Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: November 2025

Luton Angling Club - Weekly News, Information and Catch Report Roundup - Week Ending 30th November 2025

Here is this week’s round‑up of news, information, and catch reports from Luton Angling Club. It’s a quieter on the banks as winter settles in, so we don’t have many reports to share this week. If you’ve been out, we’d really appreciate hearing from you — every catch, big or small, helps keep these updates lively and encourages others to get out on the water.

Please keep your photos and reports coming; they make a real difference at this time of year.

South Lagoon

Marek Zanko landed a fine 12lb, 90cm pike from South Lagoon at Wyboston, along with a second fish of around 7lb.

Marek Zanko - Pike 12lb - South Lagoon

Bedford Winter League

The Bedford Winter League Match took place on Sunday on the River at Biddenham. Despite a sharp drop in temperatures during the week, the river fished reasonably well. The top weight was 8lb 6oz, with an average of around 4lb, a solid return given the conditions. Anglers are already keen to get back on the venue.

Town Pairs Competition – 26th November

This week saw the annual Town Pairs competition on the Grand Union Canal, fished across two sections: Town South (A) and Town North (B). Ten pairs took part, with results decided on points and weight used to settle ties.

A bitterly cold morning greeted the anglers, starting at –3°C after several days of sharp temperature swings, heavy rain, and freezing nights. The canal carried good colour, with 5°C recorded on Town North, while further along at the Gobe a thin layer of ice had formed.

Fishing proved challenging overall, particularly on Section A, though the ever-present kingfishers had no trouble finding their breakfast before the all‑in.
Section Highlights

Dave Ridley (B Section) took overall honours with 7lb 13oz, catching steadily on a 4m whip with pinkie over groundbait, alternating between fish on the drop and slightly over depth for a mixed bag of roach and skimmers.

Tony Hickmott (B Section) followed closely with 7lb 3oz, using his 10m Drennan Acolyte whip and one of his own pencil-style floats. Starting on pinkie over a dark, coconut‑laced groundbait, he caught perch, skimmers, and a chub before rotating baits to keep fish coming.

Bart Bonito (B Section) finished with 6lb 11oz, having switched from bread to groundbait and squat after a slow start, though time spent chasing big perch on worm proved costly.

Tim Watts (A Section) topped the tougher Town South section from an end peg with 4lb 12oz, catching an impressive 112 fish, mostly small roach plus an 8oz perch. A kingfisher even attempted to snatch one of his hooked roach as it surfaced.

Encouragingly, numbers of small roach appear to be improving—promising signs for future seasons.

A big thank you to everyone who helped with pegging, admin, weighing‑in, and results. As always, it’s a team effort.

Match Results
Pairs Results

1st Bart Bonito / Barry Roper
2nd Colin Holmes / Dave Ridley
3rd Tim Watts / Stephen Holiday

Individual Results

Dave Ridley – 7lb 14oz
Tony Hickmott – 7lb 3oz
Tim Watts – 4lb 12oz
Peter Mills – 3lb 11oz
Colin MacBeth – 3lb 0oz
Stephen Holiday – 2lb 13oz
Terry Vickers – 2lb 6oz
Dudley Frankland – 1lb 7oz
Barry Roper – 0lb 12oz
Dennis Hunt – 0lb 8oz
Sean Leatherland – 0lb 6oz
Richard Darbon – 0lb 4oz
Chris Howard – 0lb 3oz
Colin Holmes – 0lb 2oz

DNW: Ray Burton, Les Burton, Dave Abbott, Mark Sessions, Andy Francome
Next Match

Wednesday 3rd December – Ouse Embankment, Bedford
Meet in the car park at 8:30am.

£5 optional pools + £2 Luton pegging fee.
Fish 10:00am – 3:00pm.

Newcomers: please message ahead so pegging can be managed. Bring your club membership book for checking on your first visit.

Pairs Match

Pairs Match

That is all we have for this week, Keep your catch reports coming in via all the usual methods.

Tight Lines,

Dave

Luton Angling Club

Luton Angling Club - Weekly News, Information and Catch Report Roundup - Week Ending 23rd November 2025

Here is a round up of this weeks news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club.

The sharp cold snap has kept the banks quieter than usual. With fewer members braving the chill, catch reports have been thin on the ground.The weather looks to be slightly warmer this week. Please continue to share any outings, observations, or photos—whether it’s a hardy catch or simply the winter scenery. Every contribution helps keep members informed through the colder months.

