbs 2 oz

6th Sean Leatherland 3lbs 6oz

7th Colin MacBeth 2lbs 13oz

8th Tim Watts 2lbs 12 oz 8 drams

9th Danny Worth 2lbs 10oz

10th Dave Abbott 2lbs 8oz 8 drams

11th Graham Stringer 2lbs 6oz

12th Barry Roper 2lbs 1oz 8 drams

13th Tony Hickmott 1lb 10 oz

14th Colin Holmes 1lb 2oz

15th Dudley Frankland 1lb exactly

16th Les Burton 12 oz

17th Dave Ridley 9 oz

For the record the old timers on the upper pound managed 2lbs 12oz ( Terry Vickers ) 2lbs 10 oz (Ray Burton) and 8 oz (Malcolm Ogden)

Our next match is on the GUC at Three Locks on Wednesday 23rd July 2025. Draw at the venue at 8.30am, £5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 Pegging Fee. Fish 10.00am – 3.00 pm.

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time please message Dennis Hunt 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.

Wednesday Match

Wednesday Match

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

Dave M

Luton AC