PURPOSE: A fish pot holding device is provided to enable a user to easily and continuously hang a fish pot on a prong of a main line by automatically opening nipples of the fish pot. CONSTITUTION: The fish pot holding device consists of a fish pot guiding stand(30) for supplying fish pots in turn; a fish pot loading part provided on the one end of the fish pot guiding stand for lifting and loading the transferred fish pots one by one; and an opening driving part for making nipples of the fish pot to be automatically opened by moving a slider of the fish pot stacked on the fish pot loading part, thus connecting the fish pot to a prong of a main line.