Ribbit Frog Setup

[GaterB]

Anyone ever have any trouble with ribbit frogs flipping over on the retrieve? Im fishing them with braid and a 4/0 ewg hook, and about half of the time they flip over and cruise on their backside when I reel them in. This is annoying since I bought them for the color on the belly. Could it be the type of hook I'm using? Or possibly the braid size (30 lb).

 

p.s. I have the smaller size ribbit frogs (if that maybe makes a difference)

[rbreedi1]

I use the stanley double take hooks and haven't had any rolling problems.. check them out.

[SwampLife]

X2 on the double take hooks.

[Chris at Tech]

It happens...

More weight on the keel should help. Either a double hook or a single keel-weighted hook should help

[webertime]

Put the frog on such that frog bows down a bit between the line tie and where you insert the hook. Use a heavy gauge (gammy superline) hook too. I use floating white ribbits exclusively, they fish the same regardless.

[Packard]

Good advice above. I use a light keel-weighted hook to solve this issue.

[Marty]

I use the regular size and they seem to roll over less than some other brands, such as Sizmic, but they still do roll over. I don't care for it but it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of difference. Maybe I'll try a keel weight.

[GaterB]

Thanks for all the advice! Gonna try all that was listed and figure out what works best

[Hanover_Yakker]

The Ribbits (along with other brands) do flip over from time to time.  The keel weighted approach helps a lot, as do the double take hooks.  After several frogs had their legs ripped off from aggressive fish, the double take hooks may cause the legs to rip.  After three or fours Ribbits were destroyed using those style hooks, I opted to not use them anymore - just a personal preference.  When the Ribbit flips on it's back, I simply give the rod a little vertical pop-pop-pop twitching and the frog will right itself.  Bowing the frog helps some like mentioned earlier, but the popping of the rod fixes it for me.