I've just had a successful weekend with a 135lb match win and a third overall the next day with 69lb of carp - and my success has in part been due to Sonu Fin Perfect Feed Pellets and Sonu Hemp 'N' Tigers mix.

On the Saturday I fished a match at the Weston Lawns fishery near Bedworth in Warwickshire. It was the first time I had seen the venue and I drew a peg where I could cast 20 yards to the point of an island.

I used a Preston Innovations Dutch Master 11ft 8'in rod with a Preston PXR 3000 reel, loaded with 5lb Korum mono. At the business end I used a small, 20 gramme Preston Pellet Feeder, with a hair-rigged 6mm or 8mm Sonu S Pellet soft hook pellet.

The 2mm Sonu Fin Perfect Feed Pellets are spot-on for the pellet feeder. You want them to be really soft on the iside but just a touch dry on the outside. You need to really compress them into the feeder with all the strength in your thumb and forefinger but once the feeder hits bottom they explode out.
I found that as long as I cast tight to the island, I'd get a bite every cast and I ran out the winner with 135lb of fighting-fit carp.

On the Sunday I was at Makins and finished third in the match with 69lb 4oz when I should have won it, but for the fact I used old pole rigs and got smashed twice.

I don't carry many rigs and the fact that I don't forces me to make up new rigs on the bank.

This, I believe, enables you to catch more fish because tou are using fresh line, new knots, and the rigs are stronger and able to withstand more punishment when hauling big weights on commercials.

I was kicking myself after the match for not being prepared properly, but I was rushing to be ready and for once did not make up a new rig. I'll learn from that!

I fed hemp at Makins which came from a tin of Sonu's Hemp 'N' Tigers mix. I discard the tiger nuts but what I have discovered is that because the hemp and the tigers are cooked together in the tin, the sweet taste of the tiger nuts really soaks into the hemp and the hemp smells so sweet that you could almost eat it!

And, because it smells slightly different, it is something the carp have not encountered before, so I think it is definitely an edge that is worth a few extra fish each match.