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Old 08-30-09, 07:25 PM   #1
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Default my first frog fish

so today i got a new first. i got my first fish on a frog. it was at this lake where there are lilly pads everywhere. i was with a friend of mine and we had started out as me using a power worm and him a spinner bait then jig. then we both switched over to t rigged yum dingers and ended up with some small ones.... or "micros as he calls them..." so then i switched over to a yum buzz frog green pumpkin on a 5/0 ewg hook. on my first cast one explodes on it about 10 feet away and never hit agaion. after a few more casts i got one!! it was only small but i was still proud because it was my first frog fish. then we kept going down and i was lobbing it into thick pads when this one pig just clobbers it!! unfortunatly i got to excited and set the hook to early. a couple minutes later he smashed it again. this time i think i had him. i think he was barely hooked because he ran into thick pads and popped of.... he was nice like 5 to 7 lbs. i know my new favorite presentation....
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Old 08-30-09, 09:23 PM   #2
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Congrats. Frog fishin is exciting for sure.
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Old 08-30-09, 09:39 PM   #3
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Like JB says "it gets your heart thumpin don't it..
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Old 09-02-09, 07:26 AM   #4
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Congrats! Frogs are addicting!
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Old 09-02-09, 07:54 AM   #5
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I've really been throwing the frog a lot this year. It's quickly becoming one of my favorite ways to catch bass. Congrats on your first frog fish!
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Old 09-02-09, 06:01 PM   #6
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thanks guys. and it stinks that i just got really into it now that fall and winter are coming.... how long can i keep fishing it until it just gets to cold?
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Old 09-02-09, 09:14 PM   #7
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fish till you can't take the cold no mo, lol.
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Old 09-03-09, 07:03 PM   #8
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I fish all season long lol... Actually once this past winterni couldn't feel my hands.... Oh well... I was fishing at a pond with bass..... It's gonna take a whole lotta frost bite to get me to leave
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Old 09-05-09, 12:15 PM   #9
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Congrats. Hits like that will get the ole heart pimpin for sure. That Yum buzz frog is a frog you don't hear too much about but I know from having used it, it's a dynamite frog bait, as is the Strike King Rage Toad!
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Old 09-05-09, 03:46 PM   #10
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Make sure you take any heart meds before topwater fishing with a frog....lol
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Old 09-06-09, 12:41 PM   #11
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i think next time i will buy zoom horny toads or rage toads. i tried the buzzfrog yesterday and all the stupid thing did was run upside down. unless i did something wrong..., i was using a 5/0 hook. is that bad?
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Old 09-06-09, 12:58 PM   #12
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Don't forget to grab a package of Ragetail toads.....I love those things.
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Old 09-06-09, 10:03 PM   #13
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Rage toads it is then.
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Old 09-07-09, 07:57 PM   #14
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To me the horny toad is the senko of frogs/toads. I have over 25 different brands of toads and the horny toad outfishes them all. I may be biased to my home waters but this has been the case for me. I've also started fishing them with a bullet weight and letting them sink to the bottom. I recently read that frogs will dive down to the bottom to hide in the mud. Once they hit bottom sort of try to dig them in to the mud, weeds or bottom debris.
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Old 09-08-09, 10:55 AM   #15
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i think next time i will buy zoom horny toads or rage toads. i tried the buzzfrog yesterday and all the stupid thing did was run upside down. unless i did something wrong..., i was using a 5/0 hook. is that bad?
Upside down, or right side up, don't matter. I've caught plenty of fish both ways. I like the Rage Tail Toads better, but they're usually a good bit more expensive than the buzz frogs or the horny toads. The rage tails have bigger feet, so they make a bigger disturbance (in the Force ) than the other two. All of them work, though.
I use a 3/0 EWG Gammy Superline hook for mine. I straightened a couple of the regular EWG 3/0's horsing fish out of the slop, so I went to the Superlines.
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Congrats on the first frog fish.

I've used the Buzzfrog, Horny Toads, and Rage Tails. I definately like the Horny and Rage Tail toads the best. I use a 5/0 Owner Twistlock or a 4 or 5/0 EWG gammy.

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