Hey Guys what does everyone use for jug weights, besides the obvious window weights and rocks lol, i want something i can wrap my line around when i have them out of the water

rebar?

I use casting weight leads on my free floating jugs (the old lead ones, not the newer plastic ones) and for my stationary jugs I use about a red solo cup as a mold and put concrete in it with either a little chain link sticking up or something like that. That is about 1.5-2 pounds of weight and all you need plus cheap. Another option is to use some decent diameter pvc, fill it with concrete and drill a hold through one end of the PVC so you can attach the bottom of your jug via snap swivle to the PVC concrete weight.. Thats probably the way I will do it from now on because the pvc makes it protected plus super cheap and easy.

Save your M/T water bottles, drink bottles and then buy you a bag of Quik-cret cut the water bottles at the edge where the neck starts. Then mix some Q-C up and fill the bottle but leave about 1/2 inch not filled take piece of wire bend a U in it then push it down in the mix.After it dries take a heat gun or a propane torch and apply heat to the unfilled part of the bottle.As you do this the top will act as a shrink wrap around the top of your weight and your ready. They will store neatly in a milk crate or a box.

Small bar-bells from Wally World. $1.00 per pound. Work great!!

I also use the 1 pound dumbbells from academy.

+1 I like the purple ones!!

I've done what tatepop has done for years. But I did buy the dumbells at wally world the other day to try out. When the boy's were young they would pick out something from the junk iron pill. They would get so excited if we caught a fish on there jug.

I use rail road spikes. I made my jugs from 1" pvc and a spike will slide down the pvc perfect.

oh, for catfish, ok.

Chinese made Abu reels.

I like the bricks with holes in them. Use a clip on the end of the line, run it through the hole. When you pull them in the bricks unclip and stack nicely.

I use bricks as well, but wrap the line around the jug, not the brick.

As for weights, be it juglines, throwlines, or trotlines, I make mine with a "tumbler" (smaller variety of a soft plastic or vinyl drinking cup). Make sure it is slightly flexible. I add concrete, as well as use a "U" shape piece of thick galvanized wire, such as cut from old bucket handles or the bottom wire of chain link fences, as well as snips of chain link fences (galvanized). Be sure & turn the ends of the "U" either to an "L" or "J" (like a hook), so it will stay in the concrete. Then pierce a triangle slot on each side just below the top to tie some cord across to the "U". This enables you to keep the vinyl cup protector for the concrete to prevent concrete scuffs or broken concrete. If the adhesiveness fails, you do not lose or pollute the lake or river with plastic, by the safety cord. Do not fill completely, so that you can have room for the slits. Plus, with the extra amount of the tumbler not filled with concrete, you will get an inkling or sampling of what is below, mud, or ore, or such.

You can even use smaller soft vinyl containers, such as the smaller Blue Bell pints. Anyway, then I tie a cord from the "U" about 2 feet long. I tie this cord to my loop on my main line, be it any of the set lines. If I am in a hurry when I pull lines, I just slice the 2 foot cord (below the loop) & later add a double knot to it before or during the next round (plus remove & properly discard the "remainder" in the trash (not the lake or river).

Naturally, on Juglines, Throwlines, or Set Hooks, I will use one weight only. If I set jugs out nearer the larger or deeper portion of the lake, I may use larger tumblers to slow the Cats down a bit. Or to help hold the jug in an area better. But for trotlines, I will use from the minimum of 3 to the maximum of 7 for my 36 hook set up. Along with water bottles. The weights to pull them down to the bottom, but the water bottles with just a slight amount of air to raise them up, so the main line is at a certain depth off bottom, which of course sets where your hook & leader is.

On my "Planter" trotlines, for out in the middle of the lake (nothing out there to tie to), I use two anchors (which are much larger- a 3.5 gallon bucket with about 60 to 72 pounds of concrete in them). That's another story.

I'm always afraid to use heavy weight on my jug lines because I'm afraid they may go into deeper water and sink my jugs. I use PVC and a water noodle (like for kids in a swimming pool) with a weight so you know when you've gotten a bite. I think 1 pound would sink them.

Most of the time, in my experience, they head for shallow water, but I would sure hate to have that catfish go deep and not be able to retrieve him because it sunk my jug. So he's just stuck there with a hook...

Any insight into this from you experts out there?