 Howdy fishing freaks. Welcome back to the channel. Thanks for subscribing. Thanks for being here and hitting those ding-dongs. I had some requests to do more cat fishing videos after my last backpacking shore fishing adventure and I'm here to deliver for you. Catfish sure are tasty and I enjoy eating them. I'm sure a lot of you do too and there's a lot of ways to catch a little catfish. You can give it a dangle with a rod and reel and catch it that way. You can go hang Williams dive and catch them on a trot line or you can stick your hand into a hole which I've seen some giant snapping turtles while bass fishing and they kind of give me nightmares so I prefer not to do that method or you can gather up some bottles and run some jump lines and that's the method I'm going to be showing you today. Now the last time I did this back before I got hardcore and bass fishing me and my buddies would literally just use these jugs right here. This is a bleach jug you can use you know coke bottles anything like that but since then there's been a lot of advancements and I've been looking at the interwebs and I've seen a ton of different ways to do these jug lines and this is the most popular right here. This is using PVC pipe and pull noodles. There's a lot of advantages to this method that I can tell but I've never run one of these. I've only run one of these. I'm going to show you both. The reason I find this very interesting is because just about anybody can do this and it's fun. I mean look at this thing. This is how simple it is. This is what you're using. Put a little weight on there some snap swivels and some line and for things like that and then the next thing you know you're putting some sticky stuff on there and you're coming up with a nice catfish surprise. So if you're looking to get into the jugline game you're in luck because I'm getting to it. I haven't done this in a while. I'm probably gonna make some mistakes but I'm gonna fix them. I'm gonna walk through it with you. Let's get out there and let's see what you gotta do to make a jugline work. So here's what to keep in mind about this video y'all. If I completely knew what I was doing I would lay out all the materials that you would need. The exact proportions display it all nice and cleanly for you but I don't. Since this is a fishing channel and I normally do things in series and we learn together and it's multiple videos learning process you know. Things change every year. It's like man this is an adaptation. Man I didn't know that last year. I learned this from somebody. So I'm gonna try it on this first run. If something didn't work in the best it can be. I'll go back I'll make adaptations and I'll show you that later. This ain't gonna be the only catfish video y'all. LFG OSG and LFB. We gotta eat around here. Right now I'm about to mix up some concrete in this bucket and pour it in some Dixie cups. This is firming up quick. Alright we're just gonna pour these bad boys out because I made a mistake. I told you guys I was gonna make mistakes. I needed some extra rocks here anyway. Let's try this again. Little learning lesson there. So when you get quick creating it says 20 minutes. It's Texas and it's 108 outside. Make that about five. These little cups with the wires in them those are gonna be our weights. Couple different types of jug lines. You can have free floating jug lines which means those suckers can just float all around the lake. Free floating ones that don't have a heavy weight are set up a little bit differently and that's a more in the moment kind of deal. You gotta be watching those things. Fish can grab it, can take off. You never see your jug or yen. You gotta pay attention. The ones I'm gonna show you here today you just let them sit in one spot. Go about your business for a couple hours maybe even overnight. Drink you a couple of frosty Coca-Cola's and then come back and your fish is gonna be in the same spot. So that's what I like about these and you can put up to five hooks on them here in Texas which means you have the chance of catching Senko catfish shows. For this first go what I'm gonna try is a braided nylon. I picked this up at an academy it's called Pro Cat. Tensile strength 120 pounds. I guess because it's rope they say tensile instead of like you know pound test. For the sake of everyone's normal fishing sanity I'll just say 120 pound test. Number 15 and a quarter pound. To be honest with you I don't know what that means. So in the past how I've done these is basically just tie some loop knots on there and put some trot line clips. I'll show you those right now. These are trot line clips. I'll take one out of the package so you can see. Real handy super convenient. So trot line is where you run a line and you can tie between two logs but it runs across like this. Jug lines are running like this. But what these clips allow you to do is quickly detach your leaders. It's a big chunk of metal. I never liked that one I'm fishing. You know fish can sense that feel it. I'm convinced of it. The catfish they got them barbels all over the face. The barbels are the whiskers. But the catfish barbels are great at sensing a lot of things in the water. Similar to a shark uses their ampula of Lorenzini to detect electrical senses and impulses in the water. Catfish are like freshwater sharks. However they allow people to stick their hands in their face and get pulled out. So I don't know I'm kind of stuck in a quandary on that one. But these clips the main reason I'm not going to use these going down the line is because I want my line to look like a drop shot. It's basically where your hook sticks straight out from your line a foot or two above a weight. Your lure is dangling like this instead of dangling like this. Now if I detach one of those clips that has another line to it what happens is it's going to have loose play right here with clip and that thing is just going to sink down. It's going to be kind of dangling down