Thread: Do you jug fish?

I love jug fishing. We use swim noodles. A lot of times we toss them out at dark and check them 1 or 2 times a night and pick them up the next morning. Jug lakes mostly if are in a river with current then we don't leave them for very long

Originally Posted by ShilohRed

Heres my jugs, they have a spool for adjusting the length of line out and to also store the line on. Also built in receiver hole for a 8" glow stick that allows you to see them at night easy.
Pete

Those are some nice looking jugs, wanna sell any of them?

Anyone use 3 Liter Soda bottles with Glowsticks in them and the line tied to the neck of the bottle? It saves Alot of spotlight run time. Those are some sweet jugs, ill leave it to the pros.

I jug fish quite frequently. I use pool noodles with 3/4 inc pvc. I don't put weights in mine because on my home lake I use 4 inch shiners for bait. The lake is only 12 miles from home so I put the noodles out in the evening and go back and check them in the morning. I have caught several large crappie and some flatheads on them using large shiners for bait. I only make my lines about as long as my arm because the lake has so many stumps that I often have to reach down and untangle fish or pull the hook from a stump.

We here on highrock lake NC use 2 liter bottles and clear milk jugs we have used glow sticks but is a costly form of it when you have 15+ jugs hook depth 3-5 feet depending on the depth of the shad schools at the time. we also spray paint half the jug orange or green. If you have shad in your lake i suggest cut shad for the best result most we have had is 67 cats and biggest is 43 pounds.

I'm ready to go this Spring. Camping, trolling, and some jug fishing with my boys!

Willie thats a plan for sure and end the day with a big ol campfire
my family and i started jugg"n last year we had a blast we started with 2 liter bottles but now have switched over to the swim noodles also we have been making them over the winter and ready to try them out this spring

Made up a dozen or so noodle jugs and used them for the second time this past May on Toledo Bend. Sure worked great and they definitely added some excitement to the trip. Like one mentioned, it doesn't take a big fish to pull one down. Caught some really nice 2-5 lb channels and blues, but a 10 lb blue kept us busy for about 20 minutes of the 'up & down' thing all over a cove. Now, the 32 lb flathead was more like over an hour and half...get kinda close to the jug, but that dude could either sense or hear the boat drift up to it. Left him alone after about 30 minutes of trying and came back about every 30 minutes. He must have finally sulled some and we grabbed the jug...it's amazing how they get that EXTRA energy to pull even harder then.

Now, I have added 3-4 extra jugs on each of my singles for adding buoyancy...maybe that'll help out some.

Oh, recreational anglers MUST HAVE white jugs and commercial anglers MUST HAVE orange jugs. No exceptions on this requlation for freshwater impoundments. They must contain your name, address and date it was set. They must be updated every 30 days.

Looking to make a few more. They'll keep you busy when the catfish are biting, especially when they bite all day long, or at least I have a couple pretty good spots that I can catch channels and blues all day.