Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports: Luton Angling Club - Weekly News, Information and Catch Report Roundup

With Christmas fast approaching, our waters have settled into their familiar winter rhythm. The days are short, the mornings crisp, and while things naturally quieten down at this time of year, there’s still been enough activity across the club to keep the weekly round‑up ticking along.

Thank you to everyone who continues to send in reports and updates during the colder months — they’re always appreciated. Here’s this week’s news as we head into the festive break.

Amer Jawad has been making the most of his time off work with some afternoon sessions at Beckerings. His first outing started slowly, with two quiet hours before the swim finally came to life, producing a handful of tidy skimmers along with a couple of small roach.

Undeterred, Amer returned for another go. It proved to be another challenging session, but steady perseverance paid off with around a dozen roach and two more quality skimmers, all taken on the feeder at 40 metres.

A solid effort across two cold winter days, and a good reminder that Beckerings can still reward those who stick at it.

Amer Jawad - Beckerings

Luton Juniors - 2025 Coaching and review of angling achievements.

This year our young anglers have had a great year, and Luton junior numbers continue to grow, with some very enthusiastic boys and girls growing our ranks this year, helping ensure the Club has a bright future.

Our coaches have worked hard at recruiting new members via the CRT ‘Lets Fish’ program, ran a successful CRT sponsored Coaching Conference and CPD day in January, we also delivered 15 Lets fish sessions on the Canal , gaining some terrific feedback from parents, and we also supported our Luton anglers in 5 regional and National competitions.

We were invited to run some special sessions for a Luton school in the late summer / autumn.

The Club ran junior bankside coaching on Saturday afternoons where many fish were caught, and we also ran six indoor classroom sessions at Bushmead during the winter, and all those were well attended and concentrated on teaching the more technical aspect of the sport in an engaging and fun way.

As well as doing well in the regional matches two young anglers went and took part in trials for the CRT Division 2 National teams,with one of our lads winning the selection match on the Nene with 4Kilo 200 Grams, and they gained two places in the team that competed to represent CRT in the emerging talent National teams on the Ouse.

There were 10 Juniors representing Luton at the CRT National Celebration in September, where we won numerous prizes and many were invited to participate in the Daiwa/CRT Global communities’ event in October, and we posted all the results of these competitions at the time.

Both these CRT events are held in Shropshire. All our young anglers did very well, keeping Luton at the forefront of Junior angling nationally.

One of our Juniors competing in a Wednesday Club outing managed to achieve a catch of over 100lb in a five hour session, and we have also had several great catches from the Canal this year some of which have been entered and have been awarded prizes in the CRT ‘Fish of the Month’ Competition

We would like to publicly thank all the parents, as without their support with travel to the events we couldn’t achieve these results, and those anglers who have so generously donated unwanted tackle that was fit for further use to either be sold to raise funds or passed on to our young anglers.

Well done to all our young anglers we are very proud of all of you.

We have an equally full program planned for 2026 and always have more room for qualified coaches to support our work.

Bursaries are available to help gaining the required coaching qualifications, it is very rewarding, so if you are interested in coaching with us please let us know.

Coaching 2025 Round Up

Match Report and end of year celebration buffet ‘The Globe’ – GUC 17/12/25

This week was our Christmas match and our end of year celebration at ‘The Globe’ which is always a popular event. We had a record attendance of 26 fishing, and some of our friends who couldn’t fish the match, joined us for the celebration buffet afterwards, swelling our numbers still further. Our fishing this week was 10am to 1.45pm, shorter than usual to allow us to weigh in, pack up, and get to the pub in time for our buffet at 3pm.

The weather on the day was better than we expected, given the heavy rain last weekend, and indeed the rain on the following day (Thursday), so we were lucky to have a clear window. We did, however, have an overnight frost, early morning mist, and drizzle at times through the day which was quite cold. The canal had turned a milky coffee colour due to the influx of rainwater, and the water temperature was measured at 7C. Given the conditions we all expected the fishing to be difficult, and so it proved with low weights overall and several anglers recording DNW.

Chris Howard found himself pegged close to a tree and decided to fish a 3‑metre whip and bread punch rather than try and use a longer pole. Chris said he tried worm over looking for bream, but quickly gave it up as a bad job. He had a good day on the whip, ending with 4lb for first place.

Sean Leatherland took second place with an almost all‑roach catch. Sean said he started fishing at 3 metres on squatt and took a few fish, then changed to a 12‑metre line using punch over punch crumb which he found more productive, so stayed on this line to the end, finishing with 3lb 3oz.

Keith Ward started on punch down the track to no avail but had fed chopped worm over, so switched to that, catching four small perch. Keith then changed to groundbait with pinkie on the hook and started to catch skimmers on the line used earlier for punch. This produced a decent skimmer followed by a roach, then several smaller skimmers. Keith finished with 2lb to take third place.

Following the weigh‑in we all made our way to The Globe to meet our non‑fishing friends and enjoy a beer and our end of year celebration buffet and present exchange, which was excellent and enjoyed by everyone. We also presented Sean Leatherland, this year’s winner, with the Wednesday League Shield, which he won with one match to go.

Many thanks are due to The Globe and the staff for allowing us to park in the car park and for providing such a great buffet; to Barry Roper for the pegging in the dark; to Ray Burton for the admin; and to all who assisted with the weigh‑in and helped make the day a resounding success.

We now enter our winter break and don’t fish together again until February. We will post details of the first match nearer the time.