here. But when I tie that loop knot and I'll show you guys how to do that in just a second. Don't worry that knot right there is going to allow me to then run a short monofilament strip of line out here like 50 or 60 pound or fluorocarbon. I can use fluorocarbon as well. Fluorocarbon actually might be better because it's different. In my head that's kind of what I'm thinking will help it stick out more. The more it sticks out easier the fish can grab it sense it detect it and then not get tangled up and get off. In Texas a lot of my legs are 50 to 60 foot deep max and then there's a thermocline and it really kind of sits depends on the year the water levels and all that but it can usually sit between 20 and 30 feet of water. So I'll make my lines more than 20 feet. I'll make them all the way out to 50 foot on some of them. But if I have my loops going all the way down and five foot increments then I can just simply choose the loop that sits at the depth that I'm about to fish at. If I want to put it in 20 feet go to the fourth loop and on the way I'll have an easily detachable trot line clip that allow me to adjust that depth if I need to. So this means if I'm fishing in 20 foot of water I'm going to get up to three baits on that jug line. Let me show you how to tie one of these simple loop knots and then we're going to go all the way down the rope and I'll show you how the whole thing looks. All you got to do is double over your line and then you're going to take that and simply tie an overhand loop just like this. You're going to pull this long end and there you go. It's a simple, strong and effective knot. It could also be used in a survival situation. I'm about 60 tall. Five foot is about right there. So all I got to do is let that knot go down to the bottom right there. Five foot, tying on the loop. That easy. Time to make some leaders. So I'm going to play around with some different leaders and see which ones I like best, the ones that are sticking out the most, the stiffest that I can still tie knots with basically. Honestly, I think anything over 25 pound test is going to be pretty good, especially when you're talking about pure fluorocarbon shock leader or saltwater style leader. I actually use that a lot in bass fishing and it's really strong, really dense and it's good. So here I've got some 66 pound. I've got 34 pound. I know these are weird European style fluorocarbon. So and then I got your traditional American special 25 pound tri-lane baking. One of these is going to do the trick. The hooks that I'm going to be using are circle hooks. This is also made by Team Catfish. This is a five-ought. I got 14 in this package. Now, if you're not familiar with circle hooks, they are fantastic for keeping the fish on the line because how the heck they're going to throw that thing? I mean, it's basically a circle that goes in the corner of their mouth and then it's almost impossible for them to come on hooked once they've been hooked on this unless they're pulling so hard that they're bending it out. That had happened on Goliath Groupers, but that's a whole other video. So with a circle hook, you really don't want to set the hook. You just want to kind of lightly pull or let the fish hook themselves, which is often what happens. If you've never heard of a snel knot, this is a great situation for it. I also use it in bass fishing on straight wire hooks, straight shank hooks that I'm trying to flip and get maximum penetration with. There's no bend in the shank. So this will work with a snel knot. Previously tied some of these up from a saltwater trip for stingrays. That's a snel. So the line wraps around the shank of the hook and then it goes up through the eye. Now this little tool right here, FanTastic. A friend introduced me to this while carp fishing probably 10 years ago and they're just outstanding for carp fishing and cat fishing. I even used to use them for Carolina rigs for bass fishing, where you can tie up multiple leaders at once. So if you run in jug lines, you can keep your your rigs attached to this. If you're carp fishing or cat fishing and you break off, you just take your leader, tie it to a swivel, take the whole leader line. Maybe you don't have a swivel on there. It doesn't matter. It's got a little notch around there and you twist it around. So this is made by Tackle Buddy. Nobody sponsored this video today, but I'll tell you this is an awesome tool. I think you can find pretty useful if you're avid fisherman and I'll leave a link in the description. If they still make them, they probably do. I'm gonna try some of the 66 pound leader because it looks really stiff. I don't want it to be too long. I want it to be kind of short and stiff so it's going to stay up. You want it to lay flat. Pull it tight. You know, it's just straight up on the shank. So it's like 100% strength right there close to the eye. If you really want to learn how to tie a snout, let me know in the comments. I'll do a video just about it or maybe do it on a live stream or something like that and kind of give you a better camera angle and everything like that. It's effective for multiple different species, but definitely in saltwater, catfish, carp, and flipping for bass. In the other end, we're going to tie ourselves another one of those loop knots. I'm going to say 8 to 12 inches. Cut that tag end. Now right there is one of our leader lines. So let me show you how that works. So we got our bright yellow chartreuse main line here. You take your leader line, take the loop end that you made, go through that loop, then you take your hook end, bring it through that loop. It's going to catch a little bit on that knot. You just work it through there and then you just pull those together like that. Now that's really easy to get out. So that's tight right now, but if I want to back that out, boom! There it is. This is my first attempt at doing it this way instead of using the trot line clip. So hopefully that works