When are you throwing a horny toad?

[Cbump]

Time of year, conditions, etc 

 

Thanks!

[Junger]

When the bass are looking up and willing to chase, which for my body of water is about 75+ degree water, a moving tide, spatterdock pads, and hydrilla. I really like to parallel it along pad edges, or when the hydrilla forms edges where the bass are usually waiting in ambush next to open water. I have seen them bust through hydrilla, but it's usually a bite in the open water next to the cover.

[Catt]

Bout two months now, shallow water marshes, water temperatures about 55.

[GRiver]

I fished them last Sunday, in the Lilly pads, and around the cypress trees. I like black and a BPS color bama frog, green back orangish belly.
I like to use them in the spring, when the frogs are active and looking for mates, but probably good anytime.

[Captain Phil]

I love toad fishing.   My favorite bait is the Gambler Cane Toad.  Fished like a buzz bait, it produces big fish for me.  Unfortunately, these baits have a dark side.  I fish them in heavy cover and pads.  Bass often miss the bait which makes my fish in the boat ratio only about 50%.  I have tried all kinds of toad hooks and nothing works all the time.  Toads work year round in Florida as long as the water is clear enough.

[scaleface]

Late spring through fall in Chara algae . They are one of the few lures that will go through it .Other than that never . I miss so many bass with it that it only gets thrown where other lures cant go.

[webertime]

Any time there's a topwater bite

[casts_by_fly]

any place and time I want to fish a buzz bait but there's too much grass making it difficult, i.e. grass wrapping the blades every cast or trying to tuck it up under low bushes.  

[flyfisher]

I usually throw them when I am fishing a hollow bodied frog and get some hits as i am moving them fast.  I do agree with others that they basically a more subtle buzzbait and can come through cover.