Another Frog Bait

Not wanting to wait and see I rigged on on a Daiichi 5/0 EWG hook. I took it out to the pool and pitched it a couple times. It was much lighter than I expected. I had to readjust the reel substantially from throwing senkos on it. Thats a big chunk of plastic to be so light. I tossed it out on the pool and low and behold it floats. With those club foot (sassy shad style) trailign legs it really has some action on a straight retrieve as well.

I'm not convinced that's the best hook for the bait, but I can't imagfine stuffing a regular double frog hook up its ... um... well you get the idea.

Anyway, if I can figure out what hook and rod to use for it for the best results I think it will make a nice in between bait. Not quite a popper, and not quite a buzzbait, and still able to be fished in the heavy grass when a frog bite is on. Maybe even drag a treble hook off the bottom of the wide gap in open water. Hmmmm....

With just the wide gaphook I am think medium heavy rod with braid for a hard hook set. 1 2 3, jerk the tree trunk out. If I try the treble trailer in open water I imagine I might be able to get by with the same rod, but I'll have to back the drag way off. I'm thinking it might behoove me to be ready to fish it on a medium action rod. Hmmmmm....

Any ideas? Comments?

I dug out some of Gilbert's "famous" moss frogs to play with. The ones he decided to create after he got back from fishing the Ca. Delta. I rigged them on the same rod and hook as I tried with the Seizmo. Its an almost but not quite neutral bouyancy. It sinks so slow it almost makes you think it will float back to the surface. I bet it will work over grass very nicely. Its a better jerk frog than the seismo. A series of faint twitches as you retrieve it makes this bait come alive. It sits a lot deeper in the water on retrieve than the seizmo, but still makes a mild surface disturbance. I think it will make a very nice niche filler next to the Seizmo frog.

Also tried a "popping" frog that Gilbert gave me. Sorry Gilbert. This one doesn't seem to work for me. Maybe as a drop bait. It hits the water with its super realistic legs all akimbo, but its retrieve is nothing exciting. Atleast not to me. You can make it pop, but it takes a pretty fast retrieve to do it. I'll have to play with it some anyway. I mean, whoever thought a senko would turn out to be such a fish catching tool as it did.

http://www.richz.com/fishing/images/penelope.jpg

Now THAT's a frog!

Do yourself a favor and gets some horny toads, fish like toads way more than frogs, talk about action.. you don't know what your missing

Guy and I would catch a bunch of leopard frogs and toads, take them down to the rearing pond and feed the young muskies. The frogs were taken immediately and gulped down. We'd get the muskies whipped into a feeding frenzy and then toss in a toad. They'd hammer it and immediately spit it out. The toad would float to the surface, struggle and a different muskie would hit it and spit it again. We never saw the same muskie take a toad twice.

Evidently they secrete something that tastes nasty to fish that frogs don't. The frogs that were fed were taken and immediately swallowed, never to be seen again. Most of the toads made it back to shore, battered, bruised and torn, but never eaten.

The Horny "toad" lures might work better than a similar frog lure, but the real critters? Give me frogs over toads any day.