Catfish jug lines
 

I went on Lacassine refuge today bass fishing. Looks like some one had been in the canal at sometime catfishing and left there foam jug lines behind. I can see how this will end up being band on refuge.

Went a few weeks ago bass fishing in the duck pond and someone had jugs every where thought it was illegal?

It's legal but these looked like they had been there awhile. They were covered in slime.

i fish alot of jugs. it is my understanding that they have to be manned, just like a gill net.

i hate it when trashy people leave jugs out. it is my pet peave, and i fish up to several hundred at a time. i fish, then i pick them up. no good comes out of leaving them out.

i'm also the guy who will pass some lead at you if you try to raise my juglines, so unless you want a confrintation, catch your own fish and leave mine alone. lol

it always amazes me how a guy in a 80k$ boat will risk his life to steal a 3$ catfish.

i thought jugs on refuge/wma was not legal. i know u ain't supposed to on marsh island.

10 jugs per boat on refuge.

To my understanding they are illegal inside the impoundment but I could be wrong

So I can fish them inside streeters around the duck pond and surrounding area?

Yes hey all legal all over streeters. Only reason I picked up one was I wanted to see how long they had been there. Most were up on bank or tangled in grass.

Lmao all these years I thought it was illegal I'm going to have to go try my luck on them big far in there. Thanks papa for clearing that up for me.

I would for sure find some more info on it before just goin to do it in streeters and be clear on the rules

i sure would like to drop 10 jugs in marsh island on my way to the reefs !!

It being legal to have jugs on the refuge is news to me. I have always been told that you can't even have them in possession while traveling on the refuge.

You can throw jugs in Streeter.

I found in the Louisiana regulations that: Trotlines, juglines, trammel and gill nets and traps are prohibited on the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, and Marsh Island Refuge for sure. I haven't looked in the Federal Refuge regs yet but I would be willing to bet that they are the same.

your right. streeters only. no one seems to know exactly what streeters is either. they think that whole are is streeters. streeters is the canal that connects mermentau to lacassine bayou. you can jug in there ONLE bc its a state waterway. every side canal is a refuge waterway. its ALL in the pamphlet

The ones who were fishing the Duck Pond with jugs a few weeks ago, think they know everything. When told that they were in violation one wanted to argue with the guy across from them, so he let them be, but they didn't get caught.

Ok found what I was looking for. Jugline fishing is allowed on Sabine but not on Lacassine.
"Fishing is permitted with rod and reel
or pole and line only on Cameron Prairie
and Lacassine NWR’s. Sabine NWR
permits jug fishing in designated areas in
addition to rod and reel and pole and line
fishing. See refuge specific regulations."

You can read all about in here. It plainly states it on the first page.


http://www.fws.gov/southeast/pubs/SWLAcomplex_Fish.pdf

The one who were jugging in the Duck Pond can also read this, but they were told about it already

The jugs in the one mile canal are still there. Would bet they are not coming back for them. They have to be over 20.

I don't know exactly what you call the one mile canal but I know from the start of Streeters at Mermentau to Lacassine Lake there was only 1 on the way in and when I passed back it was gone, but I left one somewhere in the lake, that I couldn't find. Maybe the boat that passed before I got back to the mouth of Streeters at Lacassine might of needed more than me.

What amazes me more is how someone states that they are willing to do life in prison or face the death penalty because someone in a 80k$ boat stole his 3$ catfish. Do you honestly think that the judge would rule that you did the right thing by killing someone because he took your fish off a jug line that probably doesn't even have your name on it? Of course I know this is the internet and you are only passing lead across the keyboard. ;);)

The one mile is the canal across bayou from streeters canal.

Looking for a cheap but affective weight/anchor solution not running more than 10 if that changes how I should weight them