I’ve had a hectic few weeks and have been on an amazing run, notching up three successive individual winter league wins for my team Preston Innovations Delcac - and the Sonubaits range of hookabits and groundbaits have played a vital role!

The first win came at Frant Lakes when I caught 61lb to win, with ten carp falling to sweetcorn and caster, fished down the margin, with those carp all coming in a frantic last hour-and-a-quarter.
The penultimate round of the Kent Division of the Angling Times Team Championship was staged at Hartleylands, a complex of small ponds.
I drew on the Reservoir Lake, where the depth runs to 20 feet. It is full of carp and I fished a groundbait feeder that was packed with soaked Sonubaits Fin Perfect micros and 4mm and 6mm feed pellets.
I used a banded 8mm hard pellet on the hook, hair-rigged, using a Korum S3 size 16, tied to 0.17mm Preston Powerline. I chose the S3 hook because the carp fight hard and I wanted the peace of mind that the hook would go the distance, having to pull the fish up through 15 feet of water.
I also caught eight carp on a big pellet waggler, with a hair-rigged 8mm pellet on the hook, fished seven feet deep. I fed the pellet waggler line with loosefed 8mm Fin Perfect feed pellets.
I caught a total of 24 carp for a weight of 115lb and outright victory.
So going into the sixth and final round of the competition, at Monk Lakes, I was thinking that two wins in a row was very good going and that I couldn’t possibly win another one!
But when I arrived at the venue, I was greeted by team captain Paul Hamlyn, who informed me: “Geoff, you can win the match today, you’ve drawn peg 56 on Lake 2.”
It is a noted end peg and I kicked off on a groundbait feeder but after an hour-and-a-half I was having a nightmare with line bites, foul-hooked fish and losing hook-lengths by becoming snagged on the bottom.
The fish were attacking the feeder as it dropped through the water, so I knew drastic action was called for.
For starters I bit the hook-length down to six inches and threaded it through the feeder before filling the feeder with groundbait. I then pulled the hook back up, so that the two dead red maggots dangled an inch or two below the feeder.
This helped and I started to catch a few, but on the two-hour mark I knew that I needed to gamble, so I wound in, bit the feeder off, threaded on the new small, inline Preston Method feeder, got the small Preston Method Mould out of my bag, loaded it with a mixture of my Sonubaits S Pellet and Sonubaits Match Method mix groundbait containing Sonubaits 2mm micros, went out with double dead red maggot hidden in the Method ball, put the rod down and round it went – fish on!
From there I had a delightful three hours, with just the odd quiet spell. And I ended up winning once again with140lb of carp between 1lb 8oz and 4lb.
That marvellous run of form helped me to the individual team angler award for Preston Innovations Delcac and it boosted my points haul in the Kamasan Matchman of the Year standings. I’m now in second place on 29 points, eight points adrift of Jamie Hughes .
Importantly, Preston Innovations Delcac have an Angling Times Winter League semi-final to look forward to at Monk Lakes in March, and I will be getting a few matches under my belt on there in the next few weeks leading up to the big match.