I'd like to talk this month about fishing corn in the winter months - the best time of year for it. And you have plenty of choice with Sonu's Superscent range.

There are some days when you don't need to feed anything at all, when fishing the bomb and corn in the winter months. These tend to be days when you have drawn on some fish, so what's the point giving them a choice of food when they are in front of you?
But more typically, you will draw a peg that you need to attract carp into. On commercial lakes, the first thing carp do when they sense anglers in their midst is start swimming as far away as they can from the commotion.
Carp are far more sensitive to noise and vibration than we think, and when 15 to 20 anglers start moving on to a lake, wearing heavy moon boots, and pushing barrows laden with tackle, the carp soon start to make themselves scarce.
That being the case, it is down to the angler to attract fish to have a feed, and to this end I think the best ploy is to adopt a little and often policy, even on the coldest winter days.
By little and often, I am talking about catapulting three or four grains of corn into the peg once every four or five minutes. I like to feed the corn at a range of around 20 metres, and then cast my bomb just beyond this line, say on about 22 metres.
Why? Well, as I stated, carp head away from noise, and often, that means out into the middle of a lake. As the day goes on and they sense food in the water, they are swimming towards you from the centre of the lake, and I want my hook bait to be the first piece of food they come across as they head towards the grains I have been catapulting in.
It is not the easiest bait to introduce into a peg, because corn is not as aerodynamic as other man-made baits like pellets.
But I use a Preston catapult with a hard blue plastic cup and this seems to group grains together fairly well.
I use the new 12 foot Preston Competition feeder rod because it has a lovely through action which feeds through to the butt, and I use a Preston PXR 3000 reel loaded with 4lb line, and the hook-length is usually 18 inches to two feet long, attached via a loop to a snap swivel, to which the bomb is also attached.
Patience is the name of winter carp fishing with corn. You may go two hours, even three hours without a bite, but keep a few grains going in and you may catch eight or nine fish in the last two hours of the competition, and if you do, you will be looking at winning or framing.
This happened to me last week when I fished a match.
Two hours in, I was biteless. Then the tip went round and carp number one came to the net. Then a carp would be hooked every 20 minutes and I caught another eight to win the match, just feeding three or four grains of corn every five minutes.
Corn is good for this style of fishing until April, when pellets and then meat start to enter the fishing equation.
But for now, while it is really cold and the water is clear, a visible bait like corn really takes some beating.