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michael pierson (Spot)
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Username: Spot
Post Number: 18
Registered: 10-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 3, 2005 - 5:21 pm: |     |
I love jug lines thers nothing better than fishing and sleeping at the same time. |
David Sitton (Dave53)
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Username: Dave53
Post Number: 139
Registered: 1-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 6, 2005 - 1:57 pm: | |
One thing I am going to change on my jugs are the hooks..I had about 50/50 with the circle hooks but after watching one take my jug under and try to run with it and still not be on the hook, I think I will change to all circles. Did have a better catch ratio.. Last year I use 2 liter bottles, styrophome, and noodles..this year I'll keep the styrophone but the 2 liter jugs have got to go..they take up too much room and blow around way too much..the noodles worked best for me.
Lonedell, Missouri... |
Jerry Trew (Jtrew)
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Username: Jtrew
Post Number: 4731
Registered: 3-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 6, 2005 - 5:31 pm: | |
Put 2 fistsful of small gravel inside each 2-liter jug. Tie your jugline to the neck of the soda jug. The gravel will not only keep the jug from blowing around so much, but when you get a hit, the gravel will slide down into the neck of the jug and keep it in a 'flagged' position.
Jerry, Little Rock, Arkansas |
shane moss (Trad_archer)
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Username: Trad_archer
Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 12:09 pm: | |
Here in Alabama, we jug the sloughs and stay out of the current. Noodle jugs with reflective D.O.T. tape and circle hooks gets my vote. A five gallon bucket holds 10 jugs and ten to a slough, we hardly ever lose any. Been catfishing 20 years and learned more in a few months reading here.....just gotta say thanks! |
Jerry Trew (Jtrew)
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Username: Jtrew
Post Number: 4753
Registered: 3-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 2:52 pm: | |
In summertime, blue cats will roam over the channels and current breaks in the Arkansas River. Freefloating a bunch of jugs 10-15 miles down the river is a whole 'nuther way of jugfishing. There's none of this laid back, soakin' in the sun, waitin' for a bite stuff; you're constantly busy retreiving jugs that have gotten hung up or gotten stalled in slackwater, bringing them to the front of the pack and getting them back in the water, and generally trying to keep them in a half mile long pack. Very productive. I've put jugs back in coves on occasion, and I've been experimenting with anchored jugs, but so far, it seems that I'll catch at least twice as many cats on freefloating jugs in the current as any other way.
Jerry, Little Rock, Arkansas |
dennis holloway (Saynow)
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Username: Saynow
Post Number: 3
Registered: 1-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 12:40 pm: | |
A newbie here, but been juggin for awhile, used everthing from bleach jug's to starafoam , the noodle work's best for me. This last year I started doing something a little different, cut 4 jug's per noodle, tie off line about six inches from bottom, take a piece of cloth's hangar make tight loop at top hook your line through the hook and thread it into the center hole of noodle and out bottom put on as many hook's as legal at depth's as disgused earlier, I use 5 ounce weight, and paint jug's florescent orange. Hope to talk to you all again |
Jerry Trew (Jtrew)
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Username: Jtrew
Post Number: 4832
Registered: 3-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 5:38 pm: | |
Welcome to the BOC, Dennis! I'm curious; why a 5 ounce weight. To me, that seems too heavy for a freefloating jug, and not heavy enough for an anchored one.
Jerry, Little Rock, Arkansas |
dennis holloway (Saynow)
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Username: Saynow
Post Number: 6
Registered: 1-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 5:48 pm: | |
All I use are freeloater's, I fish grand lake in Ok. my fishin buddy and I tried different weight's up to a pound, which really slowed the jug down, the 5 ounce cover about a mile in 6 or 7 hours depending on wind and power generation from the dam. I hope this answer's your question Jerry |
Chris Glass (Catfishcentral)
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Username: Catfishcentral
Post Number: 478
Registered: 1-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 10:20 pm: | |
I have been increasing the weight on my jugs for the last few years. We started out with two ounce bank sinkers and are now up to eight ounce bank sinkers on all of our jugs. Everyone has there own reasons and preferences but here are a few of mine. First I've notice that I'm getting better hookset's with the heavier weight. The resistance at both the top of the jug and at the bottom has increased my precentage of caught fish. Second jugs in Oklahoma can be left unattented freefloating or anchored up to 24, hours day or night. My jugs that left overnight will have fish on for many hours and those blues will really tangle up a line. I've notice that the heavier weights have decreased this problem. Third a eight ounce weight will work both as a anchored jug and freefloating in many situations. Jugs that I wish to anchor on the bottom with long line jugs will barely move even in strong wind and waves on lakes. I will usually set these anchored jugs on the river channel in the lake and they will barley move overnight. Also this keeps my jugs from washing up to the shore when they would with smaller weights. In rivers the eight ouncer will hold anchored in slow to moderate current. If I choose to freefloat my jugs they go there merry way down the river. Since lots of catfish will hang out next to a dropoff, a ledge or edge the jug will stop and anchor itself at that point.
