Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Reports

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

Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Report 14th May 2017

Weekly News Report 14th May 2017

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

Some nice fish being caught although none of the catfish which go to over 50lb have made an appearance yet.

Top catch this week was Kieran Cove with six carp including a personal best mirror of 28lb and a 22lb 14oz common.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Scott Yates landed a 30lb common which isn't a known fish and Brian Turner an 18lb 12oz common.

KEMPSTON LAKE

The lake owner called me in the week and said bream to 14lb were being caught at around 30yds by spodding out a big bed of pellet and fishing a feeder over it. He said that 5-6 double figure bream during a day session was common.

Steve

28.jpg - Kieran Cove 28lb pb mirror from Beckerings Reservoir

22-14.jpg - Kieran Cove 22lb 14oz common from Beckerings Reservoir

30.jpg - Scott Yates 30lb common from North House Lake

18-12.jpg - Brian Turner 18lb 12oz common from North House Lake

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 7th May 2017

A very quiet week for reports with only North House Lake regular Ethan Griffiths sending in photos.

Ethan caught the common known as the Baby Lobe Tail at 27lb 9oz which continues his run of success on the lake.

Elsewhere work has started to restore our Great Ouse river fishery at Eaton Ford which unfortunately had been allowed to become unfishable due to a lack of volunteers and funding some years ago. An Angling Trust grant of £4500 funded by rod licence money has meant we can employ a contractor to carry out much of the heavy work needing large machinery while the clubs new band of volunteers will match the funding with man hours working at the fishery until the end of the year.

Luton Angling Club will be running our first angling 'Taster Session' of the year on the Grand Union Canal at the Globe Linslade LU7 2TA on Sunday 14th May.

We will have our qualified coaches in attendance between 11am and 4pm and if you have not fished before and want to try come and give it a go.

You don't need to bring any tackle, bait or rod licences, its ALL provided and the coaching sessions are FREE. Individual sessions usually last 30 minutes each, but if we have spac...e and you want to you are welcome to stay and fish on.
Our very first Taster Session last year at the Three Locks went very well with a 3 yr old being our youngest attendee and an 83 yr old being the eldest so you're never too young or too old to give fishing a go for the first time or get back into it after time away.
We would appreciate you telling us you intend to come by giving us notice via the 'Learn to Fish' page on our website or text Dennis who is one of our qualified coaches on 07956 685316

Members have by now received their 2017/18 renewals and they can renew either on line, by post or in one of our Tackle Shop outlets.

Steve

Eaton Ford.jpg - Our contractor has made a start on the restoration of our Eaton Ford river fishery

2016.jpg - Last summers Taster Session at the Three Locks

27-09.jpg - Ethan Griffiths with the Baby Lobe Tail at 27lb 9oz from North House Lake

2017-18 Membership Books.jpg - Our new season membership books are now available to buy

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 1st May 2017

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Plenty of catches this week from North House.

Braidan Tidmarsh fished with his dad Paul with Braidan landing commons of 24lb 8oz and 19lb 10oz plus a 20lb 4oz mirror and Paul managing a 17lb 6oz mirror and 14lb 8oz common

New member Allan Howard-King kept up his good run of form with four carp to 18lb 8oz, 2 bream and a tench.

James Geekie caught a 16lb 9oz mirror.

Catch of the week goes to Bob McDonald who banked the common known as Myrtle at 32lb 2oz but sadly his camera battery had died, Bob also had a 26lb 9oz mirror and 18lb common.

KEMPSTON LAKE

Form water Kempston continues to put others in the shade

Luke Marvin put a string of good carp on the bank up to 28lb and son Callum had a decent bream.

Simon Jeffries got amongst the lakes bream with specimens of 10lb & 7lb 8oz

Paul Williams had a 17lb 7oz common.

SOUTH LAGOON

Pawel Ceks tempted one of the Lagoons pike at 13lb

A fishing taster day is planned for Sunday 14th May on the Grand Union Canal at the Globe 11am - 4pm. All are welcome to attend to give fishing a try with our qualified coaches. All equipment and bait is provided courtesy of a Lottery & Sport England grant. Refreshments are available from the pub.

Steve

24-08.jpg - Braidan Tidmarsh 24lb 8oz common from North House Lake

26-09.jpg - Bob McDonald 26lb 9oz mirror from North House Lake

10.jpg - Simon Jeffries 10lb bream from Kempston Lake

28.jpg - Luke Marvin 28lb mirror from Kempston Lake

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 23/4/17

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

The mirror known as the Half Lin has been out again at 31-08 to Ross Honeyman which is a new top weight for this fish.

