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The Power Pack

Ben Young and Gary Sawyer of Bivvy Power are here for the week at La Gléhias and they’ve brought with them their ‘Bivvy Power’ pack and ‘Remote Hit and Run Lighting System’.

Unplanned shot! In this photo, Gary had a big knock on his Catfish rod so they immediately stopped filming a promo video to be ready to strike, as you can see there is no need for headlamps in the pitch black of night!

The ‘Remote Lighting System’ not only allows you to illuminate your bivvy, but the area outside it too! – And all from a remote control fob which you can attach to a necklace and wear to bed! So, in that moment of urgency, when you are awoken in the dark by a screaming run, you can illuminate the situation immediately and see exactly what you are doing. The interior lighting is so good you could even tie rigs in your bivvy in the middle of the night without a struggle!

The power pack is much smaller and lighter than I had imagined and is incredibly long lasting; it will power a portable DVD player for up to 10 hours of film play or run your lighting for over 50 hours of continuous use, not to mention you can use it to charge your phone, PSP, MP3 players etc. in fact anything you can run in your car on the 12 volt car socket, you can run on ‘Bivvy Power’!!

The system is seriously impressive! So easy to set up, robust and weather proof!! And after seeing the set up in the flesh, I know that once you’ve tried it, this is one product that you won’t want to be bankside without!

In fact we are so impressed with it, we have invested in five Bivvy Power packs and remote Lighting Systems to hire out here at La Gléhias for only 20€ per week!

This is without doubt the funniest thing I’ve ever seen at Glehias; Ben Young and Gary Sawyer of ‘Bivvy Power’ are fishing here this week at La Gléhias with Gary’s mum and dad Al and Lynn.

On Thursday evening I went down to the Lakes for a chat with Ben and Gary, about an hour later it was just getting dark when we saw what looked like a large white cat come in through the fishery gate and run along the dam wall bank which was about 80 meters from us. Only when we stopped talking did we realise the large white cat was in fact pink and making a snorting noise!
I immediately ran to the dam wall to investigate further and the baby pig turned and ran at me, at this point instinct cut in and I ran away from it wailing like a girl while Ben and Gary laughed rather a lot!

It was getting darker and darker as we planned a way to catch it and by now it had run to the Gorse bank on the far side of the lake. We had decided to catch it in a landing net, so I went the long way round the lake and scared it back towards Gary who was hiding in a bush near the gate with landing net to hand, as the piglet ran into the darkness towards the gate all I heard was Gary shout “PIGGY” at the top of his voice as he leapt out of the bush and snagged it in his landing net. First pig ever netted on our fishery!!!

We managed to get the screaming maniac struggling piglet into an empty dustbin without harming it, put the dustbin in the back of the Land Rover and drove it back to the house and let it go in the goose house for the night. We gave it a while to calm down and then took it some water and cooked maize to see it through to the morning, within ten minutes it was munching through the maize and was completely mellow.

Funny thing, I only said to Al and Lynn two days earlier that I would love to have a pet pig.

Unbelievable!!!

30lb+ common for Steve

The Mead Party from the Basingstoke area have enjoyed some fabulous fishing here at La Gléhias over the last week; the four anglers managed to bank a staggering 42 Carp up to 36lb plus two Catfish to around 13lb.

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Jack Mead (16), who fished days only, went home a happy chappy with a new PB of a 22lb Mirror and caught his first Grassie too. Jack’s dad, Phil, managed to hook into one of the newly stocked smaller cats and also put a couple of 28’s in the net, despite only fishing four nights and the fish giving him a bit of a hard time of it as they didn’t seem to want to feed in the deep.

The Carp had threatened to spawn a couple of weeks ago when around 10-15 fish started to thrash around in the margins; with the temperatures unseasonably high for April, the water seemed to get a bit too hot to sustain the annual orgy and the fish’s amour quickly diminished. However, not all the carp got the memo and hung about in the reeded shallows waiting for things to take off again until a much needed torrential downpour stirred them all up into a feeding frenzy.
Having drawn lots at the beginning of the week, Trevor Bulpitt had first pick as to where to pitch his bivvy and decided on midway up Willow Walk. With Phil and Jack in the deep, Steve Hampton took the shallows and he and Trevor really struck gold with most takes coming from that end of the lake.

Trevor with a fine 28.12

The anglers only fished 2 rods each for the most part of their stay so as to keep the angling pressure low and keep the fish on the feed. Steve also commented “at times, it would have been difficult to get a third rod out there!” – I know he was finding it difficult to catch some ‘zzzzz’s between fish!

Well done Lads, Lee

Terry Banyard of the Mackinlay Party landed a 52lb catfish at 4pm on Sunday the 22nd of August at Glehias and has earned himself the “OAP’s Lake Record Catfish” award.

The Maniac Moggie came from under the big overhanging Willow on the Gorse bank and was taken on a half Chilli Chocolate boilie combined with a half Liver B8 Boilie.

In a difficult weeks fishing due to the weather being very up and down, the other lads in the party have enjoyed seeing several other carp and cats on the bank to around 30lb.

Well done Terry!