I know for a fact some of mine have been stolen. Nothing worse than a thief. No different stealing someones juglines, or cutting them up, than if someone stole your stuff or vandalized your gear/equipment. If it is legally marked, leave it alone period. If it is not legally marked, report it to the game warden. Sometimes the weights break off and the jugs drift way out of range. Part of it. Don't judge a man who does things the right way, or accuse all from the ignorance of a few. Nothing pisses me off more than someone running my juglines. Yes, I can tell...the hooks are tangled up in each other from someone yanking up and down on them real quick to see if a fish is on it. A thief is a thief. If you want to catch some catfish on juglines, invest the time, money, and effort into making your own, and then the time required to run them and bait them. Chicken you know whats see a jog bobbing, and steal other people's fish all the time. Rediculous.

Because alot of jugs that I have run into are obviously floating trash, left for days, and usually with dead rotting fish on them.. Irresponsible, no talent, redneck meat haulers have no business leaving their garbage in the same waters conservationists pay to protect.. Thats why.

Spend your efforts going after the people at Tawakoni who clean fish 24/7 at Tawakoni. They have to be commercial fishermen. Ask the guides there...they will confirm it. Occasionally, a jugline gets away. I lost one over spring break at Tawakoni. Not because I gave up on it, because we drove all over the lake looking for it. Difference is, mine are marked...and always will be. You can go to any lake in Texas and see juglines set up wrong...wrong colored jugs, not marked, etc...I leave them alone. They are not mine to touch. You obviously haven't ran juglines before...if you did, you just might change your opinion. There are idiots everywhere...and sometimes they run in kayaks too...

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If a jug is obviously old like with moss growing on it, I will pick it up. No sense in having hooks out there for a kid to get hooked on when it gets shallow or hooking fish to die.

There is obviously not enough GW out there to take care of a lot of stuff such as this. Everybody talks about not wanting more restrictions/laws but then fuss when we try and take care of stuff ourselves when something is obviously wrong.

I find em floatin with moss on the line and jugg imma cut em out and trash em too! If they have been there long enough to get moss on em then you are leaving them unattended more than the rules stipulate tagged right or not! Thats not stealing! No one should have to clean up after other peoples bad manners! I jugg with my son cause he wants to but we track them all down before we leave the water that day! I don't think its too hard to ask others to be just as responsible!

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Someone touches one of my jugs and I see or know. with or without a fish on it hes gonna catch a beatin. You dont know when it was checked last.U could see it in the same spot for 2 months it could be checked 10 mins before or after you leave..someone cutting my jug is like me breaking your poles..(Irresponsible, no talent, redneck meat haulers have no business leaving their garbage in the same waters conservationists pay to protect)#1 No talent I know a 3 guys off the top of my head who have caught many fish R&R who jug fish so thats not true at all..#2 Id love to catch ya around one of my jugs.

Bro you did the right thing. Don't feel like you owe an apology. If one of my boys ever get away from us I would hope another real fishermen would handle business like you did!

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The jug I came upon in the middle of the lake was a 3" PVC pipe a foot and a half long with caps on the end. That can do some damage to a boat, and I don't want mine or someone else's boat getting damaged. I don't have a problem with jug fishing, it's legal, go fish. It was obvious that somene took the time to make it and does not want to lose it, but accidents happen. There was not a name or contact info on it, so I cut the lines, let the fish go and put it in the trash at the marina. That is why I messed with someone else's jug line, "PERIOD".

Im not saying You did wrong bud..If a fish is floating fixing to die I understand letting him go to save that fish...Im saying that Todd C is wrong.. going to grab one bc it looks old or isnt marked..thats what the GW for.That is theft..in my mind no different then someone taking something form my boat or house...=PaIn