05-12-2023, 03:26 PM
While jug fishing is not legal in Utah, it is a legal and fun way to fish for cats in many other states. But this is Utah. And someone might use live minnows and catch a hatchery pet rainbow or something. End of unpaid political announcement.
I may or may not have unwittingly violated the laws by fishing for cats under a big salt water bobber back in the 1970s...on Willard Bay...from my float tube. When I got bored I put up my rod (fishing two rods was illegal in those days) and set out a big bobber with about 20 feet of line and a big piece of carp or sucker meat...or dead green sunfish (which was legal in those days).
When a fish got hooked it was a circus trying to catch up with the bobber using only fin power. Cats have sensitive lateral lines and can tell when you are chasing them. I solved the problem by casting a lure over the line to hook it and bring in the fish.
I am attaching an excerpt from my video on CATFISH...HOOK TO PAN
I may or may not have unwittingly violated the laws by fishing for cats under a big salt water bobber back in the 1970s...on Willard Bay...from my float tube. When I got bored I put up my rod (fishing two rods was illegal in those days) and set out a big bobber with about 20 feet of line and a big piece of carp or sucker meat...or dead green sunfish (which was legal in those days).
When a fish got hooked it was a circus trying to catch up with the bobber using only fin power. Cats have sensitive lateral lines and can tell when you are chasing them. I solved the problem by casting a lure over the line to hook it and bring in the fish.
I am attaching an excerpt from my video on CATFISH...HOOK TO PAN