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