out right there. So that's it. I got to make a bunch more of those to put on the rope and then we're going to attach it to the jug and I'll show you that system. Can't think of a better excuse to get in the pool on a 108 degree day than to test some jug lines. The needles are fancy and fine. We're going to get to that in a second. But let's not forget about the jug. This thing's got a lot of catfish y'all. I've got a simple trot line clip. I put it on my main loop, the top loop. These are quick disconnects. Whatever you're wanting to connect needs to go up in there. You slide it through here and then pinch it shut, then it's connected. So when it's time to connect this to the jug, just slide it through here. Slide it through. Then that's connected. And that's why people use it on trot lines. So they can just go in and just connect, disconnect, got the fish, sling them in that way they're not tangling with the whole rope. Is that enough wrapping and jugging in your face right now? That right there will do. But it won't do by the state of Texas standards. And you'd have to check your your local listings. That sounds very official. I wish you just walked through the frame. What are you doing sweetheart? They definitely saw you. You might as well come out now. Do you have any idea what we're talking about? I want you to look at just what's going on here. Let the fishing freaks know. What do you think that is right there? Is this a way to organize your hooks? That's exactly what it is. Your leader lines more specifically. But yes. I see laundry detergent. Laundry detergent, that came from you. It did. I just threw that away. Yeah, she threw it away about two other times. I kept taking it out and she was like, is that jug just magically appearing or is the what's going on? Every time that I kept seeing this out, I thought I was going insane. I was digging it out of the trash because she didn't know that I was building this. So anyway, I'm building some jug lines. Good. I would love another one of these if you have one. Fabric softener is almost out. Does that work? Yes. Okay. That'll work too. Anything that looks like this. We're going to get some catfish for you and Emory. Alright. Give you some protein. Yum. Alright. Love you. Love you too. Anyways, these make great jug lines for the state of Texas because it's already white. So that's one of the legal things you got to do. And the other thing is you got to put your information on. You can't just be out there just going anonymous jugline. Now, if you don't have a white jug, you can paint it white. But if you use orange, that means it's for commercial use. Now, technically, you're supposed to put a game tag on this. What that means is for some systems, you're using actual plate, a tag plate. What you can also do is just write it on the white jug. That says your name, your address, and the date that you put it out. That's the most important thing. So when you're juglining, you do not want to let this thing sit for dates. You know, I would never let this sit for more than overnight. I think we all know what happens to fish when they're dead for a long time. They smell like turds and they're not good to eat. Now, the thing you got to remember, if you're going to use this multiple times, is you got to be able to scratch that date out and put another one on there. Now, unless you're a frequent mover or name changer, that's going to stay the same. What I'm going to do is put my name and address on here on the jug and then put it on a piece of tape, put the date. That way I can just peel it off and use a piece of new tape every time. There's a daggum spider in my microphone. Get out there, dude. Living at the Treehouse. Never know. Get off. I think what I'm going to do is wrap the rope separately on something that it's not just going to get totally befuddled. Even though this is not the prettiest thing ever, it will get the job done. We've got the traditional jug out of the way. It's time to build one of those noodles. This noodle jug, I think the official name is a jug. It looks like a noodle, but noodle is a whole different thing. So the fun time noodle jug is much more complicated. We have rebar. We have PVC pipe. We have foam noodles. And we also have to drill a few holes. Hang tight. I'm going to walk you through it, but I also don't know what I'm doing. So it ought to be interesting. You need about two foot of this PVC. You're going to cut out about half that for your noodle. You're going to cap that. You're going to screw an eyelet in there and that is going to be where you hang your line with all your leaders on it. This isn't the real thinsa. I don't know which is better to be honest with you. The 40. I think that has to do something with the thickness of the pipe. Regardless, what you want to happen is for this rebar or weight, whatever you want to use, you can use some, you know, cylinder lead. If you had it, you want that to be able to go in there easily. Slide up and down and I'll show you why. So we're going to cut this to nine inches. Okay. Doesn't really have to be exact. Literally just going to use a knife for this part. Now I know that doesn't seem like much. It takes a lot to pull these things out and consistently hold it down. I'm going to say a catfish up to 30, 40 pounds is going to have a really hard time trying to pull this thing under. Now that's going to go on our PVC like so. It's going to slide and move around. I'm not really sure if that's good or not. I also have some three-quarter inch PVC I can put in here that would firm it up a little bit. In fact, what we may do is to do one three-quarter and then one half and then see which one works better. Here comes the hard part, cutting the rebar. I wasn't exactly sure if I had the right tool. I'm still not, but I went over to LFD's house and I got a hack saw. And I can't remember if I've got the right little hacking teeth on it or the wood hacking teeth. It's kind of rubbed off over