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Nice result! This is pretty much always my tactic. Fish for a bite at a time. I use a PVA bag on the hook with a few crushed boilies, some stick mix and some pellets. I'll occasionally throw in a couple of handfuls of bolies over the top, but mostly I don't.
In fairness though filling a swim in with bait can work on occasions. Particularly if there aren't many features to cast at, the pile of bait effectively becoming the feature.
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Kersplash of spod for 1hr 5mins.
I hate people using Spombs/Spods. The young guy next to me the other week (he blanked, as did everyone else, I caught) was Spombing for his life. It's an 11 acre lake!
Carp really don't respond well to noise and disturbance. I don't even let my rig and terminal tackle break the water surface on the retrieve...
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ModernCarpAngler came out to play last Thursday. I didn't hear him arrive on a point swim 250 yards from me, but I sure as hell heard him set up.
Repeated thwack of NashLumphammer: banksticks in.
Ditto: 2 man marquee erected.
Fadosh of marker float for 30mins.
Kersplash of spod for 1hr 5mins.
17 casts (I counted) to get 3 rods out. Clearly either using 5oz leads, or grenades.
I noticed the water level rise with the amount of bait that went in. If the guy had bombarded Mariupol the siege would have been over in a day.
On Friday he came round to chat, admitting to blanking and probably leaving his lines out.
I wasn't about to tell him that I had 5 carp overnight, biggest 24.8. My approach? 150 baits pinged to 45 yards with a catapult, 3 casts, 30 bait top up for each fish caught.
I might fish his swim tomorrow, the ModernCarp should have recovered from concussion and returned by then.
No pictures, sorry, I don't retain fish caught at night for photos.