Fishing a Double Jug Trotline first the first time!
video description
Date: 2022-06-21
Related videos
Comments and reviews: 9
Kyle
Always use circle hooks when catfishing and make sure that your bait is run through lengthwise on the hook or poked through more than once. That will make it harder for the fish to steal the bait without getting itself hooked. Also, be sure that the point of the hook is not buried in the bait and sticks out past the barb. I find that when I rig my bait up like this, I have more success. Another thing that could be happening, is that your bait could be getting stolen by sunfish or whitebass or turtles. This has happened to me a lot, but since rigging my bait better it doesn t happen as much. It looked like some of your lines were next to shore in shallower water. I would try deeper water with it being so hot and see if that makes a difference. I also want to suggest using a different bait. I ve used shrimp and night crawlers, livers and shad with success, but the best in my experience has been little sunfish. Nothing beats a fresh food source that comes from the water you are fishing in. Little sunfish work well, but if you can catch shad in your cast net that ll work really well too.
Hope that helps. Good luck!
reply
Always use circle hooks when catfishing and make sure that your bait is run through lengthwise on the hook or poked through more than once. That will make it harder for the fish to steal the bait without getting itself hooked. Also, be sure that the point of the hook is not buried in the bait and sticks out past the barb. I find that when I rig my bait up like this, I have more success. Another thing that could be happening, is that your bait could be getting stolen by sunfish or whitebass or turtles. This has happened to me a lot, but since rigging my bait better it doesn t happen as much. It looked like some of your lines were next to shore in shallower water. I would try deeper water with it being so hot and see if that makes a difference. I also want to suggest using a different bait. I ve used shrimp and night crawlers, livers and shad with success, but the best in my experience has been little sunfish. Nothing beats a fresh food source that comes from the water you are fishing in. Little sunfish work well, but if you can catch shad in your cast net that ll work really well too.
Hope that helps. Good luck!
reply
textig061
Bigger floats loose lines lose fish milk jugs one for every 15 ft of trot line create a drawn out W or to structure, with sharp hooks, I lived with on a acidic lake had to replace my hooks every three days with sharpened hooks! My average was 14 lbs on my bream lines, 2. 5 lbs on my Charlie lines but was a Private lake! Baited at sundown and at 10pm, earlier just meant smaller or bait stealers, always baited before a storm or timed them leaving their spawning beds!
reply
Bigger floats loose lines lose fish milk jugs one for every 15 ft of trot line create a drawn out W or to structure, with sharp hooks, I lived with on a acidic lake had to replace my hooks every three days with sharpened hooks! My average was 14 lbs on my bream lines, 2. 5 lbs on my Charlie lines but was a Private lake! Baited at sundown and at 10pm, earlier just meant smaller or bait stealers, always baited before a storm or timed them leaving their spawning beds!
reply
Namath
Loved this! Favorite Googan vid for a long time. Haven't gotten out fishing this year enough. Watching this brought me back to Canal Life in Seville Florida. Ran lines with my Grandfather and got around on a golf cart. You've got it going on, get to live the retired life but for prime time of raising your kids. Absolutely love it and you deserve it Mr Rackley. Happy Fathers Day a day late
Definately try leaving them overnight or at least longer
reply
Loved this! Favorite Googan vid for a long time. Haven't gotten out fishing this year enough. Watching this brought me back to Canal Life in Seville Florida. Ran lines with my Grandfather and got around on a golf cart. You've got it going on, get to live the retired life but for prime time of raising your kids. Absolutely love it and you deserve it Mr Rackley. Happy Fathers Day a day late
Definately try leaving them overnight or at least longer
reply
Sebastian
I fish the Rio Grande river in south texas and a bait I use for trotlines is Zote soap, i cut it into small cubes, I don't know why but it out catches anything I've tried shrimp, cut bait(shad and tilapia, worms. Many times about 50% of the hooks have a fish when I pull them out. But yea Zote soap leave it overnight and fill the cooler in the morning. Try it next
reply
I fish the Rio Grande river in south texas and a bait I use for trotlines is Zote soap, i cut it into small cubes, I don't know why but it out catches anything I've tried shrimp, cut bait(shad and tilapia, worms. Many times about 50% of the hooks have a fish when I pull them out. But yea Zote soap leave it overnight and fill the cooler in the morning. Try it next
reply
Wolf
From what I was taught by my grandfather about running jugs I've found that it is best to let them soak up to 24 hours for the best effect, but I've had days when I've caught 60 fish on a trot and I have had days when I've had 6 fish on a trot so its one of those things that with conditions that change so much it's difficult to truly gauge what the catfish will do
reply
From what I was taught by my grandfather about running jugs I've found that it is best to let them soak up to 24 hours for the best effect, but I've had days when I've caught 60 fish on a trot and I have had days when I've had 6 fish on a trot so its one of those things that with conditions that change so much it's difficult to truly gauge what the catfish will do
reply
robo1210
Never done trot lines with bouys like that. Have always tied one end to a stake of tree on the bank and stretched them out into the river. 100ft typically and let them sit over night. Lots of memories as a kid goin with dad and grandpa setting trot lines before dark, then pole fishing till midnight or so then goin back in the morning to check trot lines.
reply
Never done trot lines with bouys like that. Have always tied one end to a stake of tree on the bank and stretched them out into the river. 100ft typically and let them sit over night. Lots of memories as a kid goin with dad and grandpa setting trot lines before dark, then pole fishing till midnight or so then goin back in the morning to check trot lines.
reply
Tj
so i make what i like to call nuke ems. just microwave some shrimpies with a little water and some kind of seasoning ( lawrys, old bay, etc. ) and they become super rubbery and stay on the hook really well. its gonna make the house smell for a bit, but i highly recommend it! catfish seem to like a little bit of the spice.
reply
so i make what i like to call nuke ems. just microwave some shrimpies with a little water and some kind of seasoning ( lawrys, old bay, etc. ) and they become super rubbery and stay on the hook really well. its gonna make the house smell for a bit, but i highly recommend it! catfish seem to like a little bit of the spice.
reply
Dan
Best advice I was ever given, was by my grandfather always have a knife. I ve carried one everyday for almost 2/3 of my life. Amazing how many times someone asks if anyone has a knife. I can cut a hotdog, or anything. You never know when your 4 year old wants half a hotdog.
reply
Best advice I was ever given, was by my grandfather always have a knife. I ve carried one everyday for almost 2/3 of my life. Amazing how many times someone asks if anyone has a knife. I can cut a hotdog, or anything. You never know when your 4 year old wants half a hotdog.
reply
Michael
Next time you put some just out try putting on some small chunks of unscented ( bar ) soap. It's a trick I learned from several old timers in Mississippi for catching catfish. Only catfish will eat it so you will have no unwanted bi-catch.
reply
Next time you put some just out try putting on some small chunks of unscented ( bar ) soap. It's a trick I learned from several old timers in Mississippi for catching catfish. Only catfish will eat it so you will have no unwanted bi-catch.
reply
Add a review, comment
Other channel videos
