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In reply to Post #1
One water I fish occasionally has crushed stone/concrete on the pegs and I use screw in pegs and a battery drill. It’s not exactly stealthy but better than banging pegs in for half an hout
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In reply to Post #6
8mm masonry drill bit and an old cordless DeWalt drill.
Not stealthy, but if you're not using hammer mode it should be more stealthy (less vibration) than getting Timmy Mallet out.
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In reply to Post #4
It’ll stop the scumbags who decide to stroll in under the darkness to pinch your gear lol 
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You can get sand bags that sit around the poles for awnings and gazebos. It’s going to add a bit of weight to your barrow but they should do the job.
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In reply to Post #7
problem is there's nothing for them to push into other than stones. Not sure what will grip in there.
The buckets to fill with water is a decent idea though. Sit them on top of the pegs pushed down.
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In reply to Post #1
Jag bivvy pegs or ask Keith at defiant to make you some
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Same happened on 2 of my ponds I fish, on one of them, they used concrete with about 2 - 4" of soil on top as they thought it would be a good idea, you could only get the back pegs in and unless you used a pod, your bank sticks would be all "wobbly"
Second pond, they filled them in with rubble from a demolition site and one again, a bit of soil over the top as that also was a good idea they thought. I used take a spade and dig down, sometimes I would move paving slabs and bricks and backfill with soil. Sometimes it would take me two hours just to get my bivvy pegged down and bank sticks in and it used be annoying to get 5 of your sticks in, to find you could not get the sixth six into the ground so you would have to start again and move them.
As much as I hate the use of Mallets I just had to do what everybody else was having to do, I just started to take my "Lump Hammer" and just one or two very hard wallops would get the pegs in rather than a rubber mallet and lots of wallops. Trouble was, sometimes I could not get the odd peg out of the ground very easily as I had driven them into a brick.
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In reply to Post #1
Depends on which shelter you have as some bivvys like my old m3 needed more pegging out around the back - but Tempest (or similar) shelters should be fine.
Using the groundsheet with hooks and having all your gear/bedchair etc should give you *some* stability but I wouldn't want to rely on it in a strong wind, especially open front and into the wind. Perhaps ground anchors and guy lines, or even take a stack of large buckets and fill with lake water and guy lines to them around the outside of your bivvy - probably would be more solid than pegs 
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In reply to Post #3
Definitely a trip hazard there. Is there gravel, rocks or logs to weight the edges down ? I've done that in the past when I've forgotten my pegs.*
*On previous occasions I've also forgotten my bed chair, my brolly and one eventful time halfway down the M4 to Reading, my rods.
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In reply to Post #2
It should be, I did think about screwing a rope into the sleepers on the edge of the swims.
Definitely an option.
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In reply to Post #1
Is it possible to attach guy ropes to the poles on the bivvy and extend them far enough to peg into the ground?
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My syndicate has built up the level of swims due to regular flooding, it's great as now fishable in Jan when it has been for years. Downside is there's a foot of stone in some places so bivvy pegs are useless.
Any suggestions on how to still peg a bivvy down? I've pushed the bivvy right to the back so back pegs find some ground to go into, but front and sides end up just flapping around if any wind.
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