Sep 2011

Lake Record Piggy!! (It had to be done), 8th Sep

Gary Sawyer of Bivvy Power has won himself the newly invented 'Lake Record Piggy' award by netting the Lake record Pig at 12lb, the pig put up a brave fight (well in the net anyway) and was caught in the Gate corner at 10pm on Thursday the 8th of September, it was skillfully captured with no bait at all! Well done Gary.

I think this is one record which will be very long standing!!!

Sep 2011

The Funniest Thing I Ever Saw at our Lakes!, 1st Sep

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!!!

Sep 2011

Bivvy Power!!!, 1st Sep

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’.

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!