pad crasher is all i buy. I use the regular one and then started to use the popper version and never went back to the regular frog no matter how heavy the cover.
I use a solid black, translucent black, and green top white bottom frog. I take a white or black marker and put spots on the bottoms and put a few small glass beads inside the bodies for rattles.
Fish really only see the bottom of the frog so the top colors dont matter to me just the bottoms.
Then i cut an inch off of the tails, bend the hooks away from the body which requires a small vicegrip because i pull them a good ways away from the frog body.
Look at my frogs and see that i pull the hook an 1/8 inch away from body, i started doing this after many missed hits, i wait a couple seconds after the hit and then set the hook and i feel my hookups has greatly improved.
It goes through cover great with the hooks out and very rarely do i get a little piece of something caught on the hook.