Afternoon all anyone fishing Withy Pool on Wednesday 7th there will be a little bit of noise due to on going work. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
Category: Announcements
Sad news R I P Stuart Knee
R I P Stuart Knee. The committee heard the sad news recently. Stuart was elected to the committee in 1978 he became Head Bailiff about 1984 to 2024. Stuart was heavily involved with all the projects the club took on. Reinforcing the main-lake dam wall at Hunstrete, creating the first Withy Pool, the restoration of Newton Park lake, the creation of the first Bridge Pool and building the Hunstrete Complex as it is today. Plus swim clearing on the river. Stuart’s health had been declining slowly over the past several years and became less active around the fisheries but still managed the bailiffs. Tight lines Stu.
AGM Monday 9th June 2025
Notice is given for the Bathampton Angling Association, Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2025.
Monday 9th June 2025, 7pm start
Location – Keynsham Royal British Legion.
8 Charlton Road, Keynsham, Bristol. BS31 2AZ.
Should members wish to raise a proposal at the AGM, this must be issued in writing to the Chairman, giving 28 days notice of the AGM. Proposals received within 28 days of the AGM will not be actioned.
Please email proposals to philmorris1944@gmail.com, copied to timcooper965@gmail.com (General Secretary).
Please note. Proposals raised are discussed during the AGM and will be carried to the following Committee meeting for further consideration. No results of any proposal will occur during the AGM.
There are currently no proposals raised by the committee for this AGM.
Monday 10th February 2025 Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)
- We would like to notify all current members of an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) for the Bathampton Angling Association to review and approve changes required to the Constitution to reflect allowing a rolling 12 month membership from the point of purchasing a new membership through Clubmate, where the existing constitution states memberships run from January 1st to December 31st each year. Plus other general changes made to reflect the online purchase of memberships and day tickets, instead of shop purchases. No other points are raised for discussion.
The meeting will be held on Monday 10th February 2025 at Keynsham Royal British Legion, starting promptly at 7pm.
The EGM is only open to current full members of BAA, where memberships are registered on Clubmate. Please note, joining Clubmate is not a membership to BAA until fees have been paid.
Checks for current membership may be made prior to allowing entry to the meeting.
Happy New Year 2025
Just wanted to wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year from all at BAA.
We are all hoping that 2025 will be a much better year and we can start getting some normality back.
We would like to give a HUGE thank you to all of you that have helped us this year. We wouldn’t have got where we are without you. We have achieved a huge amount but still have a lot to do.
Bridge Pool now has fish stocked, with another delivery of fish now expected mid-January (date unknown), where we will be adding more Tench and Ide. I’ll update everyone when we have more detail.
We are now concentrating on Main Lake, any help on Saturday’s or Wednesday’s would be really appreciated. The more help we get, the quicker we get the work done and we can plan fish stocking.
Just a reminder we are now active on Clubmate and have good numbers joining, plus we have been able to get others active memberships where needed.
Please remember you will need an active membership and buy day tickets to fish from tomorrow, 1st January 25, or purchase river and canal day tickets as needed.
Hope to see you on the banks this year.
Thanks, Tim
Bridge Pool stocking
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 NOTICE
Important Notice.
As a thankyou to all current 2024 Bathampton Angling Association members, who have supported us through a very trying year, we are offering free day tickets on the Newton Park and Dave Crookes Fishery lakes starting on Monday 9th December. This will cease at the end of 31st December.
Members MUST have their membership tab with them and will be asked to present it to bailiffs when asked. Failure to present a tab will lead you to being asked to leave immediately. Photos or copies of tabs will not be acceptable.
This is for current membership holders only and is not applicable for new memberships purchased in December. Anyone purchasing a new membership when they are released in December can fish the venues but will be required to purchase a day ticket.
Any non-members looking for day tickets to fish the rivers, please contact the Membership Secretary who will be able to advise how you will be able to purchase tickets if you do not have an outlet near you selling tickets.
Thanks
DECEMBER CLOSURES
DECEMBER CLOSURES
HUNSTRETE
DEC 22ND WITHYPOOL
DEC 1ST NEWBRIDGE
(WINTER LEAGUE)
DEC 8TH NEWBRIDGE
(OPEM MATCH)
DEC 8TH CANAL
(MEMORIAL MATCH)
DEC 27TH NEWBRIDGE
(XMAS MATCH)
Membership and day ticket purchases
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.