Topwater frogs??????

[artcarney_agr]

65 lb. PowerPro usually does the trick.

You have to give them a couple seconds to inhale it - don't set the hook on the strike, but instead count 1, 2, kapow!

Once they're hooked, you just winch them in and never give them any slack.

I use the SPRO Bronzeeye (not the Jr.) religiously on the grass matts, and it works well...very well! Even the Chain Pickerel like that thing - and they usually scare the heck out of me with their strikes!

[ironhead70]

i take it ur fishing with on of thoes frogs from wallyworld like th scum frog or the king rat the bodys on them frog are a lot harder than orther kinds take the frog and spread the hooks out aways from each other this will give u a little gap but u will notice more hook ups and like they said wait a few seconds before u set the hook

[offdtop]

Zoom horny toad, Stanley frog hook, Braid line heavy action rod.

I have recently bought the tru-tungsten hackney frog hooks and have yet to try with the toadsthey are a double hook method designed for the Horny toads and the ribbits. I rigged one up and it looks pretty neat.

[joeyblueblood]

Zoom horny toad, Stanley frog hook, Braid line heavy action rod.

I have recently bought the tru-tungsten hackney frog hooks and have yet to try with the toadsthey are a double hook method designed for the Horny toads and the ribbits. I rigged one up and it looks pretty neat.

I've been looking at those myself. What size did you buy? I normally fish the horny toads.

[MsgMills]

Gonna give ya one of my secrets for fishing frogs...Switch to a tube bait with the tentacles on the end. Really don't matter what color, but maybe a white, Red Shad or even Purple will do.... Get a wide Gamma Hook Start it into the tube and before you rotate the hook, put a Styrofoam earplug up into the tube all the way to the end. Then rotate the hook and insert it all the way till it barely breaks the skin or go ahead and break the skin, but then barely bury the tip. This will increase your catch rate tremendously and remember don't use any type of weight