Match Report

Jacks Lake, Twinlakes, Biddenham (The Cold one!)

Well winter certainly came in with a roar this week, I don’t think anyone was expecting snow for Wednesday morning! As we left our homes to head for Twinlakes in the pre-dawn light the rain was falling, but on the journey we soon had a full blown blizzard!

Doubting our sanity, we continued to the venue and met in the car park, the snow stopping as we arrived, and the dawn broke to leave a clear sky, with initially little wind. We did our draw and made our way to the pegs to set up, the lying slush clinging to our trolley wheels on the way.

We knew the lake had been fishing well but with the recent influx of very cold rainwater (the river Ouse Bromham came up over 2 feet) the temperature of the lake was measured by Tony at 7°C. We wondered what the day would bring, but I think we all knew it wasn’t going to be easy.

While setting up a feeder and clipping up at the correct distance for the island with no bait on the hook, Les Burton had a take on the drop which was hooked and landed (and returned!) — lifting our spirits before the all-in, indicating some fish might feed. Although it was a very cold day, and the weights weren’t high, everyone caught and there were no DNW recorded this week. While we were certainly cold as we headed home for a warm, I think we were glad we persisted and we had enjoyed our day out.

Our winner was Andy Francome who fed the far bank and an inside line with groundbait laced with hemp, caster, and chopped worm. Andy fished a pole over the feed with worm on the hook. In the end all Andy’s fish came from the far bank, taking carp and 2 chub to finish with 33lb 9oz.

Sean Leatherland took second place, also opting for a pole approach, fishing a line at 6 metres which he fed very sparingly with pellet and pinkies. Sean used double red maggot on the hook to take seven carp and a barbel to end just 1lb behind Andy with 32lb 9oz.

Dennis Hunt opted for the simple approach and set up a feeder with soaked micro pellet and groundbait mix loaded on the method feeder, using a size 16 hook with a banded 6mm ‘Robin Red’ pellet, casting just short of the island. Fishing a method feeder enabled Dennis to keep his hands warmer in his jacket pockets, a good move especially when the bitingly cold wind appeared just before midday. Dennis weighed in 27lb 2oz this week to take 3rd place.

Colin Holmes fished a pole, starting off 5 sections out. Colin had 2 very slight pull-unders on the float but made no connection on double red maggot hookbait. He then changed and went over to the island at 14 metres fishing on the bottom and had a few bites, hooking a couple of carp. Colin said his float was going under, but he couldn’t connect with any fish. Changing tactics, he shallowed up his float and caught a couple more. Colin also tried a method feeder using banded pellet to the island, caught a carp, but preferred pole fishing, so he went back to using 5 sections and caught a barbel. Colin ended weighing in 5 carp and a barbel for 19lb 3oz for 4th place, but had lost 8 carp during the session — oh what might have been!

As usual, big thanks to Ray Burton for the admin and Tracy and all the weighing team for helping make the day a success. It was great to see Malcolm Ogden back on the bank with us again after a long time away.

Results

- 1st Andy Francome — 33lb 9oz

- 2nd Sean Leatherland — 32lb 9oz

- 3rd Dennis Hunt — 27lb 2oz

- 4th Colin Holmes — 19lb 3oz

- 5th Les Burton — 12lb 6oz

- 6th Malcolm Ogden — 11lb 14oz

- 7th Paul Carr — 11lb 12oz

- 8th Colin MacBeth — 11lb 4oz

- 9th Simon Foulkes — 10lb 0oz

- 10th Bart Bonito — 8lb 11oz

- 11th Dave Ridley — 6lb 13oz

- 12th Richard Darbon — 3lb 11oz

- 13th Ray Burton — 2lb 8oz

- 14th Tony Hickmott — 1lb 11oz

- 15th Graham Stringer — 1lb 1oz

Next Match

Wednesday 26th November — Drawn pairs on the GUC at Town North / Town South. Meet in Tesco car park promptly at 8.30 as usual.

£5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 Luton pegging fee.

Fishing 10.00am – 3.00pm.

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 at Twinlakes

Beckerings Reservoir

Kieron had a new PB with a 26lb common from Beckerings, it was his first time after the carp properly, by that he means not on a method feeder or float fishing. It was caught on a solid bag 3 rod lengths out he did also catch a few more fish during the session, 2 Bream and 3 Pike.

Kieron PB Common - 26lb Beckerings

Grand Union Canal

Lee Waring caught a 5lb 14oz Bream on Legered worm.

