I've been winning plenty of matches in the past few weeks with a rig that incorporates a red 6mm Sonu Competition Feed Pellet hair-rigged - and the bites are out of this world!

Let me explain. The rig is one that I came up with for catching crafty carp at Woodlands View, and I used it recently on a Fish-O-Mania qualifier to finish third on the match with 93lb of carp. It is a pole method that has won me seven matches at the Worcestershire venue in the past few weeks, and it couldn't be simpler.
The pole is elasticated with a Preston 11H elastic, with a puller kit. Main line is 0.15 Power Line, and the hook-length is 0.13 Power Line.
The float is a Preston 4 x 10 Chianti model, and the rig is set to fish in six feet of water. Now some anglers might think the float is too light for this sort of depth, but read on.
Basically, it is a rig where all the float's shotting capacity is placed on the line 18 inches underneath the float, so in essence you have a rig with a four-and-a-half-foot-long 'tail' from the shot to the hook.
This allows you to fish for carp which are now swimming at all depths in the summer months.
The 6mm Competition Feed Pellet, a red one for this type of fishing, is banded and hair-rigged via a Preston PR36 hook. The rig is flicked in, as you would if fishing for roach, and the line from pole tip to float is held tight, as the 'tail' drops through the water very temptingly.
You don't strike with this method. When the bite comes the first you know about it is seeing the elastic pulled out by the hooked fish.
Feeding is a doddle. I just ping out four of the 6mm Competition Feed pellets with a catapult, about once a minute. I just flick the rig over after feeding, and the pellet attached to the hair-rig drops through the water with the loose-fed ones, and I try to 'ambush' a passing carp!
Give it a try now that the secret's out of the bag. The only other person I've told about this is my mate and he has been doing well on matches elsewhere with it, so we know it is a proven winner.
Just quickly, too, you'll notice that the Sonu Competitiion feed pellets are a mix of brown and red pellets. I use the red pellets for fishing on the drop or shallow, because fish seem to see their darker silhouette better from below. And if I am fishing on the bottom I choose a brown pellet, as it actually stands out from the mud.