Harvie Millier from Eaton Socon fished North House Lake on the Wyboston Complex near St Neots and caught a 21lb 7oz Common Carp fishing to a plateux at 30 yards. and a 24lb 8oz Mirror Carp from a gap in a weed bed at 15 yards. Both fish were caught using a Korda running rig with The Fix boilies from local company Innovate Baits.
On the South Lagoon also at the Wyboston Complex Andy Smith fished peg 26 and caught over 60lb of bream and skimmers to 8lb.
On the River Great Ouse next to the South Lagoon new member Paul Altabas fished peg 1 and caught a 6lb 8oz tench on a Nutrabaits pink pepper pop-up boilie. Paul also caught an 8lb Common Carp using three 10mm boilies fished on the bottom.
Elsewhere on the river spawning seems to be over but the clear water has made fishing challenging but there seems to be plenty of skimmers, roach and bleak being reported.
Kevin Rudgley and Richard Emmerson both from Houghton Regis Beds were again in action on the Grand Union Canal at Grove Church Bucks catching a large number of carp up to 14lb 11oz using various boilie combinations presented as snowman rigs.Tom Sanders has been fishing most evenings along the Chelmscote Bucks section of the Grand Union Canal and has caught 37 carp in the last 7 days with the largest being an 18lb 9oz Common Carp caught on a Vitabaits boilie.
Peter Moore from Leighton Buzzard fished near Pitstone Marina Bucks and caught a 19lb 6oz Mirror Carp and a 20lb 3oz Common Carp off the top using a white pop-up boilie.
The Slapton section of the canal is fishing very well for quality roach with fish well over 1lb featuring in nets of 20lb+Woodland Lake on the Tingrith Lakes Complex continues to fish very well. Bailiff Barry Fox from Flitwick Beds and his grandson Lewis from Luton both caught nice tench and bream. Kevin Chadwick had carp to 6lb+ and tench of 3lb+. Brian Ferrett had 6 tench to 3lb and 9 bream of 2lb+. Sid Worthy caught tench to 3.5lb, 5 bream and carp to 3lb along with many small tench and silver fish. John Constantine had a good mixed bag of bream, tench and carp.
Brothers Roy and Henry Willis had 10 tench and 6 bream to 2.5lb plus rudd and roach. Roger Dew reported catching a 5lb tench. Committee members Charlie Riddock and Joanne Edwards shared a 60 fish catch with Charlie reporting that he caught 14 tench and 8 good sized bream. Roger Blythe reported having a great day on the pole catching many tench, bream and carp to over 3lb. Unfortunately discarded line has been found around several of the swims and is an obvious danger to wildlife. Anyone found leaving line or litter on any of the clubs waters is likely to receive an automatic ban (Appendix A Club Byelaw 3 refers).
This weeks match results:
Davis Cup fished on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton sct 10a
1st Toby Bird 47lb 10oz – Bream and skimmers
2nd R Tebbutt 15lb 8oz (Bream and silvers)
3rd N Dawson 11lb 12oz (Bream and silvers)
Section winner
P Currell jnr 9lb 6oz (Bream & Silvers)
Chairmans Shield Match Grand Union Canal at Grove Church sct 9a (silver fish only match)
1st David Edwards 4lb 14oz
2nd Brett Herdman 3lb 13oz
3rd Dave Marsh 2lb 12oz
Unluckiest angler was fouth placed Dave Murdoch from Luton who missed the keepnet with two good sized bream that he says would have won him the match.
Luton Angling Club Membership Books for the 2009/10 season are now available from the club Membership Secretary telephone 01582-728114 or download an application from the web site www.lutonac.org . Application forms are also available in select tackle shops. Luton AC represents excellent value for money as ALL of their stillwaters are open for a full 12 months and there is no premium for night fishing.
The new river season is now in full swing and through a water share arrangement with Barnet Angling Club Luton AC members may also fish several additional stretches (not listed in the membership book) of the River Great Ouse, River Ivel and River Thames, maps that show parking areas etc are available to download from the club web site or by sending a request with an A5 sae (large size stamp please) to the club office. These waters offer excellent fishing for Barbel, tench, bream and carp.
Please phone/text your catch reports from Luton AC waters to 07704462635 or email catchreports@lutonac.org and if you have pictures taken on your phone send picture messages to 07876331180. Remember to always use an unhooking mat when targetting specimen fish, keeping the fish as low to the ground as possible when taking photos.
Check out the Luton AC website at www.lutonac.org for all the latest catch reports, news, pictures and membership details.
Steve Sharp
