 So I want to show you some of the modifications I made to the jugs before getting them wet. What we've done is I've gone in and I've taped them up with white tape just to make TPWD standards. I've added a little chartreuse tape to the top just to give it a little added visibility. So last night I went for a little test run with all three of these just to see, just get to feel, see what's going on with them, and see what kind of modifications we need to make and see if we can get any kitties on the line with the current version. So here's what happened. Oh this is, this is the fun part, y'all. We got some cheese livers, some stink baits, we have some shad, shad in a bag. I've always wanted to try that. By the way, don't want to snip these. We're just out here off of Main Lake Point, about 25 feet of water. This is where we're going to drop. The kitty should be mad. I'm having difficulties. This is a learning process for sure. I do not like the bottom. The line has to be tight. It's really hard the way I did it with the increments. So I think I'm going to come out with a better solution. I've literally just been cutting the excess off right now. So I'm just going to redo my other lines. Hopefully something gets on the line soon. It's just like staring at a bobber. It's ready, ready to be thumped. So that one right there is actually a little bit suspended. He's not totally on the bottom. So if I had to rate my first version of these. Well the jug is the jug. I mean it's fine. But on the new jugs, I'm going to give myself like a five and a half. Now that I'm out here I really understand a lot more what I need to do. Make this a lot more efficient and easy. Now would be a good time to have another rod. Another shad. Not eaten. Okay, maybe it's my location. That one more stink bait didn't even get hit. Jeez. That's all she wrote for now. I don't give up that easy. It's time to go back to the fish cave and make some modifications. So these do work functionally. I mean the weight slides. The worst part of it I think I wasn't able to adjust the depth with my weight where I wouldn't have a much excess line hanging off. And every loop that went down was about five feet. So you know I was in about 20 to 25 feet of water and I had about 40 feet of line. So that would mean I'd have to pick a loop down there about 20, 25 feet. Put the barrel swivel on it. Now I've got a bunch of excess line hanging off which I don't like. So I think there needs to be a system where I can wrap the extra line, keep it on the noodle, and then it still keeps its functionality. Also when I go to wrap these things up, it's just a mess. Like I really wish that I had a better system on here to wrap the line around. Do want to make some adjustments, make some extra ones that have a different system down here where I don't have to sit there and fumble around with the weight hanging off. I mean I was actually thinking last night I could be sitting there and then a catfish could grab that thing as I'm fumbling with trying to adjust the depth and just pull, you know, and get a hook in my hand or something. That's terrible. I do not like that at all. The dehydrated shad. Actually it's not even dehydrated. It says wounded. I'm not kidding you. It's a wounded shad. One thing that does work amazing is the TacoBuddy leader system. Taking them on and off the line is super easy. And I also had the catfish nuggets. That stuff stinks like an old skunk that I mixed and fed the night before. It's just having a bad hangover the next day. A lot of other adjustments I think can be made. So since I build stuff just about every day here at the treehouse and we're sitting in the construction zone right now, I'm going to take you guys along for the adjustment build and then we're going to get these wet. And by the way, the next project after this is going to be the fishing cave wood table build, which I've already been cleaning up. That old wood that we got from that old barn house. That wood is looking amazing. Kitty's first though. There's like three little holes and then there was a banana peel. He got in there. He wanted that. And there's bacon grease so he wanted the bacon. Oh he wanted that bacon. That's keeping an eye on those raccoons. Got armadillos and skunks in the yard as well. And foxes. Just full blown. Now that I've got all the bird poop and the crusties off of this future shelf that's going in the treehouses is going to be our little work area. We're going to build the rest of these jug lines. We got our PVC primer and glue. We got our extra PVC pieces, eyelets. We got silicone. We got duct tape. We have our noodles. We have our pipe. Got a few extra things on my engineer. We'll see if that's relevant here in the future. But right now let's hit some jams and get to work. Since I'm experimenting, just about every jug is different. I've experimented with some shrink wrap on some of these to try to keep the lines out. I've experimented with different fluorocarbons, lupenauts, or the surgeon's lupenaut. I've done just straight up barrel swivels and tied surgeon's lupenauts to those. Everyone is a little bit different, including the hooks. Some are circles, some are octopus. So this is going to be the biggest difference right here. It's the ring versus the T-bar. We'll call it the T-bar, I guess. So what this allows me to do is just tie it off. Tie a knot like I'd be tying up to a little boat cleat or something like that. I can sit this in any depth. I can adjust this by the inch. This one, it's kind of adjusted by this clip right here, and I'd have to tie another lupenaut and move up and down. It takes more time, and it's not as accurate. However, this one's got a swivel on the end to prevent a line twist. This one doesn't. I've spent way more time on this than I ever have doing a bass fishing thing. It's been a long time since I've worked on something this long to try to get it right, but that's why I love fishing so much. I mean, learning a new technique, learning a new type of fishing rod or system, and then trying to figure out what makes that the best to go and catch that particular fish. You make those mistakes, and then you come back, and then you learn and learn and learn, and I've been doing that in bass fishing for so long. I kind of take it for granted. Every year, I still learn new things. But with this, I've only done this primitively and just kind of for fun