Don't leave confidence and optimism out of your tackle box |
Jerry Trew (Jtrew)
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Username: Jtrew
Post Number: 4839
Registered: 3-2002
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 8:47 am: | |
I was just curious. Here in Arkansas, you have to constantly 'attend' freefloating jugs during daylight hours, although you can leave them unaddended overnight. Anchored jugs are considered to be trotlines, and are only required to be checked once a day. I use a 2# cannonball to anchor my jugs. My 2-liter jugs will float a little over 4#, so if a cat pulls it into deeper water, the jug still floats. I put a couple of fistsful of small gravel into each jug so that when I get a hit the jug tips up, the gravel slides down into the neck of the jug, and keeps it in a tipped position. Using a 5 or 8 ounce sinker would cause the jug to tip when it's hit by a wave and give me a false indication that I had had a hit on that jug. All the weight I want for a freefloating jug is a 16p nail. But hey, that just proves my argument that what works for one person may or may not work for the next person.
Jerry, Little Rock, Arkansas |
Bob Bacon (Bob_bacon)
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Username: Bob_bacon
Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 2:02 pm: | |
Thanks Jerry for describing your jug set up. I am a neophyte to cat fishing and need all the pointers I can get.
Your set up will be very helpful here is Missouri where we also have a similar anchored jug rule. I have a question for you. How do you keep the bait line from wrapping around the anchor line? |
Jerry Trew (Jtrew)
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Post Number: 4842
Registered: 3-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 3:06 pm: | |
I don't worry about it. Since I'm not into bass fishing any more, I can't give you the right terminology, but there's a method of using a plastic worm that's very similar to a jugline, except that the dropper length is zero. In other words, the hook is tied directly to the line, and the sinker is tied on the end of the line below the hook. This rig is then jigged up and down. The bass seem to have no trouble getting hooked, so I know a catfish can gobble it down.
Jerry, Little Rock, Arkansas |
Billy Doty (Osageco_flathead)
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Username: Osageco_flathead
Post Number: 23
Registered: 2-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 7, 2005 - 3:04 pm: | |
I doctor my juglines up more than most. One thing I learned is to put a little gaskett seal around the lid to keep the water out. |
tim wright (Ultima_cat_man)
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Username: Ultima_cat_man
Post Number: 260
Registered: 8-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 9:46 pm: | |
i use clear jugs and put glow sticks in them its amazing how far away you can see them, i usually go anchor and fish from a distance and watch the jugs bob and start to move across the water, its a cool site to see and ill try to get some pictures next time i go out . tim
REAL MEN CATFISH!!!!
granite city illinois |
JORDAN THOMPSON (Massa_jorge)
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Username: Massa_jorge
Post Number: 164
Registered: 2-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 2:54 pm: | |
that's drop shotting, jerry! i sometimes use the same method on rod and reel in current, or in an area with a lot of rocks or cover. you can even have a fish snag you up in cover and bring him in after yu break the weight off. very good setup! catfishermen used it and the b@$$ "fishermen" ripped it off, by the way.
-jordan |
Scott Daw (Whitetiger)
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Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 11:58 pm: | |
There are 2 ponds up here about 100 feet apart that was part of a public park until someone bought the neighboring land and posted the back pond. the back pond had all the good fishin in it. I caught my 2 largest cats ever from that one(but on different days). they were 36" & 38 1/2" channel cats. I used to use my 1 man inflatable raft and paddle around by hand with my spinning rod catching whatever would bite while I'd have my gatorade bottle with 50# test and treble hook with liver bobbing around. It was alot of fun when my bottle would start cruising like a scene outta jaws. I'd back stroke over (no room for oars in the dinky thing) and try not to capsize while pulling up the cat. then paddle over to a tree limb to put it on my stringer.
Heres a life lesson for ya'll.......catfish and inflatable rafts dont mix!!
My 3rd cat that day wouldnt stop fighting. on my way over to the stringer, it spiked my raft. I had enough time to get my stringer and paddle almost to the other side. I sunk in 4 foot of water. I still had my fish. That was rather imbaressing for me at the time. I jokingly named my raft the ss minnow when I was floating around, but never imagined I'd have the same fate a giligan!!! |
JORDAN THOMPSON (Massa_jorge)
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Username: Massa_jorge
Post Number: 174
Registered: 2-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 1:47 am: | |
welcome aboard, whitetiger, you're gonna fit right in...  |
Jerry Trew (Jtrew)
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Username: Jtrew
Post Number: 4967
Registered: 3-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 11:27 am: | |
Welcome to the BOC, Scott! That brings back memories. Back in the late 80s while running some trotlines, there were a couple of guys in the same area that had set out a couple of lines using an inflatable kyak...the cheap kind made to use as a toy in a swimming pool. I tried to keep an eye on them the whole time I was there, because I was sure I was going to have to go fish somebody out of the water. It really surprised me when that didn't happen.
Jerry, Little Rock, Arkansas |
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