Walking A Frog?

[SpencerLittle]

For the life of me I can not make a hollow body frog walk. I can use the technique like a champ with spooks and sexy dawgs. What is different about it that I don't know. I feel I could be very successful with them where I fish just can't seem to do it. PLEASE HEEEELLLLPPP.

[Catch and Grease]

Same here, I can walk them but not good at all but when I go to a spook I can do it with my eyes closed...

[kcdinkerz]

i dont think frogs were made to walk like spooks and poppers but i may be wrong. most of my bites have been from a slow retrieve with twitches or a fast jerking motion with rod tip down. i like a 7mh fast or ex fast rod, mono line

[Avalonjohn44]

Trim one of the legs to be shorter than the other. I heard it helps, though I haven't tried it myself.

[BassinLou]

A frog can walk as similar to a spook, it's going to take some practice but it can be done. You have to twitch the frog half, to three quarters, the twitch of that of a spook. Its very short twitch. Once you get the hang of it, you can walk it just like a spook without trimming one leg. Practice, and patience. 

[Catch and Grease]

Trim one of the legs to be shorter than the other. I heard it helps, though I haven't tried it myself.

Can some more people back this up?? I would like to know it works before I go chopping up my lures lol

[Jrob78]

Walking a frog requires a different rod movement than walking a Spook or Sammy.  Like BassinLou said, it's a shorter, faster twitch.  It definitely take some practice but once you get the hang of it, it will be easy.  Start off with a shorter, lighter rod if you have one.  Big heavy flipping sticks are more difficult to use.

[tcbass]

Same. I tried short sweeps last night.....all the frog did was bob, bob, bob.

 

 

 

Ugh.

[iabass8]

A frog can walk as similar to a spook, it's going to take some practice but it can be done. You have to twitch the frog half, to three quarters, the twitch of that of a spook. Its very short twitch. Once you get the hang of it, you can walk it just like a spook without trimming one leg. Practice, and patience. 

This is exactly right. 

 

A frog can be walked identically to a spook but requires a different movement. 

[ww2farmer]

It's hard for me to explain, but easy to do. I trim the legs, but not any of this "one side shorter" nonsense, I take an inch or so off each on and keep them even. It also depends on the type of frog, some are "easier" to make walk than others, but they pretty much all can do it. If it helps, these are the ones I have, or have had and my rankings on which take the least amount of effort to make walk well.

 

#1 SK KVD Sexy Frog

 

#2 Booyah Pad Crasher

 

#3 Spro Popping bronze eye

 

#4 Regular Spro bronze eye

 

#5 Snag Proof Bobby's perfect frog.

[Drewski73]

Pretend theres a snare drum 2 inches above the water. Start your rod about 2 inches above that imaginary drum and try to tap it with your rod tip, immediately returning the tip to where it started. Its not a "sweep" at all, merely a tap, returning slack into the line immediately. I can walk frogs as well as spooks. It just took more time to learn to walk the frog.

[MCS]

No one said u need to walk a frog to catch fish either....y'all are over thinking the wrong part...it is all about where you SHOULD throw the frog and if you got enough balls to throw it there. Once you understand that and do it you won't need more than a twitch or two before you set the hook

[BassinLou]

Same. I tried short sweeps last night.....all the frog did was bob, bob, bob.

 

 

 

Ugh.

 

You need a little bit of slack. They are not sweeps, they are very light taps and twitches. If the frog just bobbed, power it down to 50% with some slack and you will start to see the frog sway to the side. Continue that cadence and you will begin a walking pattern. Keep at it, it takes time, and persistency. 

[Zach P]

A couple easy steps to walk a frog: 1. give the frog some slack in your line when you twitch your rod tip 2. trim the legs a little 3. practice 4. practice 5. practice 6. repeat steps 3 to 5 for as long as it takes lol. Trust me it's not something you can just do. It takes some time to get the hang of it!

[hookset on 3]

The BR members have given you some great tips on how to get the hang of this technique.

All I would like to say, is that if you only look at your rod tip while twitching the frog along it seems to really help in getting a rhythm going.

Give it a try.

Tony

[WIGuide]

You can definitely walk a frog. It's a shorter downward twitch than it is with most hard top water lures. If you're using braid like you should be with a frog, you need to remember there is no stretch from the line so you need to give the bait slack immediately following the twitch. This will allow the bait to swing back around. If you fail to give the bait slack, it the front will swing towards the direction you pulled it but with no slack it doesn't allow it to keep moving past center. It will also make have the result that it sounds like you're having. Lastly take a look at the frog you're using. There are some on the market that just aren't designed to walk at all (even though you can still get them to a little) but there are others that are easier to walk than others. The Booyah Pad Crasher has been one of the easiest I've found that will walk with ease. I'd suggest you give them a try. Keep with it and keep practicing, you'll get it down!  

[dday07]

Not much for walking frogs...i hear using a loop knot helps somewhat.

[MT2]

I normaly first take my frog by the "butt" and let the legs fall and trim them even with the nose of the frog. Then I'll trim one leg just a touch shorter, most of the times you wont even notice it. In all honestly I probably dont even need to do that but when you find something that works, regardless if it really helps or is just one of those mental things you stick with it. Now when I first really tried walking the frog I had nightmares about learning this, seemed impossible. For me, it helped to keep a eye on my line and make sure I had a little slack in the line on the twitch. Not alot but just enough to get the frogs nose to turn when I twitched the rod. And once I get got it going Id take my index finger and use it like a metronome tapping on the rod to keep my timing. Much like most of us will do listening to good music with our leg. 

[Sam]

Pros will cut the leg strands on one leg shorter than the other to help make the frog walk.

Just a suggestion.

[Fishes in trees]

What made my frogs easier to walk was not tying direct to the frog, but rather putting a heavy duty oval split ring on the frog hook and tying to the split ring.  Also, I went to a shorter rod.  A 7' heavy action rod where I had been using a 7'9" Fenwick AETOS heavy action rod.

[TTS]

It takes a little practice, but easy once you get the hang of it.  Best and easiest for me by far is a Spro Bronze Eye Shad.  Real wide swing with these.  Tom

[Kevin22]

One other tip for walking anything...... If you are in a boat try to keep it as still as possible. Drifting while walking can be hard if you are just learning.