Ground bait

[chahou]

Hi, I am looking for some advice please. This weekend I fished at Albert Falls dam for carp off a boat.
There were plenty of carp in the shallow water, spawning I presume. I fed in 1.8m depth with 1/2 bees block and a 1/2 bucket of cooked meilies that had gone sour. The next day I fished on my spot but got no bite even though there were many carp rising on my ground bait bed. Another boat anchored about 100m away was klapping the carp. They were using one small floatie per hook with baby shoe trace. I tried floaties, meilies, pap dough, red worm but nothing. I used baby shoe and rietflei traces.
What do you think was wrong?
I look forward to hearing from you guys.

 

[Stinker]

I am not too clued up on carp fishing, but maybe it had to do with the flavour of their baits.

Do you know what flavour floaties they were using?

Could it maybe be that they were anchored 'down current' from you, so all the flavour/smells drifted down toward them.
Like i said, i'm not very clued up regarding carp fishing. Hopefully someone can be more helpful like MadCarper on this site

 

[JustPlainSHARK]

I wouldnt follow the sour maize feed bed, although some people did have success on it. I would more likely/always opt for the fresh maize approach. And depending on how big the half a bucket was, the fish might have devoured all the feed, before you started fishing the spot. My 2c

 

[chahou]

Thanks Just plain Shark and Stinker.
There was not much wind and they were down wind from me. They say that they were using small stutterford floaties only which I did not have. I had stuttaford marsh mallows. I do not believe that in 7 hours of fishing I did not even get a pull and they landed 50kg of fish that the fish only want stuttaford floaties. There were fish on our spot.

Do tilapia take over a feed bed and keep the carp away?