Basingstoke Canal Angling Association

Picture Book 2005/6

	Mick Fenton and daughter admiring a 10lb pike caught from Great Bottom Flash after it took a small perch they were reeling in. The pike was landed on a size 14 hook and a 6ft rod bought from Tesco’s. Let’s hope that’s hooked them for life.
BCAA Head Bailiff Jeff Bunch has been at it again. Pictured here on New years eve, he proudly displays an 18lb 2oz pike which he caught from Great Bottom Flash taken on popped up trout dead bait.
	BCAA Bailiff, Nick Warne, proudly displaying a 22lb Common Carp taken from Great Bottom Flash on 28^th August. Popped up corn fished with a method feeder was Nick’s successful method.
Former BCAA Match Secretary, Andre Grandjean, turned Specci-hunter with this 9lb 5oz Common Carp. Taken one evening at the end of July from behind the Waterwitch pub at Odiham. The carp fell for a soft halibut pellet presented on a size 16 to 0.16 Carptek line on the long pole.
	Paul ‘skimmer’ Merritt proudly showing a fabulous 4lb 9oz Crucian Carp caught on 23^rd July. Paul also added 3 good tench to record a personal best catch. Well done Paul! And thanks to your pal Barry Harcourt for the picture and story.
Tom Sayer does it again this time with a 14lb pike from Great Bottom Flash taken on deadbait on Christmas Eve. It looks like the same fish that Chris Bunch caught recently (see below).
	Another cracker from Great Bottom Flash. 13 year old Tom Sayer displays his first ever pike which went 13lb and was the best of a 4 fish haul at the start of his Christmas holidays.
BCAA Head Bailiff Jeff Bunch was upstaged by 19 year old son Chris Bunch when he caught this 14lb 8oz pike on his first ever pike fishing trip at Great Bottom Flash on 9^th January 2005. The pike was caught on a popped up trout deadbait.
	19 year old Dan Eaves with a fine 15lb 10oz pike caught from Great Bottom Flash.
BCAA Bailiff Nick Warne proudly displays a fine netful of tench taken on red maggot from Great Bottom Flash on New Years Eve 2004
	BCAA Head Bailiff Jeff Bunch, holds a fine 12lb pike he caught from Great Bottom Flash on New Years Eve 2004. He also had another pike of 9lb to go with this beauty.