Frog Times

[N Florida Mike]

I was curious what time of day y’all do the best with top water frogs. For me , the first hour of daylight has been best by far , then nightime, then the last hour of daylight. 

I never fish them in the middle of the day but suspect it wouldnt work too well.

[jbsoonerfan]

Just the opposite for me. I find the best times to be about 11:00 am till 4:00 pm or so. My theory is that once the sun gets high in the sky they head for cover and cool areas, in my case this would include grass or weed beds. I have tried them in the morning and evening with no luck. This is post spawn fishing I am talking about.

[N Florida Mike]

? interesting.

[RoLo]

 

We've found the 11am to 4pm timeslot to be best for action, as well as size.

Based on one theory, old bass welcome the visual benefit of midday sun,

although they themselves are skulking in the shade of pads.

 

Roger

 

[Smells like fish]

Speaking of frogs, I found these Lake Fork "frog tail hooks" today. This is on a River2Sea abd a Jackall. They look like the cats meow for froggin. I've gotta get few more packs. Monkey says break out the credit card @JediAmoeba 

[iabass8]

morning

noon

night

[Hammer 4]

19 minutes ago, iabass8 said:

morning

noon

night

Ditto...

[JediAmoeba]

 

37 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Monkey says break out the credit card

 

[scaleface]

Mornings for me . I was nailing them yesterday morning before the sun started beating down on the water . After that I still got explosions but they were all closed mouths or something . I've notice that a lot in the two years I have been fishing them . 

[Smells like fish]

29 minutes ago, JediAmoeba said:

 

 

Oh so that's how it is... Here I am helping you spend your money on something I think will help and the whole time you been using it and keeping it a secret and didn't tell me or my monkey

[Catt]

If it's mostly cloudy to complete cloud cover then it's all day long. 

 

Sunny days I'm punching ?

[CountryboyinDC]

Most of my frogging is done on the tidal Potomac, and I'd say that the success with them (and really anything else) is more influenced by the moon (tides) than where the sun sets in the sky.

[swhit140]

I throw any time of the day, if they're biting it I'm throwing it.

[frogflogger]

I remember one trip in the glades when my client beat his personal best 3 or 4 times. It was in the low 90's and the water temp was in the upper 80's. He caught his biggest of the day at 12:30. It was his first experience throwing frogs. 

He had been reluctant to throw frogs because of the heat and time of day - wanted to stay with senkos his confidence bait. I'm pretty sure he now has a box full of frogs and that he fishes them all day.

[Jaderose]

All day...especially when the sun is high.  Big girls hide under those thick mats and if you can find an area with a thick mat AND shade it's as close to a guarantee you'll ever get bass fishing

[river-rat]

I haven't found anytime of day necessarily better than others. I've caught fish on a frog at all times of the day.

[MGF]

Me too. I've had my best frog fishing in the heat of the day when the fish are under matted weeds. If you're walking a frog in open water it might be best during low light.

[BassNJake]

Mornings are my best time for numbers on the frog/toad

In the direct sun, I get less bites but when I do it's usually a better fish

 

No weeds in my lake so I target anything that will provide isolated shade.

If you have a shoreline that is 200 feet long and all shaded, you can spend all day picking apart every piece of cover because it will all look good and be in the shade

Where as if you have a 200 foot shoreline that has 5 or 6 isolated bushes, there is only shade in one spot, now you have put the odds on your side, leaving you more time to hit these higher percentage type of areas

[scaleface]

After yesterday I have to say the Frog bite can turn on any time . I was on them  them at dawn then the bite shut off . After fishing points , ledges and brush piles with just a dozen little ones caught I went back to toads . It was a bright sunny day and around 1 o'clock  the switch was turned back on . It was a whoom whoom here and a whoom whoom there , here a whoom there a whoom...

[Mobasser]

I've gotten back into frogging again this year. In the evenings, I bank fish, and often spook frogs that are sitting in moss or weeds near the bank, so it might pay off to throw one around these spots in bright sunlight too.

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, scaleface said:

After yesterday I have to say the Frog bite can turn on any time . I was on them  them at dawn then the bite shut off . After fishing points , ledges and brush piles with just a dozen little ones caught I went back to toads . It was a bright sunny day and around 1 o'clock  the switch was turned back on . It was a whoom whoom here and a whoom whoom there , here a whoom there a whoom...

I want to go.......