Going Out Catfishing Jug Fishing July 31, 2009
If you are interested in learning how to snag a ridiculous amount of catfish, then you need to take a look at using jug lines. Catfish jugging is an incredible way to maximize your time on the water, and tocatch an enormous amount of catfish. When we go out, a lot of occasions we will deploy over 20 jug lines to yank in the fish. There in lies one of the secrets as to why jug fishing outperforms regular rod and reel fishing, the large increase in hooks and bait in the water.
If you are looking to catch blue catfish, using four to six inch live or dead shad on a heavy twine or leader line with a circle hook is the best way to go. My personal favorite bait to use is live perch. Many times we will partially fillet one side of a perch, just to put some blood and scent into the water, to draw in the big fish. When you are going after yellow catfish, you’ll definitely want to consider using perch to catch them.
We’ll take the jugs, and set them out in an area of the water that has many stumps or other good cover for fish, and secure the jugs to the stumps. We have never been skunked using this method. Often we will catch anywhere from 20-50 pounds of fish every day we run the lines, and we will typically re-bait the lines twice a day. This is an excellent way to catch some very nice catfish.