Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 13th August 2017

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Robbie Sessions age 11 caught three carp to 25-08 during a short afternoon

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Filip Dunaj managed a very dark 22lb common

Carlo Borromeo took the whole family along and included the Orange Common at 21lb in his three fish catch.

David Dewar tempted the mirror known as the Wanderer at 29lb.

KEMPSTON LAKE

Kempston regular Luke Marvin banked a lovely coloured 20lb+ mirror

WOODLANDS LAKE

James Ashley with some of his Woodlands captures.

GRAND UNION CANAL

Alex Buey with one of the 3000 stockies many of which were fully scaled mirrors introduced into the Grand Union Canal at Grove & the Globe at just 3" approx 5yrs ago. Good to see a survivor of that stocking growing on.

GREAT OUSE LAVENDON - NEW PARKING

Our old grassed locked parking area is soon to have a barn built on it but the good news is that we will have access to a much larger car park on the left as you drive in from the road (see photos). We will keep you updated as to the progress but we are told you can use the new parking straight away.

The clubs next Lets Fish taster event is being held on 20th August on the Grand Union Canal at the Globe, keep an eye on our web site & Facebook page for more details

MATCH REULTS

22 fished the Braggers match on the Great Ouse at Biddenham on Sunday 6th August no names given but the weights were -

1st 15lbs from permanent peg 5 roach & perch

2nd 10lbs from permanent peg 6 roach & perch

3rd 8.5lbs from permanent peg 30 which was 2x bream both over 4lb.

Enfield Highway fished the Grand Union Canal at Ivinghoe on 6th August with all the weights made up of small fish.

1st B Keens 9-06

2nd J Fisher 8-01

3rd T Mann 7-06

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 6th August 2017

Another good week for catch reports and some great photos

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

We hadn't heard about the mirror known as the Wanderer for some time but Braidan Tidmarch managed to tempt her at 28lb 7oz along with a 20lb 10oz common.

Braidans dad Paul Tidmarsh managed a double figure common during the same session.

Shaun Ayris landed his first North House Lake fish in the shape of a 20lb mirror.

North House regular Carlo Borromeo took his son Harvey along for his first overnighter and was finally rewarded for fishing through the rain with a double figure common in the morning.

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Ian Dilley caught five between 15lb & 22lb during an evening and overnight session using a combination of zigs and Richworth baits.

SOUTH LAGOON

Zbigniew Oskowiak caught a lovely looking common of 28lb. Dave Brosnan reports catching lots of bream during his session at the Lagoon.

WOODLANDS LAKE

Multiple carp and tench catches with plenty of crucians, roach and bream. Filp Dunaj managed a pretty little koi from Woodlands.

RIVER GREAT OUSE

Fergal O'Kane caught a big perch which he described as a big 2lber. Fergal has caught them to over 3lb from Biddenham

MATCH RESULT

Enfield Highway fished Beckerings Reservoir Sunday 30th July

1st J Fisher 31-06 mostly bream plus 1x carp 12lb

2nd B Keens 27lb mostly bream to almost 8lb

3rd W Fisher 25-12 mostly bream
Best bream was caught by Roger Reeves at 8-03 and a few tench were caught from 6 inches up to 5lb.

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 30th July 2017

The unseasonal weather hasn't put the fish off for those that have braved the wind and rain this week

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Nathan Sharp managed a 22lb 3oz common,

Carlo Borromeo five to 24lb 4oz

David Dewar a 25lb 4oz mirror

Catch of the week goes to Steve Osborn for tempting the Shadow Common for the 3rd time in eight months at a weight of 33lb

KEMPSTON LAKE

Luke Marvin continues to catch with his latest session resulting in 9 fish to over 20lb.

BARRETTS MERE

Young Callum Marvin fished with his dad catching plenty of small carp along with quality crucians & roach.