Lee Waring - 5lb 14oz Canal Bream

Kingfisher indoor coaching session Bushmead - Saturday 22nd November

Another fantastic turnout from our Junior anglers on Saturday, they are a keen lot!

It was great to see everyone had been practicing the skills we showed them last time, which was using loop tiers and making sure they knew how to attach hooks using loop to loop knots

We had three activities going on this week, a session on different groundbaits, how to mix and use them, including a tank set up to show how they break down when in water, a game practicing loose feeding and potting pinkies accurately (coloured rice!) and a session showing the boys and girls how to make their own pole rigs. As we had too many to all do the same activities together, we split up into smaller groups, making sure everyone got a turn at each of the different activities.

They all left having learnt new things and with enough component parts to make some rigs for themselves.

All the grandparents and parents were keen to learn alongside the young anglers, so they can help at home and on the bank, it was a super session on a wet and cold afternoon which everyone really enjoyed.

A big thanks to all those who came along.

Indoor Coaching Session at Bushmead

Indoor Coaching Session at Bushmead

GATES & VENUE SECURITY

Can all members please take care to ensure all gates are FULLY CLOSED AND SECURELY LATCHED/LOCKED after use - paying extra care to the Otter Fence gates . A member found the Otter fence gate at Beckerings wide open one morning this week. It is essential to keep these closed at all times to protect our fish stocks.

KEEP GATES CLOSED!!!

That concludes this week’s round‑up. Please keep your reports coming in through the usual channels—we love sharing them.

Tight Lines,

Dave

Luton Angling Club.

Luton Angling Club - Weekly News, Information and Catch Report Roundup - Weeks Ending 9th and 16th November 2025

Here is a round up of this weeks news, information and catch reports from Luton Angling Club. This report covers the period from 3rd November through to the 16th November as I was out of the country on holiday so was unable to do the report last weekend.

Beckerings Reservoir

Family Trio, Damien Fitzpatrick, Daughter Poppy and Abby Leanne fished Beckerings, and all of them had success, For Poppy her first fish of the session was a lovely 15lb mirror, the second fish was a 19lb 2oz common, followed by the third a 14lb mirror

Her fourth fish was a 16lb mirror and to end the session Poppy caught her 5th fish another common of 15lb caught just as they were packing up, it's one of her best sessions yet. She caught all fish using the following baits 3 on shrimp and pepper 14mm with a small red topper and 2 were caught on a 18mm papi nut with a trimmed down pink pop up all rods baited with a pva mesh and a few boilies over the top both rigs a slip d multi rig with a Mamba Baits and tackle size 6 offset krank.

Poppy - Beckerings Common

Poppy - Beckerings Mirror

Poppy - Beckerings Common

Abby Leanne had her first fish at 7pm, a lovely 24lb common on a single 18mm Papinut with a PVA bag. The second followed at 10pm a tidy 19lb fish on Papinut with a trimmed down pink pop-up and a size 4 Mamba Crank. To end the session, Fish number 3 came at 4am a lovely 16lb mirror on shrimp and pepper with a small red topper and a size 6 curve shank. Fish number 4 was a common, again falling to Papinut with a trimmed pink pop-up on a size 4 Mamba Crank. In total she had six runs and landed four.

Abby Leanne Williams - Beckerings

Through the daytime, Damien had a really slow start to his Beckerings session and he was beginning to question his tactics, he moved a few times and thinks he maybe over baited the area a little.

Just before bed he changed the right rod to half an 18mm shrimp and pepper boilie with half a pop up on top, he put a bag on it and sent it to a new spot where he had seen fish showing.

At 3 am the rod screamed of and he knew he had a good fish on the end of his line it felt like he was pulling in a log it came in very slowly and put up a good scrap all the way to the net - a beautiful 27lb 6oz big scaled Mirror.

Damien Fitzpatrick - Beckerings

Damien Fitzpatrick - Beckerings

South Lagoon Wyboston
Liam Newton caught 2 pike, one small Jack and another that was 13lb and 95cm long.

Liam Newton South Lagoo

Liam Newton - South Lagoon

Grzegorz Gawron also had 2 Pike the first weighed 17.6 lbs and measured about 3 ft 3 in, the second one weighed 13.2 lbs and measured around 2 ft 10 in.

Grzegorz - South Lagoon

Grzegorz - South Lagoon

North House Lake

Paul Parkinson fished North House on Saturday for a 24 hour session and managed this lovely Common, he didn’t weight it but reckons it was around the 24lb mark, it was caught on a wafter and chopped boiles.

