How to Fish for Sunfish

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Sunfish are found throughout the U.S. and are a very popular sport fish.  They are abundant and easy to catch making them the perfect fish for anyone from a first time fisherman to an advanced angler.  A Sunfish will take almost any bait, put up a good fight, and taste great in the frying pan.

Jug Fishin'

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There are a lot of ways to catch catfish. You can try noodling, putting some really stinking bait on the line, or just hope one swims into your hook and you get lucky, but have you tried jugging?

A friend told us about it, and why not? It sounded pretty fun! Kids aren't exactly the best candidates for noodling and they wanted to join in as well.

It all kind of started because we had some ponds on our property. Whilst fishing we had once in a while snagged a carp on our hook and had a good sport of fighting the big guy for an hour or more, then letting him go till next time. One day while thinking about the catfish that were in there and thought, you know, that could be fun! We'd often had people tell us about the catfish they'd had the other night for supper and wanted to try some. Then they suggested jugging.....

Jugging is interesting, and perhaps widely known, but we'd never heard of it. Basically you get an empty plastic bottle (such as a milk jug) and tie a nice long bit of strong fishing line to it. At the end you fix a fairly large sized hook and the stinkiest bait you can find (we were told to use cat food). That night you throw it out into the pond...and that's it.