Lake Travis Blues

[rut-ro]

How deep are you fishing ?

[TP3]

How deep are you fishing ?

My lines are 25 to 30 feet long with a staging every 5 feet and window weight anchor. Over 50% of the fish I catch are Under The Jug on the first staging. But sometimes the big ones will come off the lower stagings. I will set it so that it drifts up against a bank or across a point.

[thewalt]

nice catch

[JHarrell89]

Oh jimmy


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[Coup de Grace]

Yes sir.

[RR 314]

There are some big ones as well. . .

Little guy loves hitting Travis in the winter.

[RiverRat1]

Nice one. I had the Travis records for blue and flathead caught on R&R and I caught them 7 days apart. Both records have been beat since then though

Here's the blue.

http://www.aa-fishing.com/tx/texas-articles.html

[Stark]

Good catch!

[TP3]

Well we have had zero time to do anything but work since deer season ended. I finally decided enough was enough and put the boat in the water.

We put out 15 jugs Saturday morning and picked them up Sunday afternoon. Caught 9 each day, but the biggest fish were all caught Sunday.

Largest was 16 lbs, several between 6-8. The boat ran fine, and we mostly avoided all the bad weather. Not bad for $4 worth of chicken hearts.

[merlin]

solid catch

[TXJIM]

Somebody post a pic of your jug setup. It's been about 30 years since I ran jugs as a kid and that was out of a jon boat on a 4 acre farm pond. We would just tie line around the neck of a 2 liter Coke bottle and bait a hook on the other end. We couldn't circle that pond fast enough to keep up

[TP3]

I don't have a picture, but post #17 describes the way I do it. No swivels, just overhand loop knots.

I am a big believer in circle hooks, I use them exclusively.

[simek]

Well done!

[rtp]

Somebody post a pic of your jug setup. It's been about 30 years since I ran jugs as a kid and that was out of a jon boat on a 4 acre farm pond. We would just tie line around the neck of a 2 liter Coke bottle and bait a hook on the other end. We couldn't circle that pond fast enough to keep up

Google images for jug line set up. You will get all the pics and instruction to build them you need. Fun stuff.

[lab man]

Good eating size.