How deep to rig jug lines?

do each at diff depths

As short as you can still bring a fish in the boat. What I mean is if it's too short you won't have any "play" when you pick up the jug. Give yourself a little. I like mine about 30 inches.

People don't realize just how much catfish will feed on the surface too.

Less to roll up and still effective.

If fishing in say, the Red River, what are the pros/cons of using multiple hooks per jug?

Thanks, want to give it a try and will start slow till I see what works. Never done it before.

Mine are 50' long, but I fish them anywhere from 6' to 50'. My drops(hooks) are on clips that clip on the jug main line. At the bottom of the main line, I weight it with a 1 1/2 lb lead sinker.

I put anywhere from 2-3 hooks to as many as 20 per line.

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If fishing in say, the Red River, what are the pros/cons of using multiple hooks per jug?

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Fishing them overnight, I catch more then 2-3 fish per line. I fish the Mississippi River and other back waters.

Doing jugs on Red River up here in pool five the best we ever did was with them no more than a couple feet deep using big plastic coke bottles with glowsticks in them at night. You come up on the fish that can take a full sized coke bottle down and keep it down, you better get a gaff.

I've had decent look around 18 inches

Slight spinoff: I live right by the levee and with the water being high I might go try to run jugs over the barrow pits. Has anyone tried this before?

Does current effect you or if they have trees between me and the actual normal banks of the river should I be okay?