Scumfrog fishin

[FishinBill]

How do you guys mostly work these in the pads? steady retreive or short hops? and then how do you work it in open water after you clear the pads? Tried one for the first time on saturday, didn't get anything but was kind of fun throwing it way up into those pads.

[Mark Christianson]

Work it back and stop it in every opening in the pads. Let it sit for a couple seconds and bring it to the next opening.

Work it slow.

You are gonna be in love with them when you get that first hit.

[OnTheWater]

I've had luck fishing them both ways.

Sometimes retrieving it fast with a very small hesitation every once and a while works well. With some frogs, you can do a very good skipping/hopping impression, works especially well in the pockets of pads. Experiment until you find what the fish are interested in.

Caught a 4 1/2 lb'r last night on a frog in very shallow water. It hit when the frog was completely still for a good second or two. Actually, to tell the truth, it hit when I was messing with the trolling motor. Isn't that how it always works, except usually you miss it and get a lure going mach 3 back at ya.

[JPSavage]

I spent 4 hours in the pads yesterday with good success.....After fishing pads for a number of years on various lakes, I am convinced The lure is only important as it relates to being a total floater or a slow sinking type lure...........Slow or fast retrieve relates more to bass attitude than anything else....color also of little concern....I have caught many nice bass in pads using an unweighted tube or worm rigged on a wide gap weedless hook, which of course sinks slowly when not in motion, on the other hand floater as most frogs are allow the short teasing type jerks........Various lures will produce , DEPENDING on the bass attitude.....As far as when you are out of the pads, ALWAYS, pause and jerk a few feet out as many times a vicious strike happens when a bass follows out of the cover........Good luck , and don't get stuck on an exact retrieve or lure, the bass will tell you what they want .

[senkoskipper]

Do you guys use a trailer hook on your frogs? i use a 5/0 extra wide gammy hook and when im fishing frogs, i always seem to hook it with the trailer hook. And yes, i am waiting a few seconds b4 a set the hook.

[buzzsaw]

Funny, I was using these in a tourney about a month ago on Clearwater and I caught a bunch of Bass on these... all of them were while the Scumfrog had been sitting still for 3-10 seconds. It's wierd when you wait and wait and then BAM! Same theory holding true right now with plastics... deep and SLOW as in let it just sit on the bottom with an occasional twitch. It takes a patient slow approach right now.

[SCUMFROG]

Real frogs don't move across the pads very fast. They sit on one then crawl off slowly and WHAM they're a bass's dinner. I've sat and watched frogs moved across pads and grass and I try to mimic that movment as much as I can.

[CHM]

I've had lots of fun with them this year. My favorite method is to pitch it to the place where a fish just ate something on top. Bam! Some nights they hit it the instant it hits the water. One hit it while I was helping my wife pull her frog out of the pads. I like to go into the weedy bays on a calm evening during the last hour of daylight. If there are bass in there they will hit a scum frog! Pull up your big motor, rig your bow mount to go shallow, and plow right back into the thick stuff where everyone else is afraid to go. (The weeds will grow back) I've noticed that the edges of the pads are sometimes easier to drive through than the wide open shallows where the Chara (skunk grass) can choke your motor. I use 50 pound Power Pro on my baitcaster and 15 pound PP on a MH spinning rod. I used to wait a second after the bass inhaled the frog but too many where hooked too deeply in the throat. Now I set the hook the instant the frog disappears. Works almost every time. I mostly pitch to big openings in the pads, but sometimes they attack the frog as I retrieve it quickly over the pads for my next cast. I've used lime green, watermelon, and black. They all worked. I let it sit for a bit, then pop it 6 or 10 inches. Sometimes I make it look the the frog is running for it's life towards the pads then pause at the edge. If you land on a pad after your cast let it sit on the pad for a few seconds, then pull it off the pad into the water and let it sit. It's really cool when you see a v-shaped wake charge your frog and then stop just behind it. That's usually a dogfish. You don't want to catch them!

Trailer hooks? Never had a need for them. Where I fish that would pretty much ruin the weedless part of a weedless frog. One KEY method to hooking success is to keep a slack line after your jerk and pause. The fish needs to be able to inhale it, and that ain't gonna happen if your line is tight.

[fishinchicks]

Can you use Scumfrogs where there are other types of weeds, or do they work mostly on lilypads? Our favorite lake doesn't have the pads - just other weeds near the dock where we fish. We have had success with other top water lures at dusk, but not with the frogs. The tips posted have been great, and I can't wait to try them.

[SCUMFROG]

I even use them in open water. Yes you can use them any were you think they'll work.

[ZOKU]

I love the Trophy Scumfrog!!

I've had excellent success with this lure. Actually, my current obsession is topwater, in general. But I don't retrieve the frog at all. Once casted out, I let him sit for a couple 'a seconds. Then twitch and hop him... then pause... twitch and hop... then pause.

[OnTheWater]

I'd have to agree, a black Trophy Scumfrog has performed the best for me this year.

[ZOKU]

*nod*

I have the black frog and the white one with the green markings...