Also fishing Beckerings John Dennis managed a 20lb 8oz mirror

KEMPSTON LAKE

Kempston has been fishing well with numerous doubles falling to Luke Marvin, Simon Jeffries, Paul Williams & James Lockyer. Simon Jeffries also added bream to 10lb during his session.

SOUTH LAGOON

If we had a stunning fish of the week prize it would go to Matt Hardys 19lb 10oz scaley mirror from the South Lagoon.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

North House has been quiet for reports this week but Aaron Seldon did manage a 24lb 7oz common

WORK PARTY UPDATE

Our work party team of volunteers were at Beckerings Reservoir where the rotten platform at peg 9 was completely rebuilt. A big well done & thanks to those that gave up their time.

Steve

24-07.jpg - Aaron Seldon with a 24lb 7oz common from the South Lagoon

19-10.jpg - Matt Hardy and his stunning mirror from the South Lagoon

31-08.jpg - Ross Honeyman with the Half Lin at 31-08 from Beckerings Reservoir

peg9.jpg - Rebuilt platform at peg 9 Beckerings Reservoir

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 16/4/2017

Our qualified coaches were on hand at the Stockwood Park Country Fair on Easter Sunday & Monday arranging fishing related activities for the youngsters. A Luton Angling Club junior membership is only £5 for a whole year and lets you take your child (under 16) to a vast amount of waters to enjoy all the benefits the outdoors & fishing provides. Even if you are not an angler then bring your children to one of the many Taster Fishing events we are holding through the summer as we will be delighted to see you (keep an eye on our Facebook page for the dates). Luton AC recently secured a Lottery & Sport England grant to help us attract youngsters into fishing and so far its going very well. We have now been able to fund two level 2 coaches and three level 1 coaches plus equipment such as our brand new gazebo for events. We still have funding available for a further 2 coaches when the right people are found that can dedicate the time and effort that is necessary.

BECKERINGS RESERVOIR

John Dennis caught the mirror known as the Half Lin at an impressive 30lb 4oz

KEMSTON LAKE
John Dennis proved he can also catch at Kempston Lake by netting a 25lb 11oz mirror

Luke Marvin managed a 28lb mirror

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Junior member Ethan Griffiths had a session to remember when he fished with his father Warren breaking two junior records in the process. His tally reads as follows 31lb 4oz mirror known as Pecs (Junior Record), 27lb 4oz common, 26lb common known as Lobe Tailed,17lb 8oz common & a 9lb bream (Junior Record). Warren managed a tench but did take some great photos of his sons catches!

New member Allan Howard-King visited North House Lake for the first time landing commons of 24lb 12oz, the Orange Common at 21lb 10oz and a 13lb common.

Steve

31-04.jpg Ethan Griffiths 31lb 4oz mirror

27-04.jpg Ethan Griffiths 27lb 4oz common

24-12.jpg Allan Howard-King 24lb 12oz common

Stockwood Park Fishing Activities.jpg - Our qualified coaches were on hand at the Easter Stockwood Park Country Fair

Gazebo.jpg - Our new gazebo funded by a Lottery & Sport England grant

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 9th April 2017

North House Lake

The mirror carp known as the Wanderer has been caught twice this week at 30lb 4oz by Braidan Tidmarsh and then 5 days later at 31lb by Richard Seldon. Braidan also included a 16lb 4oz common during his session.

Andrew Medlock landed a 22lb 15oz common and a 20lb 5oz mirror.

Beckerings Reservoir

James Lockyer managed 3 carp in a six hour afternoon session at 23lb 2oz, 18lb & 15lb 10oz

Nice roach to 1lb 8oz and perch to 2lb are being caught

Kempston Lake

Two unnamed anglers enjoyed 35 carp to 25lb during their 48hrs on the lake. The lake owner reports that tench over 10lb and bream over 12lb have been caught in the last 2 weeks.

Match Result

Toddington Fishing Club visited The Globe stretch for their match on 2^nd April but found the bright sunshine didn’t help the weights.

=1^st Dave Britton 5lb 8oz

=1^st Paul Stacey 5lb 8oz

3^rd George Day 5lb 6oz who also lost a sizeable pike

The track at Wyboston which serves the South Lagoon, North House Lake & the river is to undergo much needed repairs very soon as both Luton AC and the Heron syndicate have made contributions to the owners of the Wyboston complex.

Another week and another work party this time at Beckerings Reservoir where the car park fence was replaced along with lots of pruning of the willows and work on one of the platforms which had rotted was started.

