Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area

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 27th July 2025

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