Paul Parkinson - North House Lake

Paul Parkinson - North House Lake

Damien Zabrzanski did a 48 hour session and managed to get this lovely pike at 87cm it was caught on dead bait a nice looking fish in good condition.

Damien Zabrzanski - North House Lake

Grand Union Canal

Lee Waring spent a couple of hours on the canal legering worms. The session produced around 10 Perch around the size of the one in his hand and then another at 2lb 12oz (he lost one of a similar size at the bank 5 minutes previous to this one!)

Lee Waring - Grand Union Canal

Lee Waring - Grand Union Canal

Coaching Update

Kingfisher Junior Coaching - On the bank at Town South (8th November)

Our Kingfishers were telling us they were very keen to get out on the bank again despite the colder temperatures and shorter days, so as the weather looked OK on Saturday afternoon (8th Nov), we arranged a quick coaching session on Town South for them via our WhatsApp group.

We had Molly, Noah, Thomas, Daniel, Joe and Alex attend, and all were really keen to practice fishing bread punch with liquidised bread or fishing Pinkies, loose feeding pinkies or squatt. All our young anglers caught well and really appreciated the brief session.

Molly’s Gran Sue, said Molly enjoyed the suspense of finding out which fish she might catch next, with 6 perch , 5 roach , 1 skimmer and a gudgeon plus her biggest achievement so far of two decent bream, she definitely hadn’t caught anything that big before!

John Ellis, the brains behind ‘Lets Fish’ paid us a visit on the bank and watched our young anglers fishing, unhooking and handling their fish and was very impressed, saying Luton have some really talented young anglers.

We don’t know when the next bankside session will be as it’s so weather dependant at this time of year, but we have our next indoor session at Bushmead on Saturday 22nd when we will be making rigs, mixing groundbait, playing angling games and a whole lot more, and our young anglers are really looking forward to attending.

Thanks to all the parents for helping our young anglers, we couldn’t do this without your support, if you know a young person keen to learn to fish, get in touch with us, I’m sure we can help.

Molly with a Grand Union Canal Bream

Match Report for Wednesday 12th November 2025

13 anglers made the journey to St Neots with some trepidation for a match held upon one of our best stretches of the River Ouse at Eaton Ford. The worry was the state of the traffic at the Black Cat Roundabout at the junction of the A421 with the A1, together with a weather forecast for rain for most of the day. In the event our fears turned out to be groundless as the latest improvements to the Black Cat Roundabout ensured a painless transition to the Northbound A1. Additionally, the weather forecast of rain did not significantly materialise as the Met office had not allowed for the fact that our great Progenitor, Dennis Hunt was not with us. Thus, the Rain God showed mercy.

The venue has some problems with fallen trees which made certain pegs unfishable, hence the reason for only 13 anglers as that is the number that we were advised could be accommodated. However, we must mention that Malcolm Ogden was again not well enough to join us. Our best wishes go to him for a speedy recovery to good health and we look forward to seeing his cheery face on the bank very soon.

Once again, the indispensable Ray Burton - to whom we offer again our sincere gratitude, stepped into the breach to administer matters practical and financial to ensure that the match went ahead smoothly and efficiently. Eaton Ford is permanently pegged with no moorings, so Barry Roper was excused his usual jaunt to reconnoitre and peg the stretch, although he did check to see which pegs were fishable. After that it was nice that Barry could relax for once.

The river appeared to be in good condition with a little colour and a steady flow. Our meteorological Guru Tony Hickmott advised that the water temperature was 12 degrees centigrade which more or less matched the air temperature at the time of the draw. However, these conditions did not last as the pace of the flow increased as the match progressed and despite most anglers experiencing a good start to the match with a few fish, some began to struggle after the first 2 hours.

Even so all the pegs did find some fish. Pegs 1 and 2 produced the best weights as will be seen in the list below. Richard Darbon put his fingers into his Jam Pot and drew peg 1, a renowned flier. He put his wide experience to good use, opting to fish with a heavy maggot feeder with 2 red maggots on a size 16 hook, casting about one third of the way across the river (a method commonly known as “Chuck it and Chance it). This method produced a good number of small Chublets, some quality Roach and 2 reasonable sized Perch. That mixture weighed in at 5lbs 6oz which was long way ahead of second place. We do suspect that Richard had another incentive because he had wangled a day’s fishing on his wife’s Birthday, so he needed the winnings from the pools to buy Flowers and Chocolates to get him out of the Doghouse!

