Kevin Rudgley from Houghton Regis Beds fished peg 23 at Beckerings Reservoir Near Flitwick Beds and had a heavily scaled 20lb 2oz Mirror Carp half an hour after casting under the marginal willows using a large piece of strawberry maize tipped with orange pop up fake corn. The Mirror Carp was landed on a light 1.5lb tc rod with Sufix 15lb brown sheath skin and a Korda size10 kurv shank hook.
Kevin Rudgley 20lb 2oz Beckerings Mirror Carp
Jim Badgery from Shillington Beds fished the Grand Union Canal South of Leighton Buzzard Beds and caught his first 20lb canal carp in the shape of a 22lb 6oz Mirror Carp caught using a popped up tiger nut boilie. Jim added other carp to 6lb+ and skimmer bream to 1.5lb on pole fished corn.
Jim Badgery 22lb 6oz Mirror Carp
Steve Lucas from Luton has been fishing the Grand Union Canal near Pitstone Bucks and caught over several evening sessions fishing until dusk Common Carp of 14lb, 13lb 2oz, 17lb, 13lb 5oz and Mirror carp of 14lb 12oz and 8lb all on Mistral Rosehip boilies.
Mr Turner, a day ticket angler, reported catching about 60lb of Bream from the Golf Range Section with fish up to 6lb on Dynamite Baits frenzied sweetcorn.
Club Member Mr Pennington fished at Grove Church Bucks catching Common Carp of 16lb 8oz, 5lb and 7lb on Richworth strawberry boilies.
Lee Tavener from Leighton Buzzard caught a 10lb Mirror Carp from Grove Church Bucks on a Mainline boilie.
You may recall that Kevin Wilmot Editor of Total Coarse Fishing Magazine fished the Grand Union Canal at Chelmscote Bucks for a feature on general coarse fishing in May 2009. Afterwards Kevin summed up his session as ‘excellent’ and you can find out what he caught in the July issue available to buy on 10th June 2009.
The canoe half marathon reported recently will take place on the Grand Union Canal between Broad Oak Bridge 109 to Slapton Lock 30 on Sunday 14th June 2009 between 12pm & 2pm. As there will be a considerable number of canoes, marshalls, spectators and obvious disturbance to the water it has been agreed that we will close scts 5-10 for angling from 11am until 3pm on the day.
Woodland Lake on the new Tingrith Complex opened in style on 1st June with Darren Perry catching over 100lb on the pole made up of 21 tench averaging 2.5lb, carp up to 6lb+ and lots of skimmers and roach to 1lb. Press Officer Steve Sharp also fished the same venue on opening day for only 3 hours and caught many tench and bream to 3.5lb. By special permission of the Board a small selection of fish he caught in a 30 minute period were briefly retained for the attached photograph to show the quality of the fish to be caught. It is recommended that keepnets are not used at this venue in the interests of fish welfare due to the large number of fish that are likely to be caught in a very short space of time. Steve also caught lots of skimmers and roach to 1lb+ and an 8oz Silver Bream with all the fishing being caught on either Van Den Eynde pellet or Dynamite Baits frenzied sweetcorn.
Lewis Vereecque age 7 grandson of Tingrith bailiff Barry Fox who we featured in April with a personal best 14lb 8oz Common Carp from Beckerings Reservoir also fished Woodland Lake during the week and caught a mixed bag of tench, bream, roach and carp.
Many anglers reported carp to around 8lb which have grown on quickly as at last Septembers netting carried out by Framlingham Fisheries the largest was 4-5lb.
The match season started this weekend in pouring rain and very cool conditions. The overnight cold rain kept weights on the low side. Luton AC fished an Interclub match against Tring at the Golf Range the top three were:
1st Wayne Bousted 5lb 1oz
2nd Pete Currell Jnr 4lb 10oz
3rd Barry Bashford 3lb 10oz
The 72 peg teams of 6 South Canal League was also hit by the weather with Oakwood Angling winning on the day. Top weights were:
Individuals:
1st Lee Newsome Fox Blackhorse 22lb 11oz – 14lb carp and skimmers
2nd Gary Brittain Team raiders 15lb 5oz – 1 carp
3rd Gary Eales Oakwood Angling 14lb 2oz – skimmers
4th Lol Breach Oakwood Angling 11lb 10oz – skimmers
Teams:
1st Oakwood Angling
2nd= Fox Blackhorse & Oakwood N14
4th Team Raiders
Lewis Vereecque – Woodlands Common Carp
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. Application forms are also available in select tackle shops. Existing members should have received a renewal form in the post, please renew so that your membership does not lapse. 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.
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.
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 – Press Officer
