Conference wahoo::fishing

    Tim.
    Frog catching was one of my pre- adolestent persuits, you will need
    very sofisticated tackle for it. Namely: A stick about ten ft long.
    made of high tech. wood material. (any Type) willow works good!
    
    Tie a piece og string 8-10 ft long onto it and a piece of RED felt
    to the end. Dangle the Rag in front of the frog. They will swallow
    it, when the do, pull them quickly out of the water and fling them
    onto the ground to stun them. This will give you a couple of seconds
    to grab them before they hop away.
    Continue this procedure until your pockets are full o' frogs.
    
    P.S. Don't forget to empty your pockets before going home.
    

    
    Hmmmm...Thanks for the info, but my real question was how do I hook
    the little buggers as bait so that I get into some bass?

    What chew need is wun ob dem tadpole lures. Me, I dunno jes who maks
    dem, but I got a couple. Dey ar 2-3 inches long wit a weedless hook on
    de bottom ob dem. Dere sorta round, black, wit lil white dots on dem.
    Look lak a big tadpole wit a small tail.
    
    Chew jes trow dem op on de lily pads or duck moss an de bass sorta
    sucks dem down. Dey don strike hard so chew hav to watch all de time.
    Dere standard 'quipment don chere in Loosiana.
    
    Coonass

    Tim,
    
    	Frogs are an excellent bait for BASS.  I only use artificial
    baits now but I use to use frogs a lot.  I use to use small frogs about
    1 1/2" long.  I would hook them through both lips sort of like a tommy
    cod.  I also use to put a small splitshot sinker about 1' up the line.
    	The idea with the splitshot is to have it just heavy enough to keep
    the frog below the surface.  This forces the frog to struggle to the
    surface constantly attracting the big ones.
    	It is hard to hook a bass with a small hook using frogs usually
    fish caught have the hook deeply embedded in the back of this mouths,
    one of the reasons I don't like live baits.
        Actually many frog replica lures can be worked to effectively
    imitate a frog, they even have some out that are weedless.
    
    Good Luck
    Steve
                                                        

    Tim,
    
    I think the clue to success is in your original note.  I haven't
    used frogs as bait but I've seen illustrations of two hooking methods.
    
    One is through the mouth, like a shiner.  The other is THROUGH THE
    BACK LEG .. try a meaty section of the thigh.  If it doesn't work, at
    least you'll be able to try twice before you have to throw away
    the frog (or get sick).
    
    -SSS-

    
       I always hook them thru the body near the ass end. If you push the
    hook right through the little guy's back so that it loops around
    it's backbone the frog should still swim good and the hook is right
    where the bass will strike.  You can also get weedless frog lure
    just about anywhere and you won't have to mutilate no more toads. :-)     
     
    luck     
Kevin

    My neighbor works at a place that cuts granite.  They have a drainage 
    area that hold lots of little frogs.  He's been bring me home frogs for my 
    bass.  (Cheaper than goldfish!)
    
    Although the wife doesn't seem to particulaly care for the idea.  I keep 
    a 5 gallong bucket on the deck with muck, water and frogs in it.  And the 
    frogs sometimes complain verbally while being carried thru the livingroom, 
    on their way to becoming fish food.  
    
    The goldfish didn't voice their opinions about the matter.   
    
    donmac

    
    Thanks Sportsmen!
    
    I think I'll try one of those weedless lures. I'd seen them at B&T
    shops before, but was reluctant to pick one up because I didn't think     
    anything would hit'em. Now I know different. You can spend lots of dough 
    on junk you'll never use or doesn't get them.
    
    As for catch and release I wholeheartedly agree, but yesterday we were
    going for dinner, I had chicken (sigh)...better luck next time I hope. 
    
    Tight_lines
    
    Tim

    wile chew dere, see if dey got a frog gig(som places use spears an some
    jes let chew use grabber gigs). Den wen chew git tired fishin at nite,
    chew kin go giggin. Get op on de fron ob de boat wit one ob dem miner
    lites an de gig in your han. Have some else paddle for chew. Lissen for
    de biggest croaker on de lak an jes follow de sound. Wen chew get close
    shine de light rite in hisw eyes an gig 'em!!
    
    Den chew will hab somethin else to fry wit chew fish, frog legs. An dey
    is mos good to!! Wen I wuz a little boy type I used to go giggin all
    nite long, lotsa fun.
    
    Coonass

      I have also seen frogs hooked "Texas Style". Put the hook down
    thru both lips, then bury the hook between the little critters 
    back legs (from behind and underneath). This keeps it somewhat 
    weedless, and gets the hook back where the fish will hit it.
    
      I have personally never fished with frogs, but I paln on trying
    it in the near future. I did pick up some artificial ones, and
    plan on hooking them the way I described in the previous paragraph.
    
    -Ron-

    Hey coonass, I bet these natives up here in New England are scratching
    their heads on your last note. With the size of the edible type
    frog up here it would take a week to get a mouth full. The largest
    I've ever seen up here was no more than 4 or 5 inches long. I believe
    it's due to the amount of growing time, 4 to 5 months, vs. down
    there year around.
    
    I grew up in Texas but spent many a night (all night) catching frogs
    just across the border in Oklahoma, well, we really shot them with
    .22 shorts and picked them up. We would come home with 200-300 frogs.
    
    Man-O-man are those legs great with some fried okra and french fries,
    I can taste them now.
    
    
    John

    Recently I explored a section of lake Waukewan that is only accessible
    by going under a small bridge (canoes, crawdads and small alum boats
    can fit). It turned out to be non-bass territory, but there seemed
    to be plenty of smallish pickerel. I had a blast catching them on
    a weedless rigged Mr Twister Hawg Frog - just a soft plastic frog
    rigged like a plastic worm, (point run thru the nose, then turned
    and buried in the backside).
    
    I could see the pickerel come out of the weeds and grab the frog
    from the side. They liked to hold it in their mouth and run with
    it. If I set the hook right, I had 'em. Thing was, they were so
    small that I wasn't too interested in landing them, but it was fun
    just the same. I haven't tried the same rig in bass territory, though.
    Probably should..! I used the yellow/green color.
    
    Ed

    Ed, we'll have to have coonass send a bunch of them Louisiana frog
    legs up here. Fried or smoked they would be a real treat. How about
    it coonass????
    
    
    John

    	I use dem rubber frogs.  LOVE EM.  Lookin for some o dem 3/0
    or 4/0 weedless hooks right now to hook em.
    	As for frog giggin, never did dat Coonass.  Closest I ever come
    to doin dat was when we was out in a rubber raft one night on a
    lake.  Didn't have no gigs.  So, we jus slapped em on de noggin
    wit the paddles.  Talk about a bunch of WET kids.  Der was LOTS
    of dem, "OOPS, MISSED IM", that night.  (Good excuse for a water
    fight, right???)  :-)