| Of the numerous unmanned fishing tactics | | | | hit, and land them, and then, to collect |
| available for catfish angling, jug | | | | the empty jugs for another drop, or, to |
| fishing is one of the most popular, and | | | | take your floats back out of the water |
| a very effective method, too. Since each | | | | when you are finished, and reduce |
| jug will be rigged with usually one, or | | | | pollution in the water. |
| sometimes up to three hooks on the line, | | | | Never leave jugs you aren't following up |
| and since "juggers" most often use more | | | | on, in the water. Following your jugs |
| than one jug at one time, the amount of | | | | will require a boat, mostly, which you |
| bait being fished increases considerably | | | | can float in, silently, as you whisk |
| and the bait is also spread across a | | | | downstream, after your jugs. If you |
| wide range of area and depth, making | | | | cannot get a boat, or if there are a lot |
| finding fish less difficult. In jug | | | | of snags or underwater structures |
| fishing, the basic idea is to put | | | | present where you are fishing, one |
| together your jug rigs and baits, and | | | | possible solution, is to create an |
| release the jugs into the waterway, to | | | | "anchorline", using your jug rigs as |
| float where they may. | | | | floats for your baits.... a version of |
| Depending on the conditions where you | | | | jug fishing, with a tether. |
| are fishing, this may mean releasing the | | | | By doing this, you can control your |
| jugs to float down river, or just around | | | | jugs, and still maintain access to them |
| a pond or small cove, to ease their way | | | | from the shore, and with several jugs, |
| past all the best fish hideouts. In | | | | you will still reap the benefits of the |
| river fishing, jug fishing is valuable | | | | having multiple lines in the water, with |
| for its ability to cover significant | | | | the same depth control and free-range |
| distance, since free-floating jug rigs | | | | bottom cover offered only by "juggin'". |
| can end up a good distance down river. | | | | Jug fishing is most useful in slower |
| In a wide river, if they are released at | | | | current rivers, or lake and reservoir |
| the right spot, with a run of straight | | | | conditions, as a really strong current |
| water before them, a group of jugs can | | | | will wash the jugs downstream very |
| often freely float for over a mile. Of | | | | quickly, making them hard to retrieve |
| course, jugs must also be followed as | | | | easily. |
| they go, to stay on top of any fish that | | | | |