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