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Jug Line Bait

Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:36 pm
Posted by subMOA
Komatipoort
Member since Jan 2010
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Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:36 pm
What’s the best?

My little boy has developed a like of running jug lines out of a little jo boat at the camp.

We’ve been using some catfish bait from Wal Marks with decent success- is there anything better?
Posted by awestruck
Member since Jan 2015
10943 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 1:42 pm to
Way back when I did we used a lot of chicken gizzards as well as things marinated in asafetida.

Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
64023 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 2:01 pm to
What species of catfish?
Posted by Mizz-SEC
Inbred Huntin' In The SEC
Member since Jun 2013
19245 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 2:02 pm to

Catch a sucker, scale it leaving the skin on, cut the sides into 1"x2" strips, run the hook through.

You'll catch a few snapping turtles too, but plenty of cats cheap.
Posted by No Colors
Sandbar
Member since Sep 2010
10408 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 2:17 pm to
Where I'm from we have a fish market that sells Buffalo fish. When you fillet a Buffalo, you basically have two fillets. The lower fillet is boneless. They sell that one for $5 a pound. The upper fillet is a strip about 1" wide and as long as the fish. They sell that one for $1 a pound.

Makes perfect bait because all you have to do is cut that strip into 1" cubes. Most of the work is already done for you. And because it's bony, it stays on the hook better.
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
30555 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 2:21 pm to
Lightly cooked hot dog pieces. Marinated w garlic powder

Posted by snapper26
Member since Nov 2015
521 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 3:39 pm to
Any kind of fish or guts that will stay on the hook.

Posted by Wolfmanjack
Member since Jun 2017
1021 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 4:04 pm to
I have some old coon azz patients of mine in Morgan city that use zoat soap. They swear by it.
Posted by subMOA
Komatipoort
Member since Jan 2010
1715 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 4:29 pm to
I heard about the soap before- I think we might try it.

I gave him a 10’ Alumaweld with a 30lb Minn Kota for his birthday- y’all would think the dude is piloting a battleship- at least he thinks so!
Posted by NattyLite
St. Charles Community
Member since Jan 2010
2022 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 5:02 pm to
Coot guts work great. Stays on the hook forever
Posted by armsdealer
Member since Feb 2016
11506 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 6:14 pm to
Catfish livers are the best catfish bait IMO. Free, just got a spend a few seconds taking them out.
Posted by windshieldman
Member since Nov 2012
12818 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 6:33 pm to
You wanting Ops, or blues and channels? Ops I’d go with live bream, the others, bout anything will work
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
19296 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 7:26 pm to
Personally I like to use live bait, it's hard to get but you catch better fish.

If you can find "bait" goldfish or giant shiners they work.

#1 is live bream about 3-4 inches long

We have a trap we use or sometimes buy a box of worms and catch them

Everything in the lake will eat a bream
Posted by auwaterfowler
Alabama
Member since Jan 2020
1943 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 7:32 pm to
We used to get beef fat from a butcher. Stays on hook well and everything seems to love it.
This post was edited on 8/15/20 at 7:33 pm
Posted by CheEngineer
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2019
4234 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 8:48 pm to
Large shiners
Posted by Batman Chalupa
Member since Feb 2020
387 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 8:57 pm to
Live or cut bream, dead smelly shrimp. If you have a cast net try to catch you some shad or buy from somewhere.
Posted by CamdenTiger
Member since Aug 2009
62443 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 9:26 pm to
So, I’ve been running jugs this year with the kids and tried fresh Shad, bream, cut buffalo; and the best have been something I read online. Cut chicken breast and hot dogs; formula has been a bag of cherry jello, garlic powder(both under a $1 at Walmart) mixed in ziplock bag. A big flat of breasts is about $9:50, hot dogs are $1 a dozen. Not inexpensive, but we catch quite a bit of catfish on them. All the flathead have been on bream, but the best for the blues and channels Have been the chicken. Thought the cut bait would do a lot better, and maybe at night, but running them with the kids, the chicken and hotdogs have just produced the best for us...
Posted by TigerBalsagna
tRedStick
Member since Jan 2015
729 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 10:37 pm to
Been slaying cats on jugs for decades with nightcrawlers.
Posted by Tear It Up
The Deadening
Member since May 2005
13479 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 10:39 pm to
Skipjack
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
21924 posts
Posted on 8/15/20 at 10:50 pm to
No one has mentioned the best bait yet which is eel. Cut into a 3/4" square. Only problem is that they are hard to come by.
The Kool-Aid Garlic Powder marinade works real good too.
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