Frog Lure

[Driftless]

a friend of mine from down under told me he has been spanking the big trout with these lately.

He has been fishing them on the surface and putting a large split shot about 16 inches back and twitching it across the bottom. The frog has an air chamber to keep them up slightly off the bottom.

He reports thunderous takes.

I have been doing stomach content checks of big trout throughout the years and a small to medium Leopard Frog has been a common content of big browns. The 15 inchers also do frogs.

[JIvers]

Better let the largemouth guys know that frog patterns catch fish. Who knew?

[hookncook]

what! you can use frog lures on fish other than bass?

I've been doing really well with scum frogs- $1.99 a piece when you buy them in bulk, plus they don't snag up like spinners or spoons.

Then again, there's frog/ mice patterns for flies.

[Ufatz]

Well I'll be darned! I presume the checking of stomach contents was done with a stomach pump, a hgreat thing for any angler to have handy. Once had a big (Yukon) N.Pike spit up a beer can opener-we used to call them church keys- while I was slipping the (barbless) hooks out of him. Tried it a bit later and it still worked!! But my guess is those were not staples of his diet.

Had a marlin puke up a pile of shiny black fish about a foot long, still alive for the most part, and all of them brilliant pyscadelic orange and yellow and lime green irridescent colors. Watched a large bass pluck a humming bird right off a low hanging honeysuckle one time right down the shore from my cabin.

Now there are no bass along my shore. The guys with gobs of worms and big stringers have more or less cleaned them out.

And I have noticed an abundance of frogs lately.

[Nate McVey]

Has he been fishing them on the bottom or on the surface.......Who knew you could figure out what fish are eating by checking the contents of their stomachs. I sometimes like to sit real still and quiet and also find out what fish are eating, less messy that way.

[Driftless]

on the surface

[hookncook]

If you haven't watched a trout come out from under a stump to chase a moss boss you haven't lived!

[Nate McVey]

Quote:

He has been fishing them on the surface and putting a large split shot about 16 inches back and twitching it across the bottom. The frog has an air chamber to keep them up slightly off the bottom.

Are you sure he's been fishing them on the surface? I'm so confused.....

[ted4887]

Punctuation matters.

[Nate McVey]

Punctuation matters.

So he's fishing them on the surface of the bottom? Still confused

[hookncook]

an original thought... who would have thought that there are flies for this?

[hookncook]

Betcha for the same price I can get a skum frog, I can have Matt from Driftless bang out a few that will last a lot longer... sad part about the skum Frog- it has hollow body and the toothy trout shred them after a few catches..