Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 26th January

SPECIAL NOTICE

A service will be held for us to remember the life of our good friend and colleague John Morris at the Vale Crematorium Butterfield Green Road, Luton, LU2 8DD on Monday 17th February 2020 at 2pm. A celebration of John's life will take place afterwards at the Leaside Hotel, 72 New Bedford Road, Luton, LU3 1BT.

EATON FORD

Our bailiff at Eaton Ford, Stewart, his son-in-law and LAC member Glen, have opened up the bank at the extreme south end of the fishery giving access to the entrance of Duloe Brook into the Ouse and river frontage with shelter afforded by moored craft. It should prove to be an amazing swim.

GREAT OUSE

LAC’s Chairman Fergal O’Kane was out on the Great Ouse and caught a 19lb 12oz chunk of a pike!

Dariusz Blahuta with some fine pike catches.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Jack Beresford caught a beautiful 10lb 7oz pike.

Wojciech Dunaj sent us a picture of the largest of two Pike he caught from North House Lake, both were caught using lures.

Gareth

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 19th January

 SPECIAL NOTICE

It is with great sadness that Luton Angling Club has to announce the sudden and unexpected passing of club secretary John Morris.  John has been a board member and the club secretary for many years and has worked tirelessly for the benefit of the club and all its members. He was extremely popular and well liked by all who encountered him. He will be severely missed by all. The club would like to send its sincere condolences to his family and friends at this time.

THE GRAND UNION CANAL

Dariusz Blahuta caught a beautiful pike on a cold but sunny day.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Jon Angell caught 6 pike from North House lake and took a picture of the best of the day.

WYBOSTON COMPLEX

Filip Dunaj caught a lovely mirror in its winter colours at 20lb+ from South Lagoon.

Peter Nichols caught a 27lb 11oz Common from the South Lagoon earlier this week. A superb winter catch.

The club were sent some flood pictures of South Lagoon and the Great Ouse at Wyboston.

MATCH RESULTS

Abbey Lads fished Town South but found the going patchy when a boat put the fish off after a good start. One of the matchmen hooked something very big which just swam away stretching the elastic until the hook straightened!

Hanwell fished Grove Marina on a very windy day last Sunday. The best weights tended to be at the pub end of the marina, although good stamp bream were caught half way along. The best weight was 14lb of mainly bream and skimmers, followed by 11-7-0 and so on down to the poor soul with a catch of 8oz!

Queen’s Works A.C fished their 6th Winter League match on The GUC near The Globe pub last Sunday. All 17 anglers struggled for bites but Vince Baron won the day with 3lb of roach just ahead of Andy Dilley on the next peg who had 2lb 13oz. Steve Cooper was 3rd with 2lb 3oz. Stuart Kiteley won the first section with 1lb 11oz and the second section was shared by Steve Dunham and Mark Ellis with 1lb 10oz a piece. Steve Townsend won the prize for the biggest fish with a perch of 1lb 8oz which was the only fish he caught! The Wooden Spoon was presented to Richard Newman who finished last with 3oz! With only 3 matches remaining, Steve Dunham tops the table being 7 points ahead of Stuart Kiteley and Dave Pearson.

Gareth

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 5th January

 THE GREAT OUSE

Dariusz Blahuta fished the Ouse on New Year's Eve and had a lot of fun catching some pike.

Gareth Evans had a nice start to the year with an 8lb pike.

After fishing the Biddenham stretch, our Bailiff Des and his wife cleared up the slippery platforms after the recent flooding.

Mark Zan started the year off with a jack from the Great Ouse at Wyboston.

NORTH HOUSE

Brad Pearson caught a great looking common.

GRAND UNION CANAL

Charlie Newton had a hard day lure fishing on the GUC but her perseverance paid off and resulted in a nice perch and small pike.

Jonny Cox had a great start to 2020 with a beast of a mirror from the GUC weighing 29lb 5oz.

After having no success at 4m on bread punch, Dennis Hunt moved out to 7m and pinkie on a size 20, and had a few dozen gudgeon and a small perch. This was all during his annual tradition of fishing the canal on the first day of the year.

BECKERINGS

Dale Carter had a common from a wet and windy Beckerings in the early hours of the 3rd of January. Weight 23lb 8oz.

SOUTH LAGOON

Jamie Squires caught a 13lb pike.

MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION

Mark Chandler won the £25 December photo competition. Well done to Mark who caught a stunning 17lb 1oz pike from the Biddenham stretch of The Great Ouse in December.

Gareth

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 29th December

 BECKERINGS

Phil Randall had a stunning 19lb common from Beckerings at first light.

THE GREAT OUSE 

The Ouse at Wyboston was flooded with water levels extremely high.

SOUTH LAGOON 

Simon Heath caught a good-sized Zander.

Gareth

Luton Angling Club Weekly News Report for the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire & St Neots Cambridgeshire Area - Week Ending 22nd December

 PREDATOR FISHING

Wojciech Dunaj went lure fishing last weekend and managed to catch a pike from the Ouse at Eaton Ford and a pike from South lagoon. 

Dave Brosnan caught two very nice pike from North House. 

Mark Zan and Filip Dunaj both caught very nice pike from South Lagoon. 

Gareth Evans caught a beautiful 11.5lb pike from North House.

THE GREAT OUSE

Despite the river Ouse being flooded, Filip Dunaj still decided to fish it and this resulted in a cracking winter common.

Over the past couple of years we have been carrying out improvement work at our River Ouse venue at Eaton Ford turning it from a wilderness into a nice place to fish. The latest phase of the work has involved clearance of all the fallen trees and vegetation in and around the backwater channel and pool. Our next phase when the ground is drier and firmer is to remove some of the silt from the pool for extra depth. We have already seen fish moving around in the backwater and think this will make a great place to fish in the winter when the main river is in flood as well as providing a spawning area for fish in the spring. Thanks to Stewart the bailiff for arranging the resources to get this work completed.

NORTH HOUSE LAKE

Over the past seasons the water level in North House l has slowly been dropping . The club has been endeavouring to establish the reason as historically the lake has been naturally filled by an inlet pipe that was feed by a spring or by the water table when it was high enough. This season board members have contacted the EA to obtain permission to allow the club to pump water from the nearby river and have been organising the necessary pumping equipment. However with the extreme weather we have experienced  over the past few weeks the bailiffs are reporting that for the first time in many years water from the river is actually pushing up the lakes overflow pipe and by passing a settlement chamber and can be seen entering the lake. They are estimating that if it continues over the next few days the lake will be back to its normal level.

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT 

With all the wet weather we have started to add a river level widget to our river venues pages on the club website. The data is taken from the nearest monitoring station to the venue so should give a good indication of the current river state. 

Gareth