We would like to wish all our fellow Luton Club members and others a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Abridged Results

1st Chris Howard – 4lb 0oz

2nd Sean Leatherland – 3lb 3oz

3rd Keith Ward – 2lb 0oz

4th Dave Abbott – 1lb 11oz

5th (Joint) Dave Ridley & Colin Holmes – 1lb 1oz

Wednesday Match Group

Report from the 8th round of the 2025 Sunday Series.

Sorry for the delay in providing this report but better late than never! - The 16th November saw the final round of the LAC Sunday series take place at Three Locks between Three Locks and Chelmscote Bridge.

With the top 3 places still to be decided and the league being based on the best 5 results from the 8 matches, it was all to fish for.

Thankfully the forecast rain generally held off and every one caught albeit not an easy days fishing.

To make the top places required you to have caught a bonus fish. And that was the case for Dudley Frankland who won the match with 3lb 4ozs which included a beautiful perch well of 2 and a half pounds. Dudley caught his fish on the pole with worm and pinkie.

In 2nd place was Tim Watts, one of the club's canal aces, with 2lb 9ozs. Tim caught his fish on the pole on pinkie over groundbait.

Keith Ward had struggled for much of the match but he stuck to the task in hand and was rewarded with a large bonus perch near the end of the match to weigh 2lb 7ozs. For the overall standings, that bonus perch proved vital for Keith.

At the end of the match, we retired to the pub and the overall standings were quickly worked out, but it was clear that the overall winner was Chris Howard. Chris has had a superb Sunday Summer Series and well deserves the outright win.

The league 2nd place was won by Myles Tommey who continues to maintain high finishes in the LAC leagues. However, Myles only made 2nd place due to a better over match points having drawn with third place on league points.

The bonus perch for Keith Ward was indeed important as that helped him pip Sean Leatherland for 3rd place overall. Both anglers have had consistent performances.

The 2026 LAC Winter League will start on January 18th 2026. The league is based on 5 canal matches that run from January to March. The dates are 18th Jan, 1st Feb, 15th Feb, 1st Mar and 15th Mar.

This is a friendly league and anyone interested in joining, please let the organiser know. The matches are open to eligible 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.

GUC Three Locks – 16th November 2025 - Match Result

Dudley Frankland (Peg 3) – 3 lb 4 oz, Match Position 24, Section Position 1, League Points 6
Tim Watts (Peg 6) – 2 lb 9 oz 8 dr, Match Position 23, Section Position 2, League Points 5
Keith Ward (Peg 9) – 2 lb 7 oz, Match Position 22, Section Position 1, League Points 6
Danny Worth (Peg 4) – 2 lb 1 oz 12 dr, Match Position 21, Section Position 3, League Points 4
Terry Vickers (Peg 13) – 2 lb, Match Position 20, Section Position 2, League Points 5
Adrian Smith (Peg 11) – 1 lb 14 oz 4 dr, Match Position 19, Section Position 3, League Points 4
Chris Howard (Peg 1) – 1 lb 12 oz, Match Position 18, Section Position 4, League Points 3
Sean Leatherland (Peg 10) – 1 lb 12 oz, Match Position 18, Section Position 4, League Points 3
Dave Whillock (Peg 12) – 1 lb 4 oz 8 dr, Match Position 16, Section Position 5, League Points 2
Peter Deppe (Peg 2) – 1 lb 4 oz 8 dr, Match Position 15, Section Position 5, League Points 2
Pete Smith (Peg 7) – 1 lb 3 oz 8 dr, Match Position 14, Section Position 6, League Points 2
Myles Tommey (Peg 8) – 9 oz 12 dr, Match Position 12, Section Position 6, League Points 2
Richard Darbon (Peg 5) – 13 oz 12 dr, Match Position 11, Section Position 6, League Points 2

Winter League – Overall Standings

Chris Howard – 30 lb 12 oz 4 dr, 113 match points, 28 league points
Myles Tommey – 24 lb 11 oz 8 dr, 111 match points, 25 league points
Keith Ward – 9 lb 11 oz, 100 match points, 25 league points
Sean Leatherland – 12 lb 13 oz 4 dr, 103 match points, 24 league points
Dave Abbot – 15 lb 4 oz 8 dr, 101 match points, 22 league points
Danny Worth – 12 lb 3 oz 8 dr, 104 match points, 21 league points
Pete Smith – 9 lb 3 oz, 97 match points, 20 league points
Dave Whillock – 6 lb 9 oz 8 dr, 83 match points, 17 league points
Adrian Smith – 10 lb 12 oz, 93 match points, 16 league points
Peter Deppe – 7 lb 2 oz 4 dr, 91 match points, 16 league points
Bart Bonito – 6 lb 15 oz 8 dr, 77 match points, 16 league points
Terry Vickers – 7 lb 11 oz 8 dr, 87 match points, 15 league points
Dudley Frankland – 7 lb 1 oz 12 dr, 83 match points, 14 league points
Tim Watts – 6 lb 6 oz 4 dr, 58 match points, 14 league points
Richard Darbon – 3 lb 1 oz, 61 match points, 12 league points
Liam Willis – 11 lb 12 oz 12 dr, 47 match points, 12 league points
Colin Macbeth – 2 lb 7 oz 8 dr, 30 match points, 7 league points
Peter Mills – 2 lb 10 oz 12 dr, 21 match points, 4 league points

As we bring this week’s report to a close, here’s wishing all our members a very Merry Christmas. Thank you for your support, and the effort you put into keeping the club thriving.

Enjoy the festive break, and we look forward to starting a fresh year of fishing together in the New Year.

Tight Lines
Dave M
Luton AC

Luton Angling Club - Weekly News, Information and Catch Report Roundup - Week Ending 21st December 2025

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