MATCH RESULT 23rd July 2017

Sensas Oakwood Canal League Round 4 Grand Union Canal - Globe through to Chelmscote

1st. I. Orbell (Browning Northants. Red) 24-7-0 2nd S. Joy (Matrix Image) 21-14-0

3rd T. Boyce (Sensas A4) 19-4-0

4th S. Brooks (Browning Hot Rods) 18-14-0

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 23rd July 2017

Catch reports from a variety of waters this week

SOUTH LAGOON

Pawel Ceks managed a 16lb common and 20lb of skimmers & bream from the Lagoon

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Ian Aldridge tempted commons of 24lb & 22lb 8oz, Lee Moore a 22lb 4oz common, Filip Dunaj a mid double common and Adrian Jaworski a 20lb common.

KEMPSTON LAKE

Luke Marvin landed a 20lb+ mirror and an upper double common

RIVER GREAT OUSE

On the Ouse at Wyboston Wojciech Dunaj lure fished catching several perch and pike before one particularly big pike managed to snap his rod in two. Estimated at over 25lb the pike managed to then throw the lure.

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Connor Brown banked a 20lb 2oz mirror

Lots more good work from 9 volunteers on Saturday at the club owned River Great Ouse Biddenham venue. Invasive rushes and lillies were removed from swims along with many willow branches. Our Biddenham venue has over 40 swims from deep and wide to narrower and faster flowing being a firm favourite with visiting match groups.

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 16th July 2017

It was great to see so many children attend the latest Lets Fish event hosted by Luton Angling Club & the Canal & Rivers Trust on the Grand Union Canal at the Three Locks on Saturday 15th July. Despite the damp conditions all 65 time slots were booked up well in advance and extra fishing stations had to be put out to meet demand. The event ran for 5hrs with considerable time and effort from our qualified coaches and volunteers going into arranging the day along with the setting up and packing down making it a full day for those involved. Well done to all, hopefully we now have a few more children & families that will take up angling. If you missed out on this event our next Lets Fish event is at the Globe PH section on Sunday 20th August 2017 keep an eye on our Facebook page for more details.

MATCH RESULT

The Sensas Oakwood Canal League had their latest round on Sunday on the Grand Union Canal spread between Town South, the Three Locks Picnic Area and Stoke Hammond

We don't have all the names or exact weights

1st Dave Tebbut 65lb from the Town - all bream

2nd Graham West 45lb from the Town - all bream (next peg to 1st place)
3rd 26lb from Stoke Hammond - all bream
There were a few other 20lb weights and lots of double figure weights of small skimmers. Only 2 carp were caught fish of 10lb and 5lb.

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Tommy Pattison continued his good run of form with a 23lb mirror and 20lb common. Kevin Hunt managed four carp to 22lb 2oz, Karl Jones a 24lb mirror, Filip Dunaj five doubles and on his very first trip to the reservoir Damian Brown landed three double figure carp.

RIVER GREAT OUSE

Pawel Ceks caught another good eel from the river

SOUTH LAGOON

Following his eel Pawel moved onto the South Lagoon where he landed an 8lb zander

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Regular Scott Yates caught two to 24lb, Ian Aldridge tempted the mirror known as Pecs at 30lb 1oz and another mirror of 25lb 8oz. Mantvydas Paulauskas had a 22lb common

WOODLANDS

Filip Dunaj reports lots of carp to double figures are being caught.

GRAND UNION CANAL

Two visiting carp anglers from Dagenham have managed 14 carp from the canal between them in two day sessions with the largest being 21lb 11oz and others of 19lb, 2x 18lb, 2x 17lb, 1x 16lb, 6x 10-15lb with only one fish being under 10lb. The dredge continues to work between Grove Church and Grove Pub and it will also dredge along to the flyover over the next fortnight.

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 16th July 2017

MATCH RESULT

The Sensas Oakwood Canal League had their latest round on Sunday on the Grand Union Canal spread between Town South, the Three Locks Picnic Area and Stoke Hammond

We don't have all the names or exact weights

1st Dave Tebbut 65lb from the Town - all bream

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

RIVER GREAT OUSE

Pawel Ceks caught another good eel from the river

SOUTH LAGOON

Following his eel Pawel moved onto the South Lagoon where he landed an 8lb zander

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Regular Scott Yates caught two to 24lb, Ian Aldridge tempted the mirror known as Pecs at 30lb 1oz and another mirror of 25lb 8oz. Mantvydas Paulauskas had a 22lb common

WOODLANDS

Filip Dunaj reports lots of carp to double figures are being caught.

