I’ve recently enjoyed a great match win on a new venue – and I did it with the help of Sonubaits Hemp and Hali Crush groundbait and Sonu Drilled Boilies.

The match was held at Dartford Angling Club’s own complex of four lakes, which have a healthy head of skimmers and roach, as well as carp.
I drew a good peg with noted bream form, which I fancied. The average depth was around six feet and on a 40-yard chuck with the feeder I had a skimmer a cast on hair-rigged corn for the first three hours.
It was a six-hour match and the way it was going, I figured if I kept catching the stamp I was on, I might end up with 60 to 70lb.
But almost magically, the bites started coming from bream averaging anything between 2lb and 4lb. I had been fishing with a single grain of sweetcorn, hair-rigged on a size 16 PR36 hook.
Occasional changes to a Sonubaits white drilled boilie in 6mm size kept the fish coming and accounted for some of the bigger slabs and I went on to finish with a net weighing 115lb.
The victory brought me a handsome £600 pay-out from the 72 anglers present, and it was a very satisfying day’s sport.
All in all I used a bag of Hemp and Hali Crush, five 300 gram tins of corn and about two pints of soaked 4 mm Sonu Fin Perfect feed pellets.
A lot of anglers tend to back off and feed less, once they start catching bream, and this is when their weights dwindle. I find it pays to be positive and to keep feed going in. Bream can shift a lot of food, so you need to bear this in mind when they start feeding in your swim.
For those interested, the gear I used that day included a Preston Dutch Master 12ft 8” feeder rod, a PXR Preston reel loaded with 6lb Preston Direct Mono and a 0.15mm Preston Power Line hooklength.
The bites were very easy to read because the Direct Mono is like a cross between braid and nylon, so it signals bites very positively.