River2Sea Ld Frog

[fishinthedacks]

I'm sorry to post this if others already have but as I've said before I cant search on my particular windows phone. This isn't the most user friendly forum for my phone but I like the people and the site. I have been testing out a lot of my soft bodies frogs in my predator fish tank (no I don't let them bite but like to see what makes them the most excited) and this frog creates a TON of excitement. I put this one in a 150 gallon tank with the best frogs from spro, reaction strike, snag proof, strike king, lunker hunter etc and this with the lunker hunter generate the most "strikes" (they dont have mouths big enough to snag a hook - but again these arent bass just predatorial fish) But the River 2 Sea Larry Dhalberg hard bodied frog seems to be a monster. I've never used a hard body before and I like to believe this will be a hit. It sits well in the water, the design is great, Has anyone actually used it?

 

Is this a bait to catch me or the fish?

[Montanaro]

I have...not particularly weedless and it's fragile. Takes practice to work it right and is a big profile bait which gives me little confidence

[frogflogger]

I have one - haven't tried it yet - I wouldn't have given it a second look but Larry Dahlberg is a fishing guru and one of the  greatest innovators in fishing lures we have at present.

[kickerfish1]

I bought 3 of them a few years back. Worked them pretty diligently on several ocassions when the frog bite was on. Results were less than convincing. Tried both the brownish and greenish colors and fish did not seem to be all that interested. Really didn't want to believe that they didn't work so I tried them on private waters as well. Had several good blow ups on the bait but no fish were landed.

A few things about the bait. The concept and design is great. You combine the action of a soft bait with weight and rigidity of a hard bait. The problem lies in the legs which can wear easy. Though I didn't land any the legs are very fragile and made of a plastic material which can't be combined with other plastics. You can buy some replacement legs if you feel you may need or want them.

The jury is still out for me. I will run them again this year in the summer to see if the results are any different.

I probably prefer your standard spro frogs or zoom horny toads as separate frog offerings at this point.

[fishinthedacks]

I love the look of them and hope they work so I can have a cool looking frog from a great mind and more importantly one thats works great. I just look at so many other soft bodied frogs that just seem to be more effective. As high as the hook sets up I worry about the hook up ratio but we will see. The crawfish on the other looks like it would be impossible for it not to work. It did worry me when I saw that it can't be kept with other baits. I'll put it back in it's box but if I'm fishing heavy or a tourny and put it back in the box I'm worried about hook rust over time but from what I've heard the legs wont last long enough to worry about it and legs costing half the price of the frog I'd probably just replace the frog. I have a white one which tends to work great around here so we'll see.