Hey everyone- I do a good amount of frog fishing and have always tied a palomar knot in either the 40lb or 50lb braid that I'm using. Seems to have worked well in the sense that it's held up to many vicious strikes and lots of strain while hauling in bass covered in weeds. I always fish frogs in very dense cover, so the walking motion people often impart on the lure doesn't seem very important for me to produce strikes, what does seem important is producing a good deal of surface disturbance by making quick rips of the hollow bodied frog along the surface. That being said however, I'd like to try and improve my success rate in more sparsely vegetated areas, and I feel as if a good way to do this is by walking the frog along the surface. Problem is I've never had good success in getting my frogs to walk well at all (I use the Livetarget frogs). Would tying a knot similar to the rapala loop knot that I occasionally use on a topwater plug help the frog to walk better? I only have experience using loop knots in monofilament, and am worried that the knot may tie poorly in braid, especially compared to the palomar which has been rock solid.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Does anyone use loop knots when fishing hollow bodied frogs?
