Here is all the catch reports, news and information for the week ending 12th April 2026.
Our renewals are well underway and many of our members have already renewed their membership for the 2026/27 season which starts on 1st June.
Existing members please note that you have priority to renew during April. Any member who has not renewed by the end of April risks losing their place as on the 1st of May any un-renewed membership is released on general sale to potential new members and with demand high they will sell out fairly quickly.
Please check your emails as you will have received a renewal invitation. You can also access the renewal system via the club website.
Beckerings Reservoir
Don't forget Beckerings is closed on Wednesday this week for a Wednesday Match. The reservoir will re-open at around 4:30pm for anyone wishing to have an evening or overnight session.
Darren Savage caught a lovely Common on Tuesday evening. It looked great in the evening sun.
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| Darren Savage - Beckerings |
Last week after a slow session Kletos said, "There's always next time"...well that statement has certainly proved itself this week as Kletos and his son Nathaniel visited Beckerings and were rewarded with an amazing session.
They managed 4 Carp between them, Nathaniel had two, a Common at 19lb 12oz, which Neil Cox helped us with whilst on his rounds, a Mirror at 17lb 6oz and Kletos managed two Commons 15lb 4oz and 17lb 10oz. They had a couple of Bream around 4lbs too.
To top it off they both had their first ever Catfish, one each, during a mad 40 minute spell just after first light in the morning. Kletos had the first which weighed in at 45lb 7oz, which took about 15 minutes to land.
Then literally 10 minutes later Nathaniel had a great run which resulted in a 20 minute fight with what turned out to be a Catfish weighing 56lb 9oz.
The two Catfish were weighed and witnessed by a nice gentleman named Frank and as such Nathaniel will be putting another Club Record claim in!
He really is on a roll. Both fish are their biggest ever and the latter took some serious team work to get in the net!
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| Nathaniel 56lb 9oz Catfish |
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| Nathaniel 56lb 9oz Catfish |
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| Kletos 46lb 7oz Catfish |
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| Kletos - Common Carp, Beckerings |
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| Nathaniel - Mirror Carp, Beckerings |
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| Mirror Carp, Beckerings |
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| Nathaniel - Common Carp, Beckerings |
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| Beckerings Reservoir |
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| Beckerings Reservoir |
North House Lake
Martin Scholes did a 48hr session on North House he only had one fish. It was caugh using mad baits pandemic with corn and hemp feed and on a 12mm pineapple pop up thanks to Jason Mash for taking the photo.
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| Martin Scholes - North House Lake |
South Lagoon
Nobby Clarke had a decent session on Friday at the South Lagoon here's his report
"I found a few decent roach on the whip 9lb 6oz not a big weight by any means but nevertheless very good sport , I had a nice chat with Barry one of the bailiffs which is always a pleasure never a chore .
The roach are quite rough on the flanks so they have either done the deed or getting ready to.
Most fell to wheat with about 5 on hemp. It's defo worth having a few hours on the lake but you have to pick your swim with care. I fished peg 23 on Wednesday and also had a nice bit of sport , today I was in peg 25 which is the first time I’ve been able to get in that swim as its a popular one.
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| Nobby Clarke - South Lagoon |
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| Nobby Clarke - South Lagoon |
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| Nobby Clarke - South Lagoon |
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| Nobby Clarke - South Lagoon |
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| Nobby Clarke - South Lagoon |
Let's Fish Event - Town South - Grand Union Canal
The club ran it's first CRT ‘Lets Fish’ of 2026 today (Sunday 12th April) It took place on the Grand Union Canal at Town South section in Leighton Buzzard and we managed to deliver 16 taster sessions.
The weather was mixed, warm when the sun shone, and quite chilly at times when the wind blew, it put waves on the canal at some points. We even had a couple of light showers!
Despite the conditions the boys and girls attending really enjoyed their sessions and all caught at least one fish, the majority catching some nice specimens. We had Roach Perch and Bream and even some Gudgeon.
We are very hopeful that we will get some sign up for our Kingfisher program and join us on the bank again soon.
For some reason the boys appeared very shy and didn’t want their pictures taken this week but fortunately the girls didn’t seem to mind at all!
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| Lets Fish - 12th April - Town South |
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| Lets Fish - 12th April - Town South |
Match Report 8th April 2026 GUC Braggenham Side / Three Locks Upper
Wednesday this week was a beautifully warm spring day, with light winds, one of the warmest of the year so far. We had 20 anglers turning up to fish so had to split the match into two sections using Braggenham side towards Three Locks and Three Locks to Chelmscote bridge.
