Good Evening.
I have been confined to the bivvy today, in between running around like a headless chicken securing my bivvies to the ground. The wind is ridiculously strong, fairly cold, and started this morning and has built up throughout the day. I now have a length of rope over my huge two-man bivvy to hold it down and various long banksticks are being used as substitute pegs. I have often wondered why bivvy manufacturers don’t provide decent pegs with bivvies for exactly this kind of situation – six-inch pegs just don’t do the job in a gale! I have suggested to Trakker that they produce a set of pegs that will meet such situations. A pack that contains a few 8′s a couple of 10′s and a few 12 inch beauties would provide more purchase when the going gets tough. I need them now Trakker!!
Fortunately my additional pegging and strapping down seems to have done the job and I think we will be okay. One of the anglers fishing to my right in the woods actually had his bivvy ripped from the ground, so as you can see I am not making up the situation! I nearly lost my overwrap earlier and that is why the rope is now being used. One good thing out of all of this is it might stir the lake up and get the fish moving and feeding a little. I am still blanking, but at the moment that is the least of my worries – staying alive will be my main concern for the next twelve hours. The white horses are travelling across the lake with such speed that if I did have a run I would be able to do very little about it anyway and I certainly would not go out in the boat! I was going to redo my rods this morning but that was obviously out of the question and protecting myself and the dogs is now my main concern! I guess a tree is our biggest danger and there are a couple behind the bivvies, but the wind is at least blowing them away from us!!!
I will hopefully be back tomorrow at some point.
Cheers
Jake and the twitchy dogs!