Steve

31.jpg - Richard Seldon with the Wanderer from North House Lake at 31lb

23-02.jpeg - James Lockyer with a 23lb 2oz common from Beckerings Reservoir

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 2nd April 2017

Our 14 month for the price of 12 deal has been flying off the shelves this week and we are rapidly running out of books and keys.
New members joining now on line via our web site www.lutonanglingclub.co.uk (postal applications also accepted) will be able to fish from 1st April 2017 until 31st May 2018 at no extra cost so you will benefit from almost 14 months fishing for the price of 12 months.
When all of the current membership books and keys are used up the deal will end & be removed from the web site so be quick as we will not be printing more or having extra keys cut.

North House Lake

Ashley Irvine managed a 22lb 1oz mirror on his first ever session on North House Lake while regular Scott Yates caught the mirror carp called Terrys Mirror at an impressive 31lb 5oz

Match Result

Abbey Lads fished on the town stretch of the canal sections A & B on Sunday 26th March.

1^st L Willis 14-12 Bream & perch

2^nd K Ward 9-08 bream

3^rd D Willock 7-02

The latest work party was well attended and held on the clubs impressive and immaculately kept River Great Ouse Biddenham fishery where a new swim was created and some tackle catching tree branches were removed.

Beckerings Reservoir will be closed on Saturday 8th April from 9am until 5pm for a work party. There is lots to do on and around the platforms plus the car park fence to repair so if you can lend a hand please feel free to turn up even if its just for a couple of hours. Once the work party ends those that want to fish may do so with the venue reopening to all members at 5pm. Anyone booked on Friday night through to Saturday morning will have to vacate their swim no later than 9am.

Luton Angling Club Weekly News 19th March 2017

Apologies for no report last week as illness and then a faulty pc set us back.

David Richards chose to fish the Wyboston Ouse just before the river season closed and caught a 6lb 4oz chub.

Simon Heath continued his run of zander from the South Lagoon with two fish to 8lb 10oz Lots of silver fish are being caught from the South Lagoon so perfect for the pleasure angler.

On the adjacent North House Lake the carp are starting to wake up from the winter with Bob McDonald managing commons of 25lb & 19lb 8oz.

Beckerings Reservoir is fishing well judging by the many photos on social media with plenty of doubles and some 20lb+ fish gracing the bank with even talk of a 31lb 4oz fish being caught although none of the catfish that go to over 50lb have made an appearance this year yet.

Once prices for next seasons membership are set at our AGM on 23rd March Luton AC will be selling new memberships on a 14 months for the price of 12 months basis which will allow fishing from 1st April 2017 until 31st May 2018.

Keep an eye on our web site & Facebook pages as this deal will only be available direct from the club during April & May. A lot of work was done over this weekend by four volunteers to the track and entrance to our Biddenham river section when we had around 50 large bags of gravel donated by Wojciech Dunaj from Luton. Thanks to Wojciech for his kind donation which will benefit our members visiting Biddenham when the river reopens for fishing on 16th June.

Our next work party will be held at Beckerings Reservoir on 2nd April starting at 9am so if any member can lend a hand then please get in touch.

Steve

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report - 5th March 2017

Weekly News Report - 5th March 2017

We'll start this week with with the South Lagoon where regular Simon Heath had a Zander of 9lb 4oz and another slightly smaller at 8lb 6oz. Craig Gibson had three Bream to 5lb 4oz.

Also at Wyboston on the Ouse Tony Sharp had a nice chub of 6lb 2oz which he caught on luncheon meat see picture below.

On the canal, visiting angler Paul Nash caught a 2lb Perch on Section 8 at Grove

The final round of the predator match series was held on Sunday 5th March but with the Ouse at Biddenham pushing through near the top of its bank and rising throughout the match confidence wasn't high that anyone would catch. Heavy rain and wind dampened the spirits further with the river flooding into the far side field. Club Secretary John Morris saved the day with a pike caught close in on a roach deadbait and seemed pleased with his trophy although his unhooking mat fell victim to the wind and floods and was last seen heading downstream towards Bromham!. Luckily a patch of deep soft moss in his peg made a natural alternative.

The overall winner of the series is Dave Brosnan.

North House Lake was closed on Saturday for a work party and lots of the trees were trimmed allowing better access and casting from many of the pegs lots of rotten branches were also removed to prevent them coming down and causing snags.

Terry the bailiff built up some of the slippery surfaces on the popular pegs using ballast. Our thanks to the volunteer members that attended - John Morris, David Farmer, Terry Willison, Barry Stevenson, Neville and Kevin Hunt, Damon Smith and Mark Gaddison.

