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I was throwing a scum frog today, and twice it got a huge splash, felt a tug, set the hook...then nothing but grass.

 

I kept throwing at it...until I saw a bull frog lunge after my frog.  I had been trying to set the hook on a frog trying to eat my frog.

 

I cussed myself raw for not having brought my go pro to film it.

 

Anyone else ever see this?

 

I played around with that bullfrog for 30 minutes at least...watching him swim after my frog and try to eat it.

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Bullfrogs are super aggressive. We use to "fish", for them all the time when I was a kid. A grub on a bronze hook worked almost every time. Now I cuss them every time they chase my frog. I can say, I rarely catch fish where I have frogs chasing my bait. I'm guessing that's a sign they're too comfortable for there to be a predator around. 

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Yep. Bullfrogs will eat pretty much anything they can fit in their mouth.

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You guys have some bad frogs where your at, I never heard of such a thing. 
I mean chasing your lures. Holy cow 

 

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I caught a large bull frog on a Spro popping frogs several years ago.

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I’ve caught them on flukes and seknos too, dragging them across the top of a mat to drop in a hole, all of a sudden they wood come out of the woodwork to try to chase it down. At work we would actually catch and kill them as they were killing a native species of frog that was endangered. They can wreck an ecosystem they were never a part of once introduced

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Or maybe there was love in the air!

 

 

 

Mike

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?????

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I've had a snake chase mine and a couple of birds were very interested.

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I was fishing a small lake the other day that was littered with turtles.  Many were checking out my lure.  I was scared to death that I'd hook one, as I've done that before and there's no getting your lure back from that.  

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8 hours ago, CrashVector said:

I was throwing a scum frog today, and twice it got a huge splash, felt a tug, set the hook...then nothing but grass.

 

I kept throwing at it...until I saw a bull frog lunge after my frog.  I had been trying to set the hook on a frog trying to eat my frog.

 

I cussed myself raw for not having brought my go pro to film it.

 

Anyone else ever see this?

 

I played around with that bullfrog for 30 minutes at least...watching him swim after my frog and try to eat it.

I've never heard of this with bullfrogs but I have caught little salamanders off of zoom mini-lizards.

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I just watched a video on YT last week of some anglers fishing on Lake Raven in TX. He was casting a frog into lily pads and reeled in a big ol’ bullfrog. 
 

They will eat anything that fits! 

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I want to hook a frog on my frog, AND THEN have giant bass hit it all.    That would be epic. 

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4 hours ago, Bankc said:

I was fishing a small lake the other day that was littered with turtles.  Many were checking out my lure.  I was scared to death that I'd hook one, as I've done that before and there's no getting your lure back from that.  

 

No reason why not unless they are 100+ lb alligator snappers.  You might have some trouble landing them.  We've caught plenty of turtles pond fishing (some intentional and some accidental like the one that ate a crankbait for my dad).  Just haul them onto the bank or into the net, grab them by the tail, and unhook with pliers.  

 

13 hours ago, CrashVector said:

I was throwing a scum frog today, and twice it got a huge splash, felt a tug, set the hook...then nothing but grass.

 

I kept throwing at it...until I saw a bull frog lunge after my frog.  I had been trying to set the hook on a frog trying to eat my frog.

 

I cussed myself raw for not having brought my go pro to film it.

 

Anyone else ever see this?

 

I played around with that bullfrog for 30 minutes at least...watching him swim after my frog and try to eat it.

 

Growing up we had a pond that I nicknamed "13 frogs pond".  One summer saturday fishing it I got bored and the bass weren't eating.  I had on an original frog/rat from before Mann's bought them (I forget the original maker it was Lloyd Talent).  I'd look at the grass mat for a pair of eyes and cast just past them.  All of the bullfrogs loved it and you can guess how many I caught that day.  

 

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3 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

 

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Frog legs are some good eatin. Restaurants here pay big bucks for a good mess.

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Only thing I've caught on a frog so far is a bullfrog! And since you mentioned not having a GoPro.... I did have one :) Earlier in the vid is a cool topwater strike and me breaking by rod on it too (used rod). Yay.

 

Here's the frog on the frog. Video starts just before it is caught. Was hiding near shore in the vegetation. And feel free to laugh at my releasing him...not sure what I was thinking LOL.

 

 

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We catch them occasionally on some local lakes.

 

Allen

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