05-16-2023, 01:59 PM
Jeff, jugging sounds fun. I've watched several videos and it seems like a hoot. I guess with a setline permit (or as a second rod) you could anchor the end of your line on shore and put a jug out attached to it. Be more like a kite than a helium balloon when trying to track it down.
The one time I did use my setline with success, I anchored one end and had floats in the middle and the other end. For floats, I used 2-liter pop bottles painted orange, with glow sticks. I also fished my two rods at the same time. I did catch one catchfish near the anchored end, so never saw the floats move around. BTW, caught two other cats using a santee rig from shore.
I did try a setline while icefishing at UL a few times. No takers. Harder to deploy under the ice (I used a 10-foot piece of PVC pipe to push the far end away from me under the ice). May toy with it again next winter.
My assessment of the distance is from the shore or surface of the water body, not from the setline itself. So could conceivably deploy a setline, hop in the boat and fish, then return and pick up the setline. However, I'm reluctant to get too far away as a) I don't want anybody getting tangled in it and b) I don't want someone messing with it.
Man, maybe I need to get down to UL this evening...
The one time I did use my setline with success, I anchored one end and had floats in the middle and the other end. For floats, I used 2-liter pop bottles painted orange, with glow sticks. I also fished my two rods at the same time. I did catch one catchfish near the anchored end, so never saw the floats move around. BTW, caught two other cats using a santee rig from shore.
I did try a setline while icefishing at UL a few times. No takers. Harder to deploy under the ice (I used a 10-foot piece of PVC pipe to push the far end away from me under the ice). May toy with it again next winter.
My assessment of the distance is from the shore or surface of the water body, not from the setline itself. So could conceivably deploy a setline, hop in the boat and fish, then return and pick up the setline. However, I'm reluctant to get too far away as a) I don't want anybody getting tangled in it and b) I don't want someone messing with it.
Man, maybe I need to get down to UL this evening...
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j.o.a.t.m.o.n.
jack of all tackle, master of none