Need a new walking frog recommendation

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My favorite and the one that stays tied on all the time is the Booyah Poppin' Pad Crasher. If you just twitch-twitch it, it walks easily. But you can occasionally give it a pop. It seems to get noticed on the pads better for me. Believe me, it takes a little time to get the knack of walking a frog. But I catch a lot more right off the top of the pads than I do in open water. The ones I do catch in open water usually attack the bait before I start a retrieve. 

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2 hours ago, pauldconyers said:

Well I had my first experience fishing a frog this evening. Based upon recommendations I bought two of the Spro Bronze Eye frogs. The midnight walker model and the albino white. I didn't catch anything but I think it had more to do with the pond I was at. I am sure it is somewhat acquired skill but I do not think I working the lure correctly at all. The reason I say that the YouTube videos I have watched of frogs being walked looks like while they are coming back to the angler that they are kind of jerking back and forth to the right and left kind of dancing. When I tried kind of twitching the rod as I retrieved it it looked more like a swimmer doing the butterfly stroke, the head kept kind of popping up out of the water. Twitching my 7 foot rod from the bank was not the easiest thing, I found I could do just as good doing a herky-jerky retrieve on my reel and get the exact same affect of what my rod twitching was doing. What advice would you give me to do this properly? Perhaps a video link?

The best advice I can give for fishing a frog is to use it at a place with a lot of weeds or other vegetation. You'll get a lot more bites on and around that vegetation than in the open water. The "walk" won't matter that much on the mat because you're just making fish aware of its presence. I had a frog for years before I ever caught anything on it because I was fishing a sand and mud bottom lake that was devoid of weeds. They'll also work well around laydowns, stumps and docks. They're a presentation that needs to be used around specific shallow cover, not as much in open water. Whenever you see a mixture of these covers, like say, a log around some lilies or weeds at the base of a dock, throw the frog. It works better at the edge, so throw it up on the bank if you can and have it drop in and surprise bass. It's a stealthy critter and you'll be amazed how shallow fish will be even in summer.

 

I got tired of the big lake rat race and bought a kayak and started fishing ponds and smaller bodies of water. The frog excels in shallow places where the fish are looking up. And if you see a fish chase bait around vegetation, always throw a frog at it. Lastly, they'll work better in the morning and evening than high noon. Of course, that's just a generality, not a rule so don't hesitate to throw it anytime conditions are right.