Jug fishing trip

[funbun]

[Mike1234]

Good job nice video


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[funbun]

Thanks. It is fun making these videos. I see so much drift wood out there, I though of taking some, drying it, and turning some jugs on my lathe.

[trypman1]

Very good show, keep them coming.

[funbun]

Yeah, man. Now I gotta clean these suckers.

[Yaker]

Your lucky you live in a state that permits the use of jugs.My state is for some reason a no go on jugs,very restrictive on limb lines,and so so on trotlines,I may have to relocate to a more favorable state!

[funbun]

Yeah, I think it's because the jug fishermen here are very responsible. We stay in sight of our jugs all the time. We don't harvest more than we can eat.

[bowmender]

Nice!

[bkgooch]

awsome video i love it....did u say salted bluegill? id like more info on that if u dont mind.

[funbun]

Yes, sir, I did say salted bluegill. I love bluegill fishing, but there isn't enough meat on them to clean for eating. I fillet the bluegill, then chop off the head. The rest of the body and guts get thrown away. Leave the skin on the bluegill. Depending on the size of the bluegill the fillets I can cut them into four piece. e.g., four pieces on a large blugeill, two pieces on a small bluegill.

Use pickling salt or kosher salt. No iodine. After a trip, stop buy the Wally World and pick a box or two. I use Morton's brand salts. Get some kind of storage containers if you don't have one. Add 1/4 to 1/2 inch of salt to the bottom of the container. Then add a layer of fillets. I usually leave the fillets whole until I use them. Then add another layer of salt. alternate between salt and meat until the container if full. Over night the salt will pull the water out of the meat. Pour off the water. If you can leave the top off so it will dry out, but there's no problem if you let is stay on the boat in a sealed container.

I don't like fishing with the heads, but it's too much bait to throw away. Pack the meth same way, but you'll notice a lot more fluid because the eyeballs are nothing but water. Just drain them the same way. I usually keep the heads in a separate container.

You can also cut the fillets long and narrow for trolling below the dam. You can also do this with drum, carp, shad, skipjack or kind of fish you'd want to do with bait.

The salt preserves the bait. Saltwater guys do this all the time with bait.