Coming soon, once it warms up, is fishing season.
My family is a member at a private lake, and every year we go jug fishing on this lake. Does anybody else here ever go jug fishing? What has been the biggest fish caught while jug fishing?
For those that do not know what jug fishing is, i will explain.
As the above picture shows, jug fishing is when you tie a fishing line to a bottle (or other floating device, we use cut up swimming noodle pieces) and use it to fish. You make the jug as shown above, and drop them in the lake. You can make as many as you like, and drop them in.
You begin jug fishing right as the sun drops from the sky. The main fish caught while jug fishing is catfish, and these are better caught at night on jugs. The lines on the jugs are usually near the bottom of the lake/river. You can also catch turtles, and sometimes snakes.
After dropping all your noodles in you can either go wait by fishing somewhere else for something else or circle around to the beginning of your noodles and check them to see if a fish is on one. You will usually know when a fish on your jugs because it will be moving more than the wind or current can push it, or it may even be pulled under water.
When we jug fish, we usually use roughly 30 jugs and catch anywhere from 5 to 20 fish during a night fishing trip.
So, does anybody else on the flood jug fish?
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I've seen jug fishing before but have not done it myself.