I've just got back home after the Super League Final at Barston Lakes. My team, Dorking, won the competition for a seventh consecutive time and I was top individual on the Sunday. And I like to think it is in some part down to the thanks to the Sonubaits groundbaits I used.

I drew peg 13 on the Sunday and decided on a three-pronged approach - Method feeder, open-ended feeder, and pole.

My Method mix comprised a 70/30 split of Sonubaits Fin Perfect Mix 1 and Sonu P Mix, while on the open ender I chose neat Exploding Fishmeal Feeder. On the pole line I also used neat Exploding Fishmeal Feeder, and to cut a long story short, I ran out top weight with 39lb.

In the first hour and 40 minutes I concentrated on the Method feeder and snared a 10lb carp plus two skimmers and two F1s for a combined weight of around 14lb.
Then I switched to the open ender and caught seven more skimmers with worm hookbaits before coming in to my pole line at 13 metres where the depth was five feet.

Here I had two rigs set up - a 4 x 14 Preston PB8, with the shot strung out in the bottom half of the rig, and a Preston Classic 10, with a bulk of number eights and two number 9s as droppers. Main line on both rigs was 0.11mm Powerline to 0.09mm Powerline hooklengths, tied to size 18 PR32s.

You needed to fish quite fine for bites, but Powerline can handle bonus fish as long as you get the elastication right. At Barston I needed to catch whatever was swimming in front of me, and with hardly any carp being caught on the pole line I opted for grade 5 original Preston Slip elastic. I kept the line from pole tip to float down to around two feet, as the lake was towing and you needed to drop the rig in, then follow the tow for a couple of feet. All the fish seemed to nail the bait as it settled up.

Feeding on the pole was simple enough. At the all-in I fed three balls of Exploding Fishmeal Feeder, laced with chopped worm and caster. While fishing out on the Method feeder and open end feeder, it was simply a  case of just topping up occasionally with a medium Cad pot of neat, chopped worm, to keep the pole peg primed for action.

If the skimmers disappeared, the plan was to feed a small ball of groundbait to bring them back, but you had to go easy as too much feed could kill it stone dead. The best bait on the pole was two small red worms or bits of dendrabena. It's a fact of life that fish such as these Barston skimmers love fishmeal, and with P Mix, Exploding Fishmeal Feeder and other goodies in the range, Sonubaits have got it all covered.