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2023 Fishing Thread

Gizzards (stay on the hook better)with a healthy coating of garlic salt is a good one. I’m becoming a fan of frozen cooked shrimp as well because it’s not messy and it catches fish.
 
These are all good ideas I need to try, any tips on placement? Sloughs? Main channel? Shallow water? Deep?
 
BackSpasm said:
These are all good ideas I need to try, any tips on placement? Sloughs? Main channel? Shallow water? Deep?
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General rule of thumb I follow is if there's current, put them in adjacent slack water. If it's all slack water, put them in current.

Also, if you have a fish finder, use it to find fish or bait and set the jugs there.

Finally, there is no better bait than live in fresh cut. @swampsnyper tried to tell me that before I spent a spring testing stuff on a 100 hook trotline. The results agreed with him. Cut bream, live bream, shad, crawfish, shrimp, etc is king.
 
A few more redfish.

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BackSpasm said:
Made some noodle jugs and pitched them out for kitty cats while I caught panfish this evening in an unsuspecting cove. Plenty of crappies but no catfish. Any tips on jugging out there?
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Not sure where you’re located but the channel and flathead are spawning or finishing up spawning here. A buddy of mine that is a conservation educator did a class a couple weeks ago and didn’t catch many at all.
 
Ckwilli said:
Not sure where you’re located but the channel and flathead are spawning or finishing up spawning here. A buddy of mine that is a conservation educator did a class a couple weeks ago and didn’t catch many at all.
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I think this is comforting and will blame my failure on the spawn even though it’s probably something I’m doing wrong. Thanks!!
 
shmelton said:
My BNL and I caught these a couple of nights ago
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Nice! Crappie are my favorite. I had been working on them pretty good but it’s gotten hot in SW MO. Summer is my least favorite time to fish and I’m too lazy to night fish. Congrats, that’s a nice mess of fish
 
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These are all good ideas I need to try, any tips on placement? Sloughs? Main channel? Shallow water? Deep?
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We can only set jugs on lakes so I normally just carpet bomb a cove or 3. Wind takes them all over hell and creation, I can’t imagine having to track them down in a river system, lol.

And if you can see a dock find somewhere else because they are jug magnets.
 
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These are all good ideas I need to try, any tips on placement? Sloughs? Main channel? Shallow water? Deep?
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I learned a new trick last season. We took a drill and drilled down into a dead tree at about a 45 degree angle. We used fiberglass set poles that were about 4 feet long and put them in the holes. We used enough line to dangle live bait a foot or two down in the water. We used long cane piles back home in a similar manner because of all the clay but the bank is much more rocky here in MO. Set poles work way better when you have current.
 
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