Frog Question

[Mccallister25]

With the weeds and grass getting thicker around the ponds I fish, Iv been using my Booyah pad crasher a lot more recently than ever. I like using it, but I just cant get a good "walk" or rhythm down. Iv heard some people say thats not a huge deal, but I feel that it helps.

I know dragging and hopping the hollow body frogs over grass/pads etc. is a great way to fish these lures, but my question is; where are other ideal places to use them? Has anyone ever gotten bit by just working it in open water?

I plan to take it out with me later, around 8:00, and Id love to get my first fish on it.

[gripnrip]

It does work in open water.  As far as walking goes, just keep practicing and you'll get it down.

[anonbassman]

I find that in order to walk the frog you have to use a much gentler twitch, Almost barely popping the rod to the side. If they are hitting topwater baits, a frog will work just fine even in open water. I've caught a few this way - it also has a greater chance of getting a good hookup.

 

I think the best thing is to pop it kind of quickly over the sloppy stuf and walk it as slow as you can as soon as it hits an open spot in the slop. Trimming the skirts down a little can help as well.

[Grantman83]

You can throw a frog anywhere.  Dean Rojas says he prefer to target fish with a frog, not just use them on pads.  Under overhanging trees, in shady areas along the shore, under or between docks, near laydowns.  I have had fish hit frogs everywhere.  Walking the dog just takes practice.  I would say use a rod with a soft tip otherwise it is alot tougher.  Its also easier to learn on a medium or medium heavy rod.  Not necessarily to use it as a your frog rod, but to practice getting the cadence down. 

[Mccallister25]

Yea, Iv heard a lot of talk about trimming the legs a little. Right now, the legs on mine are as is out of the package. I may try trimming just a tad. I wanna try a new frog anyway. I may go with a Spro.

[buzzfrog]

Trim legs. You can fish one ANY where

[BassinLou]

Just fish it. Do not get caught up on walking it. That will come with time. The area that you are describing sounds like a nice place to fish the frog.

[AK-Jax86]

Practice is the key, as far as open water strikes they happen more often when the frog is still, for me.

[Mccallister25]

What size are you guys using most of the time? Big frogs, or smaller ones?

[MarkH024]

Koppers LiveTarget 65T it is 2.75" in length. Awesome frog.

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

I use mostly the 1/2-5/8oz rated size

 

 

FLIP 'N' THE BIRD                      15.46g         0.544 ounce
IOBEE FROG                              15.46         0.54535
DAHLBERG FROG                      16.32        0.5757
SPRO GREEN TREE                   17.037      0.60095
SPRO MIDNIGHT BLACK           15.187       0.5357
SPRO POPPER LEOPARD         13.952       0.49215
KOPPERS GREEN FROG          18.653       0.65795
KOPPERS BROWN FROG        19.211        0.67765

 

 

[Blues19]

I have a bunch of Spro frogs and have caught fish on them everywhere. i like to throw them under willows or on slop more than anywhere.  I have an Old albino frog that had its legs melt so I replaced them with about 15 strands of a white spinnerbait skirt for each leg.  I dont know why, but that thing will walk the dog like no other. I can jerk my rod hard or soft, doesnt matter, it walks.  Catches a bunch of fish.

[ToadTorcher]

With the weeds and grass getting thicker around the ponds I fish, Iv been using my Booyah pad crasher a lot more recently than ever. I like using it, but I just cant get a good "walk" or rhythm down. Iv heard some people say thats not a huge deal, but I feel that it helps.

 

I find that walking a frog a definitely a little more tricky than walking something like a spook. You need to have allot more slack in your line... The idea is to basically snap the slack in the line and you should get her to walk. I started using them Booyah frogs this year and really like em. I actually find they walk extremely well so it's a good frog to learn on!

 

I know dragging and hopping the hollow body frogs over grass/pads etc. is a great way to fish these lures, but my question is; where are other ideal places to use them? Has anyone ever gotten bit by just working it in open water?

I plan to take it out with me later, around 8:00, and Id love to get my first fish on it.

 

To me the ideal place fish a frog is around matter grass with pads mixed in. On my local lakes you can sling the coontail mats all day but until you find some pads mixed into them you wont get onto them real good! 

 

If I had to give a reason for this I would say it's because the blue gills are by the pads. Why are blue gills by the pads? I think that little flowers on the pads attract little insects that the blue gills eat. Pads = Insects, Insects = Blue gills, Blue gill = Bass. 

 

Cast your frog past the pads and walk it into them. I'll usually pause right at the far end of the mats, any holes in them, and at the near edge of them. 

[AK-Jax86]

A lot of good information people have posted the only thing is you guys are using the wrong type of frogs. I've used most of these and they are no long in my tackle box because these new ones took over... I love em so do big fish

[J Francho]

I get my best frog bites in open water, just outside heavy, emergent slop or pads.  Look for small alcoves in the surface vegetation as ambush points for bass.  If those areas are immediately adjacent to even slightly deeper water, or a channel through the weeds, even better.  Walking a a frog is not necessary, but it is effective.  If you can walk a spook, just dial back the motion by about 75%, and you should get it.  I find a somewhat shorter rod, 6-10 to 7' is a little easier for this.

[MarkH024]

A lot of good information people have posted the only thing is you guys are using the wrong type of frogs. I've used most of these and they are no long in my tackle box because these new ones took over... I love em so do big fish

What exactly are you referring to, as we can't see what's in your tackle box?  

[BassinLou]

AK are you referring to those Ribbit frogs again?? Man, you love those things.

[s freud]

Do you all fish those ribbit frogs like frogs? I bought them as jig trailers...

[BassinLou]

AK fishes them straight on to the hook. AK, I looked at a Ribbit hollow body frog yesterday at BP. They look almost look like Scum frogs. I used those only for a little bit a long time ago.