Can you use frogs without grass beds/lilly pads?

[spoon33]

I live in Oklahoma and don't fish any grass beds or pads to work a frog through.  Usually use either chug bugs or buzzbaits, something with some sound.  Got a box of H2O frogs for X-mas and want to use them, but wasn't sure how productive they would be in open water.  Do they produce enough sound?  Does lake need to be clear since they might not be as loud?

[MattinOK]

I don't know where in Oklahoma where you are, but down here in SE Oklahoma where most of the water is muddy brown-- lotsa people do good on frogs. However, mostly soft bodies. BTW what part of OK are you from?

[spoon33]

OKC which means I have to travel at least an hour to get to a decent lake.

[backwater4]

Not from the south, but I've fished frogs around laydowns and docke with good success.

[Big Bait Fishing]

frogs can be fished in open water with good success when you use slow sinking plastic frogs like canyon plastics 4.5" frogs , zoom horny toads , rage tail toads , etc... you can run them in shallow flats and let them glide under and give them twitches wich will trigger strikes , run them like buzz baits across mid depth points , even buzz them slowly , causing a nice wake out in deeper water . my favorite place is to run them parallel to tules , just slow enough to cause a gentle wake with twitches and pauses thrown in to trigger bites . another is to actually pitch them up against thick bunches of tules and let the frog sink down to the bottom , sometimes i'll peg a 1/4 oz. weight to get them to swim on the fall . anyhow , just experiment with them and you will find sucess 

[David P]

I use a Snag Proof Perfect frog in open water as much if not more then I do on top of weeds . They're GREAT open water baits. The new Snag Proof Phat frog is a little bigger and some of the colors imitate bait fish. It's just like a spook but not as loud.

[iceintheveins]

From my experience hollow bodied weedless frogs and such baits work much better over weeds, right in cover, or in slop. The buzzing frogs like ribbit frogs work better in open water than the hollow ones. But the buzzing frogs also work in heavy cover too. I think an angler needs to carry and use both.

[J. M. Richardson]

Try a scum frog popper in open water. Has the beauty of a scum frog and the water churning action of a popper, can be fished in weeds or open water depending on your retrieve.

[iceintheveins]

Try a scum frog popper in open water. Has the beauty of a scum frog and the water churning action of a popper, can be fished in weeds or open water depending on your retrieve.

That's one of my favorite frogs. Very soft body means easy hooksets and it doesn't take on water hardly at all.

[Luke at Gouldsboro]

You can use frogs anywhere.