The canal was holding nice colour, and with the warmer weather we were hopeful of some better catches, but the fish seemed to have other ideas and sport was patchy, perhaps due to fish gathering to spawn. Those fishing above the locks had more consistent sport. There were several boats that passed us during the morning but only a few during the afternoon.
After fishing punch and pinkie down the track without a bite for the first hour and a half, Keith Ward eventually found some Bream, he fed groundbait laced with caster and worm, using worm as bait and after 10 minutes he had his first good bream, followed by a hybrid and then another bream, the swim then died probably due to the amount of boat traffic. Keith weighed in 3 decent fish for 10lb 9oz
Colin McBeth started at 13m over groundbait but had no sign of fish so later in the match he fed with chopped worm and tried down the track and inside again,but again had no bites. He then went across to 14m looking for small fish but still no bites! He then went back to 13m and topped up with a small ball of chopped worm and had a skimmer and nice perch then hooked large bream which took him into a snag and he lost it. Colin had another couple of small fish late on pinkie over groundbait, ending with 2lb 8oz.
Above the Locks Tim Watts went with plan to fish for small Roach on the inside line but this failed to work and he and made mistake of sticking with it too long and with the two anglers to his left getting odd small Skimmers, Tim adapted and went for these instead saying that very different feeding/rigs and patience was needed.
He fished the remainder of match at 11-14 metres, and was well behind but he got some decent Skimmers late on and ended up with 5lb 7oz
Barry Roper took second in section, saying that after a quiet first hour he started to catch small hand sized skimmers at 11 metres on pinkies over groundbait. With an hour to go he was double boated and only had two further fish weighing 3lb 11oz.
Richard Gibbs decided to concentrate on two lines, nearside and right over. He fed punch crumb at 3.5 metres and fished a pinkie. He had a few roach in the first hour and bites tailed off so he went on the waggler to the far side fishing shallow with a 3bb canal waggler, fishing single pinkie to a 22 hook. He had bites straight away and again caught roach and small skimmers until a misplaced cast went in a bush. He continued fishing with the pole over while loose feeding the nearside. By midday things had really slowed up. He took two small perch off the nearside and then stayed on the pole over to take the occasional small fish until the end. Richard said it was the sort of day where you had to continually think about what to do and adapt to get a few bites, so to achieve that he was constantly changing rig depths and shotting patterns which seemed to work. He was still able to take a few small fish in the last hour while those around him were struggling.
Unluckiest Angler yesterday was Dudley Frankland who had a nightmare day! firstly he lost an expensive pole section in the canal, but that was thankfully recovered for him by Bart Bonito. Then later in in the day he got badly snagged on a far bank bush and in pulling to get his gear back the No 3 section snapped leaving part of the No 3 section and his top two snagged in the bush.
Fortunately, the crew of a passing narrowboat ‘The Far Side’ were able to recover the snagged pole sections and return them to much thanks from Dudley and a round of applause from all the anglers.
Many thanks for all who did the admin and weighed the sections, again a real team effort
Results
1st Keith Ward 10lb 9oz
2nd Tim Watts 5lb 7oz
3rd Barry Roper 3lb 11oz
4th Richard Gibbs 2lb 12oz
5th Sean Leatherland 2lb 10oz
6th Bart Bonito 2lb 9oz
7th Colin McBeth 2lb 8oz
8th Dudley Frankland 2lb 4oz
9th Dave Willock 1lb 12oz
10th Dave Abbott 1lb 4oz
11th Chris Howard 0lb 14oz
12th Colin Holmes 0lb 11oz
13th Dave Ridley 0lb 7oz
14th Syd Wilson 0lb 4oz
DNW Richard Darbon, Dennis Hunt, Les Burton, Ray Burton, Simon Faulkes, & Terry Vickers
Our next match is Wednesday 15th April and is at Beckerings which is closed for the duration of the match. This match is now fully subscribed.
Those already booked and taking part - Meet at the venue promptly for an 8.30 draw as usual. £5.00 optional pools plus £2.00 Luton pegging fee, Fish 10.00am – 3.00 pm
anyone who is joining us for the first time please bring your club membership book with you as you will be asked to produce it for your first appearance.
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| Wednesday Match 8th April |
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| Wednesday Match 8th April |
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| Wednesday Match 8th April |
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| Wednesday Match 8th April |
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| Wednesday Match 8th April |
Thank you to everyone who continues to support the club, share their catch reports and keep the club thriving. Please send in any catch reports via our social media pages or the club website as they really do help the club.
Tight lines.
Dave M
Luton AC
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