time so we're about to see. I'm going to clamp that down. If you don't have a set of clamps like this, I found them to be extremely useful, except that one is not big enough. This one's freaking huge. Well, I'm still getting teeth so I guess it's going to work. Here we go. When we cap our PVC, which I'm going to probably have to use some glue on there. I don't know. That might be tight enough. Smash that on there. There we go. Then we put this in there. So here's the whole point of that deal. Isn't that fun? So essentially what we have made here is a giant weighted bobber. If you guys have ever used bobbers that have a little lead on the bottom, you know, that's to keep that thing upright. Of course, we don't want it upright all the time. When we first lay this thing in the water, it should lay flat, experimentally. On this end is going to be where our line tie is. Then we're going to have our rope. So when a fish pulls on it, it'll go down and then this should float up and then this is the weighted end. So you basically know you got a fish. It's like those flags for ice fishing. Remember that one time where I fell and busted the back of my head ice fishing with John and Rob? Using those things. We got to drill ourselves a little bit of a hole now. Don't get too worried. It's not going to get too crazy. Hooks or gotchos. I think I want a little overboard on these size-wise. I think that's a little excessive. These are screw-eyes. They're enclosed. I can screw them into the ends and then tie our rope on there. Just match you up a drill bit that's kind of similar. This is a 3-30 second that I'm going to use. Then we're going to take our caps. Now make sure you get the right fitting cap. So if you get half inch PVC, get half inch caps. Put our drill bit in here. Now we just need to put that screw out in the hole. Doesn't have to be perfect. I recommend getting a short screw-eye if you can. It's an inch and five-eighths. Your rebar isn't going and slamming into that deal and then you might knock it out. So then you got to cap that up. And, uh, wow. You're done. That foam just looks kind of small for that though, to be quite honest with you guys. I might switch up and put a bigger piece of foam on there. I honestly thought that was going to take a lot longer. That probably took me 10 minutes with filming everything. If you wanted to go to town and make you a bunch of these, which maybe you do, you could get it done in a night. You know, maybe with a cold frosty one or two. One last thing that I'll do is put construction adhesive on the ends. Now you could use PVC glue. Actually, it's probably the best thing to do since it's PVC. Since I do so many home projects nowadays, fix-ups around the house, it's just really easy for me to use the construction glue that has already been opened and it's been out. Construction glue works on just about everything. Put that on there. Yeah, I'm not even worried about the cello. If I can't pull it off like that, I'm not worried about it. But this one is going to be the end of the fish pulling on. If I get a 50-pounder, I want to make sure I get it. The only thing left to do with this is to mark it with our personal information. I think this is actually supposed to be white foam. White foam is probably the best thing you can use because I know for sure that is going to be illegal. And we don't want to be breaking it all down here. But you could put some white duct tape on it or spray painted white or put some gray duct tape on it and paint that white. I mean there's multiple options. The main point is it needs to be white. I haven't forgot about our weights. Instead of going to the store and buying some expensive lead sinkers, I opted to use the cement method. Saw this on a YouTube video somewhere, one of the the jug liners. I thought it was a pretty good idea. Oh, there we go. Push up from the bottom. That's what a finished weight looks like. I mean if you lose one of these, big deal. I went ahead and built me a three-quarter inch one as well guys and used a little bit more foam on there so we can see what that's like. And it does fit a lot more snug. So that is nice. Family dinner night. We're going to go over there. We're going to spend a little time with the fam. And I figured I'd go to their pool and test out these noodles and see what's going on. Sorry, I called them noodles. They're jugs, but they have noodles on them. Just got out of the pool. It's 111. Let's get a little overeated. I had to take a deal. They've got nine hooks and leaders on here. So I've got three different jug lines. I made a three-quarter pipe. I made a half pipe and I made, well, the jug. The nice thing about having this, guys, it's so much better. You just wrap it around here. And this one goes out to about 30 feet. I'll just stick that there. What I actually need to do is put this pin on the loop. Then I've got my weight. There we go. All right, let's drop it in. Hook and the weight on now. Let's drop it in the pool. See what happens. So I think it's important to have the pool noodle slid up on this other side. That doesn't happen. And we're going to have something like that. That's completely the wrong way. I'm probably going to have to stick that in place where that's going to stay there. But the weight is on that in. A little piece of rebar is on that in. So let's see. Theoretically, if something bad will happen. There it goes. There we go. That's working. It's going to dangle about two inches off that rope. That angle looks like it's touching. It's not. It's not sticking out quite as much as I want it to. That's not terrible. So if y'all want to tune in to the next phase, which is basically getting some kitties on a little bad voice, go ahead and subscribe to the channel. And don't forget to hit the ding dong for all the notifications. If you're digging this, go ahead and hit the like button. Y'all, I can't wait to see you back here. 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