Frogging

[Mobasser]

An older friend who I fish with recently bought six jars of new old stock Uncle Josh Jumbo Pork Frogs, in the grn/ white color.                                                                He's given me two jars to use, so here's the game plan. I'll be using these jumbo frogs with a larger size 4 single hook. The hooks have a wire weedgaurd, the style that goes from the hook eye, and goes under the hook barb.                                                               I see the benefits here for one, the toughness and reusable durability of the pork rind, and secondly, the large single hook, which I'm hoping will keep a fish pinned better.                                                This seems like a big year for frogs here in Missouri. Scores of tadpoles around the banks on my trips so far, and many frogs of all sizes hiding around the moss edges and some lilly pads here.                                                              Most of the cover we'll be casting over is a mixture of sparse moss edges, some thicker pad areas, along with a few blowdowns and stumps that are visible.                                                        I think the pork rind frogs are going to work good here. Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions on all this? Any different hook style, or rigging info?

[river-rat]

 

I was 14 years old when I caught my first bass over 6 lbs. on exactly the rig you are talking about. That was in 1966 and I'm quite certain this will still work for you.

 

My only advice is to hesitate for a couple of seconds to set the hook after you get a strike. But that is sometimes easier said than done.

 

 

[Deleted account]

There is an old informercial of some outdoors writer or such fishing it like that. Twist lock widegap and a ragy plastic is how it's done in this century.

[papajoe222]

Plastics offer a much more color options than pork does.  What they don't offer is the flavor and that was the number one reason I continued to use them years after plastic versions arrived.  One modification I made was to add a little weight to the hook shank just above where the bend begins. The result was the pork would remain pattern side up and would all but eliminate line twist. Find a way to keep them wet and one will last a long time.

[CrankFate]

I’m willing to get flamed over this. I always hated the pork legs in water bottle things. Berkeley massively improved and upgraded that idea.

[Jaderose]

"This seems like a big year for frogs here in Missouri. Scores of tadpoles around the banks on my trips so far, and many frogs of all sizes hiding around the moss edges and some lilly pads here. "

 

Agreed.  Been a couple of weeks since I've been out but all the signs have pointed to an EPIC froggin year here in NOWEMO.  I'm pretty jacked.  My frog rod is screaming to be used.