GRAND UNION CANAL

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 9th July 2017

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

The reservoir continues to fish well with multiple catches commonplace. Filip Dunaj managed several with a 21lb 8oz mirror being his best, Keiran Cove caught 3 good sized carp, Adrain Jaworski 2 commons to 18lb 2oz, Tommy Pattison a 16lb common and 19lb mirror with new member Karl Jones landing a 17lb common.

GRAND UNION CANAL

Steve Sharp spent 2 hours searching for the carp on the canal and then less than 1 minute with his bait in the water before landing a 19lb 12oz mirror. Steve then packed up and went home very happy with his minute spent fishing.

The dredge is working between the Grove Pub and Grove Church but the fish aren't being put off with good bags of skimmers, perch, better bream and roach being caught even right next to the dredge itself.

EATON FORD

The river Great Ouse at Eaton Ford continues to produce good sized tench and eels during daylight hours on a variety of baits in the deep water.

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 2nd July 2017

A sad start to this weeks news with the passing of our President Peter Frost.

An old friend of Peter's phoned our Secretary today to let us know and to advise that the funeral will take place at the Crematorium, Stopsley Luton on Thursday 20th July at 2.00 pm then onto the United Services Club in Dunstable where Peter was a member for 40 years.

Personally I only met Peter a handful of times usually at the clubs AGM and fishing the Grand Union Canal at Grove Church where he would out fish my boilies using simple worm tactics landing numerous double figure carp while I sat fishless.

An all round specimen angler Peter fished with well known carpers such as Jack Hilton, Bill Quinlan and Len Arbery to name just a few during the early 1960s catching a 31lb carp from Tiddenfoot which was I believe the biggest caught in the UK in the 1960/61 season.

Jack Hilton wrote about Peters exploits in his book Quest for Carp and he was inducted to Carp-Talks Hall of Fame in 2014.

He set up various specimen groups including one for perch on the River Great Ouse and wrote books which you can still get hold of today.

Fishing has lost a legend. Those who had the privilege to know him, have lost an irreplaceable friend. Our condolences go out to his family. Peter will be sorely missed by all.

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Kieran Cove caught 8 carp during an overnight session including a 28lb personal best common

Mark Woolley & Gareth Dawkins enjoyed 13 carp to 20lb using Mad Baits Pandemic fished in conjunction with a Korda Cog Lead Rig

TINGRITH MERE

Luke Wilden age 15 managed to subdue a 19lb 8oz ghostie

MATCH RESULTS

Not exact weights but the latest round of the Sensas Canal League fished on the Grand Union Canal was won with 32lb (mudflats) second 23lb (mudflats) third 22lb (mudflats) and 14lb (Slapton) came fouth. Winning section weight at Grove was 9lb, Broad Oak was 5lb and Stoke Hammond 12lb.

A few interesting captures with two small catfish to 1.5lb and an ornamental koi of 3lb.

Chairmans Shield fished on the river Great Ouse at Eaton Ford

1st. Mark Sessions 4lbs 5 1/2oz

2nd John Morris 3lbs 12oz

3rd Bob Burdiak 1lb 12oz

After the match had finished club secretary John Morris landed a sizeable eel over 2lb

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 25th June 2017

16yr old Filip Dunaj had a week to remember after finishing his GCSE exams he spent 24hrs in baking temperatures at North House Lake Monday through to Tuesday where he managed three commons and mirrors to high doubles on Mad Baits.

While his father Wojciech attended a Luton AC Board meeting on Thursday evening Filip got dropped off at the nearby Beckerings Reservoir to do some lure fishing for perch & pike using a light lure set up.

Letting his small spoon drop through the 15ft depths Filip quickly realised something was a miss when straight after casting and his bale arm open line continued to leave his spool at an every increasing rate.

