How to defeat the weed in any lake with CC Moore Weedbeater Mix

The fall season is upon us and like most lakes one of the major obstacles to face is still the amount of weed present in the lake. As the outdoor temperatures and surface temperatures decrease the underwater temperature still remains warm enough for the weed to continue growing. When the water cools it becomes much more clearer and the sunlight will penetrate through easier to promote weed growth. So what can we do as an angler to tackle this major problem. In the latest NACA which is the Carp Anglers Group's quarterly magazine that they put out I wrote a part 1 to this on how to destroy weed. If you plan to fish a spot a lot you can remove weed over a course of a few days. You can find that article written here. NACA   This method is geared towards the ability to visit a lake periodically to bait up and the fish will really root through and uproot the weeds in a particular spot for you. This will create clear spot that makes fishing a ton easier.

So what about the places that we do not have the ability to prebait or visit regular? Weed can grow back in a matter of weeks and make it difficult all over again. CC Moore has come up with a Stick/Bag Mix that helps to conquer this problem and it is called the weedbeater mix. It comes in all the boilie varieties so you can match it up with their boilie range or you can mix and match mixes and be creative. Big Carp Tackle sells the weedbeater mix and you can find it here. CC Moore Weedbeater Mix  It has been so successful that at the time of this article only the Odyssey Mix is left but David will be stocking more in the very near future.  How this works is you you determine what type of weed you have on the bottom by casting out a lead and reeling it in. If you have weed over a few feet high then this mix will not work the greatest but if you have your typical blanket weed or silt that is under a foot and a half high then this is the mix for you. When you reel in your lead determine the height of the weed. Next step will be to make your hook length around 6 inches longer than the weeds height. You then either make a pva bag or a pva stick and thread it onto your hook length and pierce the hook into the stick or the bag which ever you decided to use. The bag will protect the hook from the weeds and will prevent tangling. Finally choose a hookbait. I usually try to use the weedbeater mix  with the matching hookbait. You can mix and match like I mentioned above to give yourself a unique blend of flavors and attractors though.  If you use a standard bottom bait or a pop up is up to you but I like using the bottom baits with this.

Ok so you made up your mix which I will say you can add some liquid attractors to but remember we want this mix to remain light and fluffy. Before you even go to cast I like to poke a lot of holes into the pva bag that way any trapped air will escape and the water will penetrate and break the bag faster. The next thing to do is cast to your desired location. When you go to cast make sure you feather down the lead and this will dive into the weeds.  The mix does all the work for you because as the pva melts it will gently lay itself on top of the weed. The mix is extremely light so even after the pva is all disolved the mix will stay on top of the weed allowing the fish to find your bait. Also as you can see in my video below the mix will rise and fall over and over again attracting fish down to your mix. Once the carp start to find the mix you will see a great big cloud form from the mix. This surely attracts many more carp into the area resulting in some fast pace action. When I began using this mix I went from hooks covred in weed to weed free hooks. My last session I had 5 fish in around 3-4 hours as a result of being able to fish on top of the weed properly without my rig and hook getting buried rendering it useless.

On my last trip out I was really amazed at how well this had worked on a spot that is always weed choked. It seemed like fish after fish had been coming out and no signs of tangled weed on the rig itself but only around the lead which was buried into the weed. This definitely gave me an edge with overcoming this weed problem. Another great thing is the fact that every lake we travel to has weed in it. Some lakes are kinder than others on the amount of weed but with this you always have a plan of action in getting results. The CC Moore Weedbeater mix is extremely easy to use lasts a good amount of time considering you only use a bag full here and there. This is a great way to save some cash as well since you are not chumming it and chumming it over and over. A good typical night for me and I may use around 8-10 pva bags of this mix so you can imagine how long it will last for.

Click on the video below to play the video about the CC Moore Weedbeater mix and it also shows how it looks breaking down underwater in my fish tank.