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new to jug fishing
during the summer is it best to fish deep water or flats, and how deep do you need to fish, do you fish the water with alot of current or try to find pockets with little current any advice will help.

Never jug fished the lakes much but have done tons in the mighty MS. We look for sand bars away from the main channel that we can float(and drink) for a while,.. Still a little early for the big river to get right. Good luck to you though

Hayes, here's the scoop.

20oz plastic coke bottle. 4-5ft of line. No weights! Medium size hooks, don't get too big.

Day in day out, cut shad will do the best job for bait.

Drop your jugs in the middle of the channel. When the river is up and rolling stay home. Drop about 20-30 in one spot and then run down or up a 1/2 mile and find a flat, etc and drop another 20-30. This will keep you busy.

Sometimes the flats will be productive, sometimes that 4ft of line in 30ft of water will catch fish.

Don't worry about barges, they actually help get some action.

I use to jug fish quite a bit in some of the lakes around here -- we put our jugs out over night and used some bigger weights-- we liked to put them in the channels and the bigger weights slowed the jugs down so they wouldn't float the other sideof the world over night -- never jug fished much during the day time -- I normally used 1 gallon jugs like bleach jugs and such

Jug's are fun for kids, and great for relaxing. I don't like em in the current because they hit the drifts on smaller water. We run lines in running water, just less hassle. slow drifts, lakes, cutoffs ect. with a lot of cold beer and the xm on 'hank's place' ....

Night time seems to be the best on lakes and cutoffs, you'll get more catfish and less bowfin and gar and hotter action overall.

Anything that floats will work, personally I like the oversize pool noodles cut to 20" with a short dowel and two eye hooks placed in each end. I tie a stiff water resistant ester core rope through the eye hook so it loops out the back of the float. This way I can gaff the float from the deck of the boat and have a solid connection to the hook. I also like the bright orange for visibility. Jugs, foams, or any other can fail with big fish if you grab the float and not the line. But, huge fish are not the norm with floats.

I've been using cutup pool noddles for a couple of years. I also put on weight to help slow the drift.

We do a lot of jug fishing on the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers. A few years back, I switched from jugs to noodles becuase they are easier to transport and they hold up well. One tip with noodles is to put a strip of reflective tape on each end so you can see them easily at night when the light hits them. We fish in the main channel some, but we've also had luck in the mouths of large sloughs and creeks.

All them jugs give me something to jump while were out wakeboarding

Tunica-- We don't have much trouble with current on the Tombigbee, so no weights over here.

Trip-- so it's you that keeps messing up a good day on the river?