Well, after my matches not going to plan with me getting 2nd's and one 3rd and the carp not playing ball, i decided to go to my local in Sandbach, went with my niebourgh across the road, i bought a pint of maggots and a pot of worms and we set off, i know the lake well because last year i had a very successful match series finishing 2nd overall on the league table getting a £40 voucher for a local tackle shop which i was more than happy with.
Arrived at 10am and i picked a peg close to the car park and my niebourgh was next to me, the idea today was a confidence booster after fishing alot of matches, so i mixed up a bag of summer groundbait which is full of an aniseed smell very strong , i cupped in 3 balls at 5 meters and fished chopped worm over the top and i had activity straight away, a nice 1lb Tench rolled into the net and i went straight back over and the float bobbed and then buried and a nice skimmer bream was in the landing net, after continuing all morning over the groundbait i set up another rig to the lillies on my left about 4 meters out and chopped up some corn and worm and cupped it in, and fished over it, with corn and it wasn't long before the elastic was out and a nice healthy 6lb 2oz common was in the landing net, the rule here is no carp in keep nets except crucian carp, so away it went, i chopped and changed between worn and corn and i had 4 carp in the space of 2 hours.
So i fished 2 foot from the bank for the rest of the day, on maggot and feeding the groundbait and i was bagging on the small roach a few bigger ones thrown in, and then i hit a shoal of bream nice bream to about 1lb all on maggot on a 20's hook. i had 10 crucian carp in the time i was fishing in front of me, and with only 1 hour to go before i was going to pack up it went dead so i through in more maggots and then the float buried i struke and i was into a bigger fish i didnt know what it was but being on 2lb line and 5-8 dual core elastic i wasn't going to find out SNAP 
it snapped me by the connecter on my pole so i lost all my rig, gutted with the loss i stayed on for another hour and had a few more crucians and rudd, my neibourgh next to me had 10 carp and 4 tench in the day on mussel, fishing in front of him.
My swim in front of me...
I wieghed my keepnet and it tipped the scales to 6lb dead of bits so a good day had by all the only let down was the weather heavy rain all day, but didnt ruin the fishing.
Keepnet..
Regards
Michael