What frog should I buy?

[long island basser]

44 minutes ago, CroakHunter said:

Can't wait to throw my kaera, with that small profile but still at 1/2 ounce it should be money

Exactly ^

Have a few of these already, very nice frog.

Should be a big hit in my waters.

[CroakHunter]

15 minutes ago, long island basser said:

Exactly ^

Have a few of these already, very nice frog.

Should be a big hit in my waters.

I'm not big on color being a factor, but aren't the paint jobs sweet?

[J.Vincent]

The Pad Crasher is darn good and probably one of the best on the market, in this category of lures .

[MassYak85]

I find the pad crashers a little light for their size, but if your rod can cast them well I would just stick with them. The spro's are tougher (thicker "walls") and more durable but IMO the hookups suffer as a result, they also a little heavier and easier to cast because of this. 

[RPreeb]

2 hours ago, MassYak85 said:

I find the pad crashers a little light for their size, but if your rod can cast them well I would just stick with them. The spro's are tougher (thicker "walls") and more durable but IMO the hookups suffer as a result, they also a little heavier and easier to cast because of this. 

Is this why I've seen videos of guys bending the hooks out a little so that the hook set isn't quite as dependent on collapsing the body?

[LxVE Bassin]

8 hours ago, RichF said:

I'm a Spro guy 100% and I fish a frog A LOT.  I've used pad crashers and they work well.  They haven't lasted as long as my spros though.  Ish's phat frogs are super easy to walk but aren't great for hookups because of their super low profile and small hook gap.  I like my Live Targets too but I wouldn't recommend them over Spros or Booyahs.

I have some of Ish’s Phat Frogs and I can’t walk them if my life depended on it but the twitch action works well for me. 

[Bluebasser86]

Popping Pad Crasher is my frog of choice. Savage Gear makes a nice popping frog too that is a little more durable than the Booyah. 

[soflabasser]

Live Target and Booyah makes good hollow belly frogs

[RichF]

11 hours ago, LxVE Bassin said:

I have some of Ish’s Phat Frogs and I can’t walk them if my life depended on it but the twitch action works well for me. 

Those things have a different walk than any other frog I've used.  It's super wide, almost like a spook. Do you bend the hooks out a little?  I feel like it's almost necessary in order to hook up.

[LxVE Bassin]

1 hour ago, RichF said:

Those things have a different walk than any other frog I've used.  It's super wide, almost like a spook. Do you bend the hooks out a little?  I feel like it's almost necessary in order to hook up.

I didn’t have any hook up issues. I didn’t bend the hooks, I just can’t walk it to well.

[boostr]

I'm on the Pad Crasher band wagon, but i'm telling you the BPS Kermy is a close second, It's body is soft and walks great just bend the hooks out a little so they don't poke holes in the body. Actually caught my PB on it (pre bent hooks).

[long island basser]

On 4/5/2018 at 3:41 PM, CroakHunter said:

I'm not big on color being a factor, but aren't the paint jobs sweet?

Yeah pretty cool.

I have the black gill, green frog and red frog. With the red frog being more orange than what it appears in the TW photo. But I like that.

[tcbass]

Never had great success with frogs, caught some but not consistently. 

 

 

Made a homemade Teckel Sprinker frog from a Spro Bronzeye 65 and started killing them. I am making another homemade one this year because I gave that one to a friend but I will try the Booyah Toad Runner since it is a knockoff of the Teckel. 

 

The homemade Teckel was far more consistent at catching fish than a regular frog ever was for me. The tail just does so much.

[iceintheveins]

Of the regular style frogs, the Livetarget and the Pad Crasher are the best, by far. Go with a natural frog color, a white, and a black, and your set for all conditions.

[Landis Carrier]

I'm a big fan of the Bizzbait Pad Daddy. Not a hollow body but I love them! 

[the reel ess]

Buy a regular size Pad Crasher and a Popping pad Crasher. In fact, buy two of each. All frogs eventually tear up. You can buy all the brands, but you won't get better than Booyah.

[EGbassing]

Going froggin' in a tiny pond full of shallow cover today. Sunny and 65 degrees. Can't wait to go... 

[ratherbfishin1]

2 minutes ago, EGbassing said:

Going froggin' in a tiny pond full of shallow cover today. Sunny and 65 degrees. Can't wait to go... 

So jealous, but than again Im just glad there isnt ice on our ponds.

[EGbassing]

3 minutes ago, ratherbfishin1 said:

So jealous, but than again Im just glad there isnt ice on our ponds.

The froggin' days will come... 

[jtharris3]

I fish frogs a lot. The Pad Crasher is by far my favorite. I also like the KVD Sexy Frog. I'm not real impressed with the Spro frogs I have several of them but, the Pad Crasher and KVD frogs fish much better IMHO. I also have a few of the Lunkerhunt Lunker Frogs, I like how they fish but, I don't seem to catch as many on them as I do the Pad Crasher. 

[FishDewd]

This thread made me buy two poppin pad crashers: black/blue and black/yellow. You fed the bait monkey!

[CroakHunter]

1 hour ago, FishDewd said:

This thread made me buy two poppin pad crashers: black/blue and black/yellow. You fed the bait monkey!

Same here. I just went and bought $60 worth of toad runners and spro king daddys

[bait__Monkey]

9 hours ago, FishDewd said:

This thread made me buy two poppin pad crashers: black/blue and black/yellow. You fed the bait monkey!

me still hungry

 

u feed me!

[the reel ess]

On 4/5/2018 at 9:03 PM, RPreeb said:

Is this why I've seen videos of guys bending the hooks out a little so that the hook set isn't quite as dependent on collapsing the body?

I do that with all my frogs (mostly Booyah, of course). Just bend enough to get some daylight between the hooks and body. I have an older SPRO. It is pretty rigid material. I didn't know if they still were. The same can be said of the Academy H2O frogs. Those are also harder to walk. But they'd probably be fine in vegetation.

[J Francho]

 

If you're setting the hook right, the frog rotates out of the way of the hook.  All you're doing by bending the hooks is weakening the steel.