19^th November 2006

The weather this week has severely affected the fishing on our waters, the heavy rain has firstly kept anglers off the bank and as the water has found its way into the rivers they have become swollen and in some cases come over their banks.

At Lavendon the section below the weir was over and into the surrounding fields on Sunday and the river sections in the North of the county were at the top of the banks and pushing through. Hopefully if there is no more rain during the week they may be ok by next weekend

On the South Lagoon the fishing started off at the start of the week quite well with John Constantine taking a tench of 7lb 14oz and another tench of 5lb 11oz falling to the rod of John Rutter, Regular Simon Heath took pike of 12lb and there were plenty of roach and perch being caught on float fishing tactics, With the water entering from the river and the sudden fall in temperature the sport over the week end slowed with few fish showing, how ever with the river in flood this usually means the Lagoon soon picks up as the fish from the river move in and take shelter.

On North house as predicted sport has started to improve after the falling temperatures of last week, Jason Regan had a common of 17lb and Bruce Starling had a mirror of 19lb 9oz with the best fish of the week falling to Brett Herdiman at 22lb 7oz he also had a smaller fish at 15lb.

At Beckerings the bailiff reports very few anglers have fished this week, a few small pike have been caught with very little else reported. Repairs have been taking place to the platforms that have become damaged over the season anyone able to assist please contact fisheries officer Ken Scott (see the forum for more info)

The match this week was an inter club fished against Leighton Buzzard AC at Dolphin Lane the visitors won the day.

Top Luton weights were

1^st was W Nichols with 4lb 8oz

2^nd was R Tebbutt 4lb 4oz

3^rd was Dave Read with a weight of 1lb 8oz 8drm

Visiting club Bardag AC fished on section 10 last Sunday, 

1^st was Adrian Phipps who had 24lb 12oz of bream and perch he took bream to 2lb 8oz on corn and perch to 2lb on worm

2^nd was Andy Barrow who totalled 15lb 5oz with good quality roach with a few odd skimmers taken on squat making up his weight

3^rd was Phil Hoad who had a mainly skimmer catch for a weight of 10lb 11oz.

Do any of you have the journalistic bug and want to put pen to paper to write or suggest articles for next year's membership newsletter? We will consider any topics relevant and of interest to all the Club members for inclusion, remember not all our members have access to the Website so the newsletter is a good way of sharing information. It could perhaps be a few notes on your favourite water, or a really good day somewhere, or a general article on fishing, or ideas on what the membership in general want to see. So let’s get some ideas please.

If you would like to participate in this you must be a Club Member, and accompany your article with your membership number (Credits will be given for articles published) If so please get your thinking caps on, and turn it into an article for us. We can't guarantee publication of course, but suggestions for inclusion, perhaps accompanied by photographs can be e-mailed to the Club. It would help us if you let us know what you are going to come up with of course, we don’t want all the topics to be the same!

We have a copy deadline of the end of January, so why not use a few hours over Christmas to help. Let’s make this next issue a bumper one with plenty of interest for everyone.

Gary Scott

Luton AC Press Officer