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I was curious how you guys do out on the big lakes. Do Barkley or Kentucky get much jug fishing traffic through the summer nights? How bout trotlining? Anyone know anything about Clark river? How is the access? Used to trotline a small river back in Illinois when we were up there and would love to get back into it down here.
Chris
Haven't done it in a couple of years. But have had some great trips. We would take the cooker and fry up some and set around the fire while the jugs were out.. Check them about every 30 min or so. We would go from around 6pm till 10 or 11. Didn't do the all nighters. Not alot of traffic out there. Trotlines are great option too. Be sure and check the regs. on jugging and trotlines. They have changed some..
I usually pull all nighters myself when running jugs. Trotlines I try to set up somewhere closer to home so I can run it everyday, but I have been known to toss one out on an all night jug trips. Checked the regs and they are about the same as I am used to, so nothing different there. The lake side fish fry sounds like a good time man....I fish alone most of the time and setting up a fryer for one just doesn't make sense so I usually do bologna sandwiches. Nothing like seeing a jug bobbing and weaving running up on it and having it disappear under the boat!
Chris
Never done much good after 11 pm till around 4-5 am. Don't know anything about Clark's river
My brother and I set about 12 jugs last spring that we got from Buffalo.
We fished 4-5 hours in the afternoon and my brother had 14 nice fish.
That is if you think catfish are nice fish. My brother had a blast fightin the big one.
I would have rather been catching crappie. That makes me HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY.
Nothing wrong with some crappie, but after the spawn is over its time to chase cats! All summer long I can always catch catfish without much work....nice, relaxing, lazy fishing. Toss out some jugs, set a trotline, lean back in the boat and listen to the quiet summer night on the lake. My biggest cat so far was a 26 lb. blue cat on a trotline. When the river is up and rolling and there is a rather unhappy 26 lb cat on the end of the line things get interesting real quick! Never could get into any big flatheads, but pulled quite a few 10 lb. fish out of the Kaskaskia.
Chris
I love to jug fish, a lot of times i will throw them out and fish for crappie and when one bounces i go get it. Where did you fish on Kaskaskia? I grew up in St. Libory, near Fayetteville. I crappie fish all year long on Cordell Hull.
We lived on the far east side of Belleville just off of route 15. I launched at Fayetteville some, but most of the time I went down to the marina at New Athens. Most of the time I would run north toward Fayetteville, though the last year we were up there I caught the most fish just south of the bridge by the marina. I also did some fishing down by Baldwin. I loved that river, except when the morons in ski boats showed up during the summer. Caught a lot of fish out of the Kaskaskia. Now that I am down here in Kentucky the only thing I miss is that river.
Chris