How deep are your jugs rigged? We take the grandboys out on the Alabama River south of Montgomery in which I've caught some very nice blues and channels fishing deep channels. Our "jugs" are Noodles with 5' to 10' of line usually fished in creeks off the main river. Sucess has been fair, we always catch fish, but the very first time we did it, the very first jug that started running had a good 20# blue on it and do to the crews inexperience, we lost it (scared the hell out of them, LOL). We use beef liver( comes in flat frozen slices that cut into perfect size cubes and stay on the hook, unlife unprocessed chicken livers) and shad. Tried the Mexican soap some sites promoted but all I had was very clean fish hooks and clean hands. I'm going to use some squid, had good sucess in deep water and shrimp this next spring. Have some 30'+ Noodles rigged now too, saw just too many fish in deep water while running not explore there. Personally biggest fish seen caught on the AL River was in about 1980-81 just below Maxwell AFB in Montgomery. Water was 45' deep with a slope up to the bank, and a bassboat with 8 people! in it came close to us to run a trotline baited with Bream. Conversation went from: we got one > get the net> it won't fit!> to GD it's a (Very big fish in Redneck terms!)>two men lifted a Channel Cat that was at least 30+ pounds in to the boat by the fins.
