June & July 2025

Danny Spring ledgered sweetcorn on an IPA stretch of the Ivel in Biggleswade and tempted a barbel of 9lb 8oz and two chub of2lb and 3lb.

Neil Bygrave has spent some enjoyable sessions on Broom River since the start of the new season. His initial problem was finding clear areas amongst the prolific weed growth, but managed to identify a few fishable spots. Neil has mostly been fishing a 4m whip down the margins and has had the roach lining up on red maggot with the occasional dace, plus perch to around a pound. Neil caught 54 fish during his latest session made up of perch to 12oz, roach, dace, gudgeon, chublets, ruff and a surprise brown trout of around 12oz, which fell to half a lobworm fished down the nearside margin.

Mick Baldwin has continued to target Willington Lake with scaled up tench/bream ledger tactics. One trip produced 7 tench to 5lb 13oz, a 10lb 5oz carp and a bream of 5lb 9oz for a total weight of 49lb 11oz. Mick’s next trip produced 4 tench to 5lb 6oz and 3 bream to 6lb 5oz for a total weight of 35lb 11oz. Mick’s fishing diary shows that he has caught 176 fish for a total weight of 1,129lb 15oz from Willington Lake since the spring, which includes 115 bream, 33 tench, 32 carp, 4 eels, a pike and a roach.

Daniel Ryan made his first ever visit to The Airman this week and was very pleased with the result of his 36h session that resulted in a 24lb 2oz mirror, 9lb 2oz bream. 20lb catfish, 14lb fully scaled mirror, 17lb 4oz mirror , 40lb catfish and 17lb catfish.

Mick Baldwin spent the first day of the new season at Broom Lake and his ledger tactics resulted in 7 bream for 32lb 14oz. Mick has fished Willington Lake 7 times in recent weeks. Mick has managed to keep catching by constantly tweaking his rigs, baits and changing swims. His sessions have produced: 2 bream for 10lb 1oz; 2 bream for 11lb 4oz; 5 bream and 3 tench for 39lb 2oz; 7 bream, 3 carp, 1 pike, 1 perch and 1 eel for 57lb 9oz; 6 bream, 2 tench and 2 carp for 55lb 5oz; 3 bream, 3 tench. 2 carp and an eel for 50lb 8oz; 2 bream, 4 tench, 1 eel and a roach for 33lb 10oz. Mick’s fish have included bream to 7lb 12oz, tench to 6lb 6oz and eels to 4lb.

Karim Dhanji struggled to catch carp at The Airman during the recent heat waves but did managed a 15lb mirror. Karim also managed a few chub from the Ivel at the start of the new river season.