Author: shanelovell

After a lot of hard work this year, and the amazing work done by a small team of dedicated people, we had a significant milestone today….
1000 Crucian Carp, 500 Tench and 250 Rudd were stocked into Bridge Pool. All 18 months old, of varying sizes, as can be seen in the photos. Plenty of space to grow for a short while.

This is an initial stocking, supplied by the EA Agency from their Calverton Fish Farm. These fish are supplied, funded by revenue from rod licences.
More fish will follow, once these have had time to settle. We will confirm when these will be stocked, and when we can open the lake in the New Year.

Thanks again to all those who have helped us get to this point, it wouldn’t have been possible without you!!

Tim

Important Announcement

Following many requests, for many years, and following the continued loss of several independent tackle shops who have supported us, BAA have now signed up to the Clubmate portal for online membership and day ticket sales.
We hope this system will bring many benefits, including better access for membership and ticket purchases, club communications, etc. It is a positive step forward for BAA.

Whilst moving to this system, it is our intention to change memberships to run for a 12 month period from purchase, rather than January to December as we currently do, to encourage more members to join through the year.
We will also open all rivers and canal to days tickets for non-members, although this will include a small cost increase to non-member day tickets prices.
To be clear, there will be NO non-member day tickets for lakes.

We are currently configuring the new system but hope to get this live early December. It is our intention that all new 2025 memberships will be purchased on this system, and paper day tickets will be phased and swapped out by the end of January.

We do appreciate we will have members who are not as familiar with online systems as others, we will hold open days at Hunstrete to assist with purchasing memberships and day tickets.
On these days we will also support members who have already purchased day tickets in advance, swapping the paper versions to credits on your account.

We’ll post more details as we have them and confirm as soon as we are live.

Hi all
A few photos of Bridge Pool looking good today.
Water levels have shot up in the past few weeks, to almost full now.
The EA are visiting in the next few weeks to complete water checks, and will also discuss fish stocking options with us.
I’ll update when we know anything else to add. That’s all info i have so far.

Clearly there needs to be a massive thank you to all the people that have contributed to get Bridge looking like this. A very small group of people have done an awful lot of work. It felt like a never ending task at times, but seeing it in the sun today made it worthwhile. Can’t wait to see it full of people catching fish.

We can also now start working on Main very soon, so anyone at a loose end on a Saturday, shout and check we’re going to be there. The more help we get, the quicker we get through it.

Craig Bastin has had people starting to help clear Main lake on Wednesday’s if anyone wants to help but can’t make weekends. Get in touch to see who’s going to be there.
Thanks to all who have been helping on Wednesday’s so far, it is teally appreciated.

We are looking for Bailiffs.
BAA are looking for volunteers to help support us at Newton Park during the week and on our stretches of rivers in Bath.
We are looking for people to take a regular fixture of weekly visits to check tickets, general attendance, security and environmental checks.
No experience is necessary but you must be reliable, regular and understanding this is going to be in all weather’s and times of year.
If you are interested, please send me a message on Messenger with a little bit about you and what you can offer, we’ll give you a call back and arrange a meet at Hunstrete.
Thanks. Tim

Hi All.
Not really had much to update since the last photos of Bridge Pool, but I’ll add as much as I know.
The main digging on Bridge has been finished, the lake bed was limed, and aerators have been relocated as advised, so we just need to let it fill again now.
Unfortunately we can’t control how fast it fills, hopefully it won’t take long, so I can’t give a timescale. We then need to let the lake settle and ph return to good levels. We are taking advice on how long the lake needs to settle once filled, I’ll update that when we have a single timescale agreed.
There have not been any discussions over fish stocks yet. Exact species and numbers will be agreed in conjunction with our advisers to make sure we have a good balance of the right fish.
Works around the lake continues, including tree and hedge work, swim repairs, etc. Anyone interested in helping, we are there pretty much every Saturday and would appreciate any help… although we are not there this coming Saturday, we’re having a day off.
We are focusing on finishing as much as we can on Bridge first, then we move attention to Main. We don’t get enough help to do both at the same time.

As before, a huge thank you to those that do turn up and work extremely hard. It wouldn’t be possible without you.

I’ll add as much as soon as I can

Tim

Bridge pool is now completed just waiting for the rain. Well done everyone involved so far but still lots of other works to complete.