Arrived in pouring rain and left in 40mph+ winds. That's May 2021 for you. Stopped for a while to help the working group plant bull rushes and irises around adjacent Willows. 

Help required please: 

it was a quiet day by previous week's standards, the stop/start frosts probably having an effect. This said, for the solitary 4lb bream I caught, I had 4 good fish slip the hook after cracking 100mph bites, where the bobbin cracked into the rod. Each was on for between 10 seconds and a couple of minutes minutes before dropping off. I really don't know where I'm going wrong in getting the hooks to stick, because this echoes other recent trips. I do favour the method feeder as being a less than perfect caster, at least it guarantees there is some bait by the hook, but the boast that it is a self-hooking method I find to be nonsense! Maybe I should strike harder? (no pun intended). Thinking about it now, I tend to pick up the rod and wind into the fish hard rather than give it an initial big sharp tug, reluctant to pull it out of the fish's mouth. I've tried Drennan and Korda haired dedicated method hook links, and made my own with next to no hair, and even banded direct to the hook, but all have the same result. How do I get the hook to stick?? Two of the four fish today went deep into the lilies and dropped anchor. After a couple of minutes stalemate with me keeping steady tension on while the line sang, I moved along the bank to try and change the angle, but the hook pulled on both occasions. Perhaps I should just wait it out with the grounded fish (tench methinks) rather than try and move the issue? 

...or maybe I should be avoiding the method feeder altogether?

Thanks for any advice!