CC Moore Pacific Tuna

CC Moore have been a fixture of UK carp bait for a long time, and Pacific Tuna sits among their most enduring releases, launched back in 2014 after what the brand describes as a three-year product development programme. That's a serious amount of time to spend perfecting a single bait, and it's reflected in how specifically engineered Pacific Tuna is around a particular problem: keeping a boilie working hard across every season, including the cold water months when many baits lose their effectiveness.

The core idea behind Pacific Tuna is what CC Moore describe as a 'red fishmeal' profile, built from soluble fish, milk and vegetable proteins combined with natural appetite stimulants. Rather than relying on a single dominant ingredient, the bait draws on Haiths Robin Red, a long-trusted name in carp bait additives, alongside tuna, shellfish and vegetable extracts, creating a layered savoury, salty flavour and aroma profile rather than a one-note flavour. The result is a deep red boilie with what CC Moore call a deep, salty, marine taste and a distinctive meaty-fish aroma, designed to stimulate a strong and prolonged feeding response.

What's particularly notable about Pacific Tuna is the emphasis CC Moore place on its low oil content. Oil-rich boilies can be excellent attractors in warm water, but oil doesn't disperse as readily when temperatures drop, which can leave a bait performing noticeably worse through autumn and winter. By deliberately keeping oil content low and instead focusing on high solubility and digestibility, CC Moore have built a bait that's specifically designed to keep leaking attraction effectively even in cold water conditions, which is central to their claim that it's a genuine year-round big fish bait rather than one that only shines for half the season.

That solubility is paired with an open texture, which CC Moore say is built for rapid diffusion and maximum attractor leakage. In practical terms, that means the bait should start working quickly once it's in the water, building a scent and flavour trail in the swim faster than a denser, slower-releasing boilie would. For short sessions where you don't have the luxury of pre-baiting for days in advance, that rapid release matters; equally, on longer campaigns, a bait that keeps leaking steadily rather than going inert after the first hour or two gives you sustained drawing power over a longer sit.

CC Moore are also upfront about how the bait's appearance might vary. Because Pacific Tuna doesn't contain synthetic dyes, relying instead on the natural colour of its ingredients, different batches can show some variation in shade. That's worth knowing before you buy, particularly if you're the kind of angler who likes visual consistency bag to bag, since it's a genuine characteristic of the formulation rather than a quality control issue.

In terms of practical options, Pacific Tuna is sold as Freezer Baits or Shelf Life Baits, which share the same core recipe but differ in one key respect: Shelf Life versions replace 20% of the liquid egg used in the Freezer Bait mix with a high-energy mould inhibitor, allowing them to be stored without freezing. That's a meaningful choice to make before buying, since Freezer Baits need to be kept frozen, and should be air-dried if left out of the freezer for more than 48 hours, while Shelf Life baits are simply stored cool, dry and out of direct sunlight. Anglers without a chest freezer dedicated to bait storage will likely find the Shelf Life option the more practical choice.

The range spans four sizes, from 10mm right up to 24mm, letting you match hookbait and feed size to the venue and the fish you're targeting, whether that's smaller baits for pressured commercial waters or bigger 24mm offerings aimed specifically at larger, selective carp on more specialist big-fish waters. Bag sizes run from 1kg through to 5kg and 10kg, which covers everything from a single overnight session through to a proper multi-day baiting campaign without needing to buy multiple smaller bags.

CC Moore lean heavily on Pacific Tuna's track record as part of its appeal, pointing to consistent results from UK and European anglers in the years since its launch as evidence that it performs reliably across a genuinely wide range of venues and conditions. Whether that's fishing a water for the first time, running a long-term campaign, competing against other baits being used on the same lake, or targeting wary, low-stocked waters where fish have seen it all before, the brand's positioning is that Pacific Tuna gives anglers genuine confidence rather than being a one-trick summer bait.

For anglers specifically hunting bigger, more selective carp across the full UK season, or those who fish venues where cold water performance genuinely separates the baits that work from the ones that don't, Pacific Tuna is a boilie worth serious consideration. Its combination of a proven, multi-year track record, a deliberately engineered low-oil, high-solubility formula, and a wide spread of sizes and bag options makes it a flexible choice that should suit a broad range of UK carp fishing situations, not just a narrow niche.