Frog Fishing

[jignfule]

Where are you fishing that you get 18 blow ups in a day?

Just curious, do you consider 18 "blow ups" a day a lot ?

[Bass newb]

Just curious, do you consider 18 "blow ups" a day a lot ?

I've never even heard of that around my lake. I can fish 4 hours and get 4 or 5 "blow ups". Where are these 18 from? My experienced buddies fished all day a few weeks ago for a tourney and got a single 1.5lb fish for weigh in. I've caught 3 good fish in 1.5hours as my personal best. 5.5lbs total. Usually I catch 0 to 2 fish in 2-4 hours of fishing.

I know it's not just me either... a tournament at Lake Guntersville last week had a winner of 21lbs in 2 days...my buddy took sixth with 17lbs. On day two they only caught 2 keeper fish...a 5lb and a 2lb. This lake is supposed to be 6th best in the nation for bass. Another guy basically got skunked in 5he tourney. Where are people catching all these fish? Lake Guntersville, Lake Logan Martin, and Henry Neely aren't seeing big fish numbers.

You're telling me that Idaho has the bass?

[jignfule]

I've never even heard of that around my lake. I can fish 4 hours and get 4 or 5 "blow ups". Where are these 18 from? My experienced buddies fished all day a few weeks ago for a tourney and got a single 1.5lb fish for weigh in. I've caught 3 good fish in 1.5hours as my personal best. 5.5lbs total. Usually I catch 0 to 2 fish in 2-4 hours of fishing.

I know it's not just me either... a tournament at Lake Guntersville last week had a winner of 21lbs in 2 days...my buddy took sixth with 17lbs. On day two they only caught 2 keeper fish...a 5lb and a 2lb. This lake is supposed to be 6th best in the nation for bass. Where are people catching all these fish? Lake Guntersville, Lake Logan Martin, and Henry Neely aren't seeing big fish numbers.

You're telling me that Idaho has the bass?

KEEP THAT QUITE. I lie not. My son and I had a day this year where we both caught over fifty a piece on frog. The largest being 5.5#. Just last week I had an afternoon where I caught 9, seven of them two to three pounders. I've always wanted to fish the south. I love that part of the country. I'm sure you guys catch some monsters. Sound like we've been blessed with some pretty good frog fishing.

[68camaro]

I went out and had 4 blowups in little over an hour but didn't catch any, but it is exciting when they take that frog. The closest one I almost landed had to be huge because with 50b braid I had to tighten drag and lost fish when I stopped reeling to do this.  I had Dobyns 735c rod and thing thing was bent.....I can;t wait to get back down their, hopefully tonight.

[Bass newb]

I just threw my frog last night and as soon as it hit the water on one cast it was quietly consumed. ..i was so surprised /in disbelief that my hookset was really weak...i was kinda just testing the line...and yep...there was a fish on it...and I lost him!

But that only happens a few times in 2 hours...not a dozen like some of these guys are saying.

I bet some folks would smoke the competition in some of our tournaments. 50 blow ups in a day surely would yield a big bag of fish.

[gardnerjigman]

For me to throw a frog for 2-4 hours and catch "0-2" fish would never happen. I wouldn't even have a frog rigged up if that was the norm. Around here, when the frog bite is on, it can be back to back casts. 

[Bass newb]

For me to throw a frog for 2-4 hours and catch "0-2" fish would never happen. I wouldn't even have a frog rigged up if that was the norm. Around here, when the frog bite is on, it can be back to back casts.

15 minutes of jig, 15 minutes worm, 15 min spook, move, 30 min toad, 30 min frog, 15 min spook, move, 30 min toad, 15 min jig move 30 min frog- 2 bites. .. under the bridge drop shot 20 min, go home.

That's about what yesterday looked like. Two bites came from a frog. No bite on anything else. I'm having trouble finding bites outside of the 6pm to 7pm hours. I have a few 5pm bites, but my fishing gets done from 3 or 4 pm to 7 or 8pm and the bites only seem to come at 6ish.

Forgot to add the 15min of crankbait.

[gardnerjigman]

Yah. We are in that tough part of the fall transition here (for LMB anyways). Give it a week or so. It'll heat back up.

[BassinLou]

I just threw my frog last night and as soon as it hit the water on one cast it was quietly consumed. ..i was so surprised /in disbelief that my hookset was really weak...i was kinda just testing the line...and yep...there was a fish on it...and I lost him!

But that only happens a few times in 2 hours...not a dozen like some of these guys are saying.

I bet some folks would smoke the competition in some of our tournaments. 50 blow ups in a day surely would yield a big bag of fish.

 

Whenever a frog is thrown, keep your attention to the water. Til this day it still happens to me. Take your eye off the frog for a moment, fish strikes, you look, set, fish gone. The slurps are those kind of hits that are tough to see depending on the time of day. It looks like a little toilet bowl flush and your frog disappears. You see that, set the hook!! Most of the time for me, those kind of hits are really nice bass. Keep at it.