Fox a frog?

[rtwvumtneer6]

*Fix... Oops ?

 

Anyone have a suggestion for fixing this guy, or should I just salvage the hardware and legs/skirt and toss the body?

[BayouSlide]

I'd try some superglue/bait repair glue first. Nothing to lose. ?

[jbrew73]

Toss it and try a Booyah Pad Crasher frog.  I find them to be more durable and less likely to take on water than other brands. 

[rtwvumtneer6]

19 minutes ago, jbrew73 said:

Toss it and try a Booyah Pad Crasher frog.  I find them to be more durable and less likely to take on water than other brands. 

Appreciate the suggestion.  I keep a few of the pad crashers for when there are toothy critters around but I prefer the Spro.

1 hour ago, BayouSlide said:

I'd try some superglue/bait repair glue first. Nothing to lose. ?

I took it a step further and added some old elaztech to the equation.  Now we wait ?

[throttleplate]

buy some 3M 502 quick cure and let her rip.

[WRB]

Trash can works.

Tom

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2 hours ago, BayouSlide said:

I'd try some superglue/bait repair glue first. Nothing to lose. ?

Time is money...

[rtwvumtneer6]

I should really start listening to @WRB from the get go.  Patch was a total fail.  Thanks, Tom.

 

Now I'm down to my last Killer Gill and they're back ordered for 2 more weeks ?

[GreenPig]

10 minutes ago, rtwvumtneer6 said:

I should really start listening to @WRB from the get go.  Patch was a total fail.  Thanks, Tom.

 

Now I'm down to my last Killer Gill and they're back ordered for 2 more weeks ?

If it pertains to bass fishing always stop and ask yourself WWWRB do.?

[jbsoonerfan]

26 minutes ago, rtwvumtneer6 said:

I should really start listening to @WRB from the get go.  Patch was a total fail.  Thanks, Tom.

 

Now I'm down to my last Killer Gill and they're back ordered for 2 more weeks ?

I might have one, if I do, I will send it to you. I will check tomorrow. If you don't hear from me, PM me and remind me.

[Fishes in trees]

How does it work when you fish it as is?   Once upon a time I had a Redfin with a hair line crack in it and it developed a unique action when it was 3/4 falloff water.   Caught fish better than my other Redfin which didn't have that crack, mostly because it would stop and sit when it was 5 to 6 feet deep and wouldn't start the slow rise a non-cracked Red Fin would.   In the case of my cracked Redfin and what I believe to be the case with your cracked popper, it would cast farther when full of water.  I'd wait to see if it wouldn't catch fish anymore before I trashed it.  Even then, I probably wouldn't trash it.  I'd hang it up on the peg board with all the other broken/trashed/ worthless for various reasons hard baits that I own.

That board is a memorial - either to my shrewd fiscal purchases, baits that lasted a long time before they honorably broke down - OR - it is a memorial to my optimism & ignorance, as in "YOU REALLY THOUGHT THAT BAIT WOULD CATCH A FISH?!?"    Which is which depends on my mood when I look a it.

[TOXIC]

Yeppers, that one I’d say is too far gone.  Being sponsored by SPRO for a number of years, I have thrown a lot of their frogs but never had one fail to that level.  It looks in pretty good shape otherwise.  I would box it up and send it back to them for replacement.  As an aside, some people like to seal the area where the double hooks exit the bait and the nose area but I always liked a couple of mine (not the poppers) to take on water so that when I am fishing the heavy weeds on the Potomac, I could pause the frog in the open spots and it would slowly sink and getting hammered in the process.  ?

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1 hour ago, Fishes in trees said:

Once upon a time I had a Redfin with a hair line crack in it and it developed a unique action when it was 3/4 falloff water.   Caught fish better than my other Redfin which didn't have that crack, mostly because it would stop and sit when it was 5 to 6 feet deep and wouldn't start the slow rise a non-cracked Red Fin would.

Loading redfins and long As with water is an old surf favorite. Once you are happy seal that bad boy up. I do it with my cranks for the late winter early spring, (in my best Mark Hamill voice) "no technique name"...

[rtwvumtneer6]

2 hours ago, TOXIC said:

It looks in pretty good shape otherwise.

Yep, first day it saw water.

2 hours ago, Fishes in trees said:

your cracked popper

It's a hollow body frog.  It sucks in water and disappears to the depths.  

[jbsoonerfan]

I don't think I have one in the popper. Got a box full of frogs, just not that one. I think I have the walking version if you need it. I think this is nasty shad, not sure if that would help.

[rtwvumtneer6]

@jbsoonerfan I appreciate it but it's all good.  I have more than a few extra frogs and I do have one more in that color still in the package.  I think it was an oddity that one expired so quickly.  Thanks, though!  

[jbsoonerfan]

1 minute ago, rtwvumtneer6 said:

@jbsoonerfan I appreciate it but it's all good.  I have more than a few extra frogs and I do have one more in that color still in the package.  I think it was an oddity that one expired so quickly.  Thanks, though!  

You bet!

[Bluebasser86]

Get one headed your way in a hurry if you need it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/192815340934?hash=item2ce4b09d86:g:qa4AAOxyeR9TLb2P

[rtwvumtneer6]

FYI SPRO's Policy:

We stand by all our products, so we will replace anything you send back to us as defective. We'd like to see the defects because it gives our quality control team a chance to examine the problem and fix it.

 

Our policy for replacing defective products is as follows:

•             Once the customer has returned the product, and we have had a chance to review the product, a replacement will be sent for each.

•             We will send one additional bait of the same type to cover your cost of shipping (e.g. if you send four, you will receive five).

[Bdnoble84]

I would think some devcon two ton would do the job