Nonetheless, well done Richard, a deserved win for being the only one to read the water conditions correctly.

In second place on peg 2 was Paul Carr. Paul only just arrived in time for the draw as he got lost on the way to the venue. He blamed the Sat Nav – he had to blame something for staying in bed too long! Paul opted to fish with a pole rig of 4 sections feeding 2 large balls of groundbait at the start and loose fed maggot and hemp. This short line produced some Bleak. The bleak went off after 90 minutes of the match with only one perch coming after that time. Paul then switched to a feeder rig which still only produced 2 Perch, so he switched back to his short line which did produce more small Roach and Bleak for the remainder of the Match. His total weight for 30 fish was 2lbs 1oz 8 drams.

In Third place with 1lb 14oz was Colin Holmes. Colin bucked the trend of early pegs by drawing peg 16 and opted to try for Perch, using lobworm on the hook. As this proved to be fruitless, Colin declared that the Perch in his swim were vegetarians and so he had to rely on maggot for small roach like the rest of us. Nonetheless, he was rewarded for his perseverance and did produce enough fish to get into the frame. In fourth place was Barry Roper with 1lb 6oz

The weigh in was conducted jointly by the indefatigable Ray Burton with assistance from Tony Hickmott. We are blessed with so many good people who readily pitch in to help with all matters relating to the day.

A deep felt Thank you to all those mentioned.

The overall result of the Match was as follows: -

1st Richard Darbon 5 lbs 6oz

2nd Paul Carr 2lbs 1oz 8drams

3rd Colin Holmes1lb 14oz

4th Barry Roper 1lb 11oz

5th Graham Stringer 1lbs 7oz

6th Simon Foulkes 1lbs 6oz **

Joint 7th Tony Hickmott 11oz & Mark Sessions 11oz

9th Terry Vickers 9oz

Joint 10th Les Burton 7oz&Dave Ridley 7oz

12th Ray Burton 3oz

Andy Frankum DNW

Our next match is at on a foreign venue on Twin Lakes Fishery at Biddenham on Wednesday 19th November 2025. Draw at the venue at 8.30am, £5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 Pegging Fee, plus the Day Ticket Cost of £10.00 Fish 10.00am – 3.00 pm.

For anyone thinking of joining us for the first time please message Dennis Hunt or Ray Burton so we know you are coming before turning up. This will help us to manage the booking of pegging of this venue. Please bring your club membership book with you as you will be asked to produce it for your first appearance.

Wednesday Match 12th November

Match Report – Town South, Grand Union Canal – 5th November

There was much celebrating on the bank this week as it was a Luton Wednesday, and for once we didn’t get wet!

This week we were fishing Town South and, having checked the venue earlier in the week, we knew the length had few moored boats, so we had plenty of space for the 17 pegs needed.

We met as usual by the white bridge to do our peg draw on a fine and unseasonably warm November morning with an air temperature of 12C, which rose during the day. There was initially no wind, but around lunchtime a strong breeze blowing directly along the cut from the south gave the day a much colder feel, despite the rise in air temperature.

The canal had some colour, but is clearing as the temperature drops, the water temperature being measured this week at 12C—still high for the time of year—and we thought the canal might fish well. We had a few boats pass which gave no trouble, going quietly down the middle of the cut. Sadly, there were few fireworks, as it soon became apparent that for whatever reason the fish didn’t really seem keen to feed, and known banker swims failed to produce.

Colin McBeth started by feeding three lines at around 3m, 8m and 11m. He started on the 11m line with pinkie over groundbait and caught small perch and roach, and lost a big fish after about 40 mins (thought to be a perch), but continued to catch on this line for a while, getting a further two nice perch. Colin topped up with more groundbait when it slowed up and then fished the inside with punch while that line settled, taking a couple of skimmers. He then went back to the 11m line and started catching again, including a nice perch. Despite trying the 8m line for a while, he had nothing on that, so Colin went back to 11m and continued catching roach, perch and a few skimmers till the end of the match, ending the day with 7lb 15oz to take first place.

Chris Howard started by fishing bread punch down the track for skimmers and small roach, with fluoro pinkie down the edge for bits. He also opened a line with worm for large perch and skimmers. Chris reported losing a couple of larger fish during the match due to lost hook holds, which was disappointing. Chris, however, managed to put 6lb 15oz on the scales to finish second.

Jim Tookey finished 3rd, and started brightly fishing pinkie over groundbait early, switching to loose feeding pinkie later. After the first couple of hours, however, the swim fizzled out, and Jim said he struggled during the afternoon but had enough to take 3rd with 3lb 4oz.