in my teenage years. So doing it now to really try to catch fish, especially after going out and failing one time, now I'm like, I'm into it. Especially knowing there's some giant catfish down here where I live, and there's tons of opportunities for this. These rigs are ready to go now, so let's go get some more bait options and let's hit the water. Found me a good little spot right off a point. There's a lot of shad down there. We're going to be fusing some dogs. I got the cheapest hot dogs I could find. I figured they had the grossest stuff in them. Smoke flavoring. Every kitty loves a good smoke sausage. Now one of the main things you want to focus on with catfish is scent. They're using them barbels. Hot dogs got a real oily fattiness to them. So I think that's why that makes them a real good bait. Same thing with shad. They have a lot of oil in them. Sends a nice little scent field off to the fish. I got me a bucket full of the jug lines. This is all this hard work. Hopefully it pays off, guys. Let's put some dogs on some hooks. Got a couple of them that need dates. So I'm going to add that with some tape and a Sharpie. Woo! Look at that! That looks like a wacky rig, don't it? Okay, so here's what we're going to do. We're going to attach our weight. Nice juicy hot dog on there. I tried shad last time. They still look pretty good, but couldn't get any fish to bite on them. Should just unravel. There it goes. I like this method so much better. A little half itch there. It bombs away on that guy. Okay, we got our line set. This time, I brought some fishing rods. I'm going to wait till sundown. If nothing bites them, I'm going to rebate them. I'm going to come back in the morning. Let these simmer in the waters. Come on, kiddies! Get to biting. I think that one there is going to be problematic. It's already drifting. I might have to readjust that one. The moon is full and it is orange. This is the perfect night to stay out all night. I kind of like it from doing it from the boat. You know, I got my line out over here. I'm just dangling it. I got a crappie rod over here in case I want to dangle before some crappies or some white bass. And then I got my troop of danglers back here. The lines look pretty good. Still got my hot dogs on there. They were going to come off. Looks like big buffalo carp and stuff like that is hanging around here. They are kind of bottom feeders. That's good to see. I've caught catfish here before a long time ago. That's always a bonus. I'm going to hang out here for a minute or two. I'm going to pop these a little bit more and then I'm just going to leave them overnight. It's about 10 o'clock. So I've stayed out here a little bit and I do see a jug down. I don't know if there's a fish on it, but something definitely hit it. Oh, it just came off. Oh, that sucks. It was a little channel cat. Well, he came off, but that was a good sign. Hit the hot dogs, I reckon. So I'm going to load them up again. See if we can get another one. 10 minutes later, I moved around to a little shallower water. I've got a line out right now. I'm fishing. Just so you guys are aware, that's what they look like when they haven't been hit. And then this one right here has been hit. This is the fun part right here. Let's check it and see what's on this guy. Fish got off. The great news is these things are actually working. I've gotten bit on a couple of the different designs. One that did have the fish on had the surgical tubing on it. Was not tangled when I brought it up. The other ones have been kind of tangled. That's good on that design. I'll probably employ that on some of the other ones. I checked another one of those. Still had the hot dogs on it. So I'm going to take it in. And I'm going to get out there early. See y'all in the morning. All right, y'all. It's the next morning. We've let them sit. Let's go see if there's anything on here. Definitely had some lines get taken. I can see that the things are sticking straight up. Three out of the six down. This is exciting. That's what it looks like when they're down. You have one, two, and there's a third one. So I spread these out from about 16 foot all the way out to 25, and it looks like I've got one on each depth loop. One at about 16, one at 20, and then one at 25. So that system worked out pretty good doing it at that depth loop. All right, let's check this one first. There's an empty hook. No fish. Well, that's part of it. The lines don't look very tangled at all, which is good. Oh my gosh, these carp are going to nuts over here. Oh, there was definitely one on there. Catfish slime on it, and he got off. There's one down. We got two more to check. What do we got? He's got nothing on it. I don't seem to like these shad too much. So we've definitely got some issues. So I'm going to have to go look at some different knots and stuff like that, keep the bait on better. Just some different hook systems. I don't know, has fish on it because I can see the buoy moving up and down. Jug number three, going for the win. Oh, it's going. I can see this dude trying to get away. Not getting away. He's fighting already. Be a good one. Yeah, there we go. There's a kitty. Channel cat. Good channel cat. Looks like that's going to be the only fish on the line. The rest of the baits have been cleaned off. Could not escape that circle hook. Alright, this guy is definitely going in the live well. But this system is so cool, guys. And I can't wait to learn a little bit more and advance it a little bit. So I'm going to set out some more lines and I'm going to do a little bit of bass fishing while I'm at it. But this guy is going to be tasty. Thank you guys so much for tuning in today. What a learning lesson this has been. This has been, of course, a few days trying to build these and come out and test them and try them out. So if you want to try these, it's a lot of fun. I didn't know how to build these. I'm going to put some things together. The way it slides up and down, it indicates really well. I just got to work on the hook system a little bit. If you guys have suggestions on these, make sure to leave them in the comments. And you know what to do, fishing freaks. Hit the subscription button. Go ahead and hit the ding dongs for all the notifications so you never miss a single bite. And I love you guys. I hope you're having a blessed day wherever you are. And I'll see you on the next one.