If you are wanting to know how to go jug fishing, and actually catch fish, then you need not look any further. Don’t worry, because you’re about to find out just what jug fishing is, how it’s done, and what tackle to use to prepare for catching fish.
Jug fishing is essentially using some kind of float or jug, attaching a line and hook, and baiting it for a fish. What you are trying to do here is to get a lot of bait in the water, to increase your odds of being able to land a nice mess of fish, usually catfish. If you can think about in your mind, it’s like having 15 fishing poles and fishing 15 different spot in the lake simultaneously. That is exactly what jug fishing can do.
Jug fishing can be categorized into 2 main kinds. Those two types of jug fishing are free floating jugs and anchored jug fishing.
With regard to anchored jug fishing, you will be locking down your jugs to fixed objects in the water like stumps, rocks, etc. You can also tie on a large weight in order to keep the jug in a fixed position.
But with regard to free floating jugs, there aren’t any additional weights or tie offs, you just rig up, and set the jug in the water. Make sure you place your jug well, because the current is going to push it somewhere, and you want to make sure you don’t end up on a rock or other hang up.
When you rig up your jug lines, go for a pint to a quart sized jug, use a heavy leader line or twine, a barrel swivel, and a circle hook. When you are fishing the anchored jug fishing style, put your hook just 2-4 feet higher then the end of your line, and put your heavy on the bottom of the line. For shallow anchored style jugging, get a rope and tie the jug off directly to a branch, rock or stump that is in the area you want to fish. The best bait to use is live perch or shad, but you can use dead shad or perch and still catch some great catfish.