Our next work party is at Beckerings Reservoir on 26th March 2017 and we would really like to see some more of our members at our work parties so please come along if you are free. Tea and Coffee is provided and the barbecue is fired up on many of our work parties too!

The Club's Annual General Meeting will be held at Stopsley Working Mens Club, Putteridge Road, Luton, LU2 8HG on Thursday 23rd March. Members should make every effort to attend. Please make sure you bring your membership book with you. Parking and a Bar is available at the venue.

Predator Match Round 5 Biddenham 5/3/2017

The final round of the predator match series was held on Sunday 5th March but with the Ouse at Biddenham pushing through near the top of its bank and rising throughout the match confidence wasn't high that anyone would catch.

Heavy rain and wind dampened the spirits further with the river flooding into the far side field.

John Morris saved the day with a pike caught close in on a roach deadbait and seemed pleased with his trophy although his unhooking mat fell victim to the wind and floods and was last seen heading downstream towards Bromham!.

Luckily a patch of deep soft moss in his peg made a natural alternative.

The overall winner of the series is Dave Brosnan.

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report 26th February 2017

Weekly News Report 26th February 2017

Beckerings Reservoir has been re-filled and the water level is now back up to its normal levels, Fishing is steady and the bailiff reports that one member fishing a 48hr Night session this week had 8 carp to 28lb.

On the River Alan Lawrence fished one of our sections of the Ouse again this week. He fished from Mid Afternoon and did not have a single bite during daylight but around 2 hours into darkness his rod tip pulled round and a 7lb 4oz Chub graced his landing net. He has not divulged exactly which of our river venues he was fishing

We really appreciate any report that is sent to us by our members we know a lot of hard work goes into catches like this but it helps us to know how the venues are performing and we will not disclose the exact details of reports sent to us unless you give us the OK to do so.

Braggers AC fished on the Luton AC controlled Grand Union Canal on Sunday 19th Feb and had 21 fishing.

1st - 7lbs 1oz

2nd -5lbs 6oz

3rd - 4lbs 11oz

A massive Perch of 3lbs 11oz was caught in this match.

Despite the mild weather the match did not see a single boat go through and the matchmen thought weights would have been better if they had a bit of movement.

North House Lake will be closed on Saturday 4th March between 09:00 and 16:00 whilst venue maintenance is carried out. Anyone wishing to book on for the night on Friday must leave the venue by 08:00 on Saturday and anyone booking for Saturday night should not arrive before 16:00hrs

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Luton Angling Club - Weekly News Round-Up 19th February 2017

Weekly News Round-Up 19th February 2017

At last this week with the better weather we have had a few more reports coming in and some nice catches to report.

Alan Lawrence fished one of our stretches of the River Ouse on the 16th February and had a great session with Chub of 6lb 6oz, 5lb 5oz, 4lb 12oz and 4lb 2oz a picture of the biggest fish can be seen below.

Phil Anderson and his son Callum fished our short stretch of the River Ouzel near Leighton Buzzard on the 15th February and caught some fantastic Perch using a crayfish lure.

Also getting success with the Perch is Marc Hill who sent in a picture of a 3lb 10oz Perch caught this week from the Canal along with a photo of another nice Perch he has had from the River Ouzel recently all of which can be seen in the photo galleries on our website at
www.lutonanglingclub.co.uk

On the lagoon, Regular Simon Heath had a monster sized Pike see picture below, this is the biggest Pike that we have had reported for a while. Simon also sent us in some other photos from last year of some of his more notable captures from the lagoon. He clearly puts in the time and effort as he has had some great fish over the last year from the venue

Match Fishing Magazine was on the Grand Union Canal at Leighton Buzzard with Preston Innovations/Browns Angling's backed Graham West and they were live on facebook, a recording of these videos can be seen on our facebook page. They caught a nice net of fish including Perch of 2½ - 3lb. The article will appear in an upcoming issue of the magazine.

Fergal O Kane fished the Ouse at Biddenham on Sunday and managed a 9lb Pike he also had the pleasure of catching lots of small fish using a centre pin and crow quill Avon.

Our final Predator Match of the season takes place on Sunday 5th March on the Ouse at Biddenham. Every season this 42 peg stretch which the club own produces perch over 3lb, chub over 6lb and decent pike all of which count in this predator match. Its £10 to take part with a nice trophy up for grabs and every penny raised goes to Keech Hospice If you want to take part please get in touch using contact details at the bottom of this report.

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Alan Lawrence 6lb 6oz River Ouse Chub