In Pursuit of the Largest

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It appeared that the baits in the deeper water were producing slightly bigger fish, coincidence ?? I didn’t think so, and started to move the hookbaits away from the beds of baits into the deeper water. In the first four nights, I had 39 fish to 40.5 lbs, this being a Common and a personal best Common to boot !! Strangely, I had a 34lb Mirror and the very next day had the same fish from exactly the same spot !!! The deeper water was consistently producing bigger fish. The challenge belongs to us all. Countering international terrorism requires effective multilateral responses”, she flagged. Outlining five suggestions to advance counter-terrorism efforts in Africa, Ms. Mohammed reminded that “ prevention remains our best response”. Noting “complex links between terrorism, patriarchy and gender-based violence”, she said counter-terrorism policies needed to be “strengthened by the meaningful participation and leadership of women and girls”.

For a holistic, comprehensive approach, the deputy UN chief cited the New Agenda for Peace – part of the Our Common Agenda report. Before I re-read the book I had an impression in my mind that the guest chapters were a bit weak and detracted from the rest of the book. However, on re-reading them I can safely say that they’re fine, although a couple are on the short side or perhaps not as well written as the rest of the book. I particularly enjoyed the chapters from Paul Forward and Lewis Read. I was gripped by Lewis’s story as his time to capture the biggie slowly ran out. Although, I’m sure I’m not spoiling the story but letting you know he triumphs just in time. The other lads had struggled, everyone putting it down to the weather basically, there had been an odd forty here and there and one fabulous Common of 57lbs to Rene Hawkins of Essex, fishing in an area of the lake known as ‘The Islands’. Well done mate, and another ‘Essex Man’ to boot, nuff said !!!

From the climate emergency to armed conflict and poverty and inequality to lawless cyberspace, and the uneven recovery from COVID-19, she also pointed out that terrorism is converging with other threats. After dropping four markers at varying depths and varying ranges, recording everything in the log, it was time to bang in a bit of bait. Bait was Mainline Grange Red, Maize and a Mainline Hemp Pellets, a very inviting combination. I did have 25 lbs of chopped tigers sent to Romania too, however they failed to get there for one reason or another. Make do with the Maize Chris, I had no other choice ! Undeterred, I put in 3 kilos of the above mix in around every marker to start with.

I was truly gripped by both Terry’s knowledge and passion for carp fishing and by the way he expressed his captures. I have now decided to add wanting to spend a days fishing with Terry Hearn, so I can witness the master in action, to my list of ambitions of playing for Preston North End (that’s well and truly gone), running the London Marathon and owning a house with a lake. In fact, spending a days fishing with Terry will probably be the easiest of the four to achieve, however hard it is!

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Myself and Joe Goldson from Liverpool teamed up together, and opted to fish an area in the main body of water to the left of the hotel known as the ‘Gypsy Village’. My thanks to a couple of the ‘regulars’ who had fished this area in the past, they offered some handy advice on features to look out for. From here we could cover a huge amount of water, with the plan being to move after three nights if we didn’t manage to get amongst some decent fish. We had a huge area of water in front of us, this had to be a good choice. Before I go into detail reviewing the book, I would just like to point out how remarkable Terry’s achievements are. Despite still being in his twenties, Terry has captured eight English carp over forty pounds, a truly amazing feat. I have never met Terry and can only dream of fishing the waters and catching the fish he does, but through his book I feel so much closer to fishing those waters and catching that elusive forty. Chairing the meeting with his country assuming the presidency of the Council for November, Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, attested to the importance of restoring effective State authority and promoting inclusive governance across the continent. He also urged the Council to support AU-led counter-terror operations, including with predictable funding.

The skyline beyond the northern suburbs of Mogadishu is seen through a bullet hole in the window of a hotel in Somalia. If well executed, transcending a traditional silo-specific approach to drive decarbonisation from an integrated perspective could help to amplify the scope of each individual measure, creating an ‘eco-system’ of mutually reinforcing climate policies. Nevertheless, it remains to be seen how effective this approach will be in practice, and there is certainly scope for the interdependencies of the policies to manifest in challenges and failures. The US, China, and other third countries have already signaled concerns about this proposal, and the EU will have to be careful to ensure compatibility with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, for example as regards free ETS allocations. Nevertheless, the FSR believes that CBAM is an important step in supporting the competitiveness of key EU sectors, vulnerable to carbon leakage. One legislative amendment that has been attracting considerable interest in recent months is the Renewable Energy Directive ( RED ). The RED sets a target for the level of renewable energy in the overall EU energy mix, as well as defining which energy sources can be considered ‘renewable’ and therefore contribute to the target. The previous RED set a target of 32% renewable energy by 2030, under the Fit for 55 amendments this share has increased to 40%.I’ve fished many of the biggest carp waters throughout Europe and the rest of the World, but Raduta really is something special. ‘The Jewel In The Crown’ ??, maybe, I doubt if there are many more waters out there with the kind of statistics that Lake Raduta can boast….

And being so influenced by Terry’s methods of concentrating on location and pinpoint bait placement I spent most of my next session up a tree doing my monkey impressions while observing the carp’s behaviour below. I even bagged a common using the Terry Hearn Stiff Rig but that’s another story and probably another review……… Making the decision of where we were going to fish the night before had been a difficult one. I had obviously done a lot of homework on the known areas, read, re-read and watched the video. OK, so you shouldn’t have pre conceived ideas, fair enough, but you have to start somewhere on 2500 acres.There are only a few rigs mentioned but as Terry only uses a few simple rigs then that is to be expected. Perhaps a little more detail wouldn’t go amiss and now Terry has developed his own range of accessories through the ESP range he might be in a better position to reveal all. Terry always seems to pin down his mainline out of harms way to prevent spooking carp. I know it’s obvious why but perhaps maybe he could have revealed why he is so insistent on the practice, has he seen just to many carp spooking? First job, after we’d been dropped off by boat at the swim, was to get out with the echo sounder and see what we had in front of us. With a mile of bank space for just Joe and I, there was a lot of rowing to be done !! I found a very sexy plateau, ranging in depth from 10 feet at it’s edge dropping sharply to 27 feet. Very carpy, just had to be the spot. Perhaps In Pursuit Of The Largest is more suited to the modern day carp angler, who is boilie, buzzer, bolt rig and bivvy oriented and who has a knowledge of the circuit waters, than to your Chris Yates type carp angler, but nevertheless the book is a fantastic read for all.