Mark Sessions and Barry Roper tied for 4th place. Barry started on punch fishing two lines without a bite. He then switched to maggot and pinkie and caught mainly perch and roach with about a dozen ruffe.

Mark fished just over the first shelf on the pole using a size 18 hook, feeding pinkies and groundbait. Mark’s bag was mainly skimmers with roach, with perch making up the rest of the weight. Mark reported having had pike attacking his net with about an hour and a half left, which completely killed his swim, so he changed and fished the waggler on the far shelf and was able to catch a few more roach and perch which also fell to pinkies, ending with 3lb 3oz.

Thanks again go to our pegger Barry Roper, Ray Burton for his sterling work with the admin, and all those who helped with the weigh-in, including Roger Baker who was back helping after falling over recently on a patch of wet slippery leaves.

While the day wasn’t easy, we all enjoyed the company and our day out on the canal—and best of all, we didn’t get wet for once!

Results

1st Colin McBeth – 7lb 15oz

2nd Chris Howard – 6lb 15oz

3rd Jim Tookey – 3lb 4oz

4th (Joint) Mark Sessions & Barry Roper – 3lb 3oz

6th Andy Francome – 2lb 11oz

7th Sean Leatherland – 2lb 9oz

8th Colin Holmes – 2lb 5oz

9th Tim Watts – 2lb 2oz

10th Richard Darbon – 2lb 0oz 8drm

11th Dennis Hunt – 2lb 0oz

12th Simon Foulkes – 1lb 11oz

13th Terry Vickers – 1lb 6oz

14th Dudley Frankland – 1lb 5oz

15th Ray Burton – 0lb 8oz

16th Noah Summerfield – 0lb 6oz

17th Tony Hickmott – 0lb 2oz

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Next Match

Wednesday 12th November

Eaton Ford

Draw: 8.30am at the venue

Fish: 10.00am – 3.00pm

Pools:£5.00 (optional)

£2.00 Luton pegging fee

New participants (must be club members) are welcome! Please message us in advance so we can peg accordingly. Don’t forget your club membership book—it must be shown at your first match.

Wednesday Match 5th November

Pairs knockout final- Sunday 2nd November - The Globe Inn.

Ian Orbell chose the venue and area, Pete Mills the two pegs, located in the willows between the lock and the disused swing bridge.

The final was fished from 9:45am to 2:45pm and the weather was mild.

A couple of early boats put some colour into a clearish canal, but this soon fell away with only two more boats passing through during the match. Leaves were very troublesome for both anglers throughout the match. Pete’s peg got the brunt of it and for the mid part of the match the peg was completely covered in a dense mat, to the point where Ian stopped fishing and kindly came over to assist, both spent 20 minutes clearing, scooping leaves onto the bank with landing nets.

Pete started on the 4m line with punch and caught a few 1oz roach in a row, which raised hopes unnecessarily! it then quickly died and the fishing got harder.

Persevering on the inside line on punch for 3 hrs, whilst intermittently potting in caster on the far shelf, saw odd bites from small hand sized skimmers, but surprisingly no micro roach showed. When possible (subject to leaves) a try with caster on the far shelf didn’t produce, a switch to flouro pinky improved things adding a few small perch before going quiet. The last hour was spent back on punch on the more productive 4m line, adding another 6 small skimmers before the whistle.

Ian drew the peg nearer to the swing bridge and started on the inside line on punch, producing a few roach before tailing off quickly. A switch to pinky on the same line added some small perch. After the hour mark, having potted chopped worm onto the far bank swim, Ian went across and started catching smallish perch and roach.

Ian stuck to this line for most of the match, alternating between the shallow far bank and dropping down the shelf, topping up with worm as the bites slowed. A couple of ‘bonus’ 5oz perch from this line were taken, but also a couple of longish blank spells made for a frustrating day.

Both anglers agreed prior to the match that they wanted a fair section without any ‘flyers’ and this is how it panned out, Ian’s net taking the scales to 3lb 5oz. Pete’s went 3lb 8oz. A small winning margin, probably one fish either way, saw Pete through.

Hand shakes all round and a long walk back!

Finally a quick word for the unfortunate Jack O’Brien who was also a finalist but was unable to fish due to a last minute call up to play rugby on the Sunday.

Pairs Knockout Final

That is all we have for this week, Keep your catch reports coming in via all the usual methods.

Tight Lines,

Dave

Luton Angling Club