I’ve won more matches than I care to remember using sweetcorn as the hook-bait and in winter there are few, if any, better baits where carp are concerned.

The new Sonu Super Scent corn - available at 99p per tin and in Scopex, Tutti-Frutti, Strawberry and Pineapple flavours - is a bait I’ve been enjoying great success with since its launch onto the market last summer, but there are a couple of tricks I want to pass on, which, hopefully, will see you catching a few extra fish!
Firstly, it may come as a surprise to some blog readers, but I catch a lot of fish by simply squeezing the kernel - the bit inside the sweet corn - out, and then fishing with just the skin on the hook.
Why? Because removing the kernel makes the bait much lighter and it falls at the same speed as a loosefed grain, ie, one without a heavy piece of metal - the hook - inside it.
I am a great believer that fish watch everything, baitwise, from the moment it hits the surface until it settles on the bottom.
Fishing just the skin fools a lot of wary fish.
Another idea worth trying is taking a tin of Sonu Super Scent corn, opening it, transferring the corn into a freezer bag and putting it into the deep freeze. I like to remove the frozen corn from the freezer the night before a match and once it has fully thawed the result is super soft corn, with a great texture for hooking.
Give these top tips a try - you will notice the difference in your results immediately.