Some 20 minutes later and he had the largest catfish in the reservoir at 56lb in his landing net. The catfish is a potential club record and would add to Filips 10lb zander record he caught in 2015 as a junior.

Father & son then went along a stretch of local river where both caught barbel & chub with Wojciech catching his very first barbel.

GRAND UNION CANAL

Scott C caught the well known Two Tone mirror at 24lb 12oz

KEMPSTON LAKE

Pawel Ceks landed a 22lb common

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Brian Turner banked a 26lb personal best common

MATCH RESULT

Toddingtons Saturday match on the Grand Union Canal at Ivinghoe was hampered by very strong wind and overall weights were poor

1st Dave Britton 6lb15oz mainly skimmers

2nd Steve Lathwell 4lb 10ozs mainly small roach

3rd Dave Ridley 1lb 10oz all roach

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 18th June 2017

18th June 2017

The start of the new river season coincided with a heatwave and made catching anything something of a challenge.

Our Chairman Dennis Hunt also braved the 30 degree heat on Saturday putting his level 2 coaching to good use on the canal for the son of a Guardian newspaper reporter which should appear in Mid July. Many thanks to the Brownlow B&B for allowing the use of their facilities.

RIVER GREAT OUSE

On an undisclosed section of the River Great Ouse Pawel Ceks found the bream feeding and landed them to 6lb.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Regular Carlo Borromeo managed six carp to over 20lb all caught on Mad Baits

Lee Moore once again caught the mirror known as Pecs at a spawned out weight of 28lb and added a 23lb 8oz common for good measure.

MATCH RESULTS

Tavern Otters Eastern Enfield A.S. fished the Grand Union Canal on Sunday 11th June

1. D. IONTTON 15.10.0

2. J. KELLY 14. 9.0
3. A. MILLS 10.12.0

The winning weight consisted of mainly Skimmers and Roach caught on the pole, down the middle, using a mixture of corn, pellet and maggots. It was mainly Skimmers and Roach caught throughout, one angler had a couple of 3lb Bream. There were no Carp caught.

15 members fished the match, the total weight was 81.05.0.

The Sensas Canal League were also on the canal where over 27lb won the day with many other 20lb and double figure nets. No surprises or exotic catches other than a terrapin being seen.

Steve

Luton Angling Club News Report 11th June 2017

A very busy week for Luton Angling Club

In preparation for the start of the river season on 16th June our team of volunteers where busy strimming the nettles at Lavendon on the River Great Ouse where some big chub were seen in the margins.

Sunday 11th June saw the South Lagoon on the Wyboston Complex was the latest venue for the clubs grant funded taster day on for beginners and novice anglers. The event was very well attended with families bringing children along to enjoy the fresh air, sunny conditions and a completely free event.

All of the club gate locks have now been changed including all river venues so only the new 2017/18 keys will work.

GRAND UNION CANAL

The canal is fishing a storm with the Grove Church to Grove Marina section being the most popular for good weights of roach & skimmers. Alex Buey landed a good size canal carp from an undisclosed section controlled by the club on Five Star Baits.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Steve Osborn has landed the much sought after Shadow Common at 33lb 8oz, this is Steves second capture of this fish.

Carlo Borromeo has been catching lots of good carp from North House in recent weeks on Mad Baits.

While visiting his brother in Ireland Luton AC Treasurer Fergal O'Kane has been fishing Sligo Bay where he caught large numbers of Pollock & Mackerel.

Steve

33-08.jpg - Steve Osborn and a repeat capture of the Shadow Common from North House Lake

Carlo.jpg - Carlo Borromeo with one of his many captures from North House Lake in recent weeks

Alex.jpg - Alex Buey and a good size Grand Union Canal carp

Fergal.jpg - Fergal O'Kane has been enjoying good Pollock & Mackerel fishing from Irelands Sligo Bay

Strimming.jpg - Volunteers busy strimming the Ouse at Lavendon ahead of the new river season

Wyboston.jpg - Getting ready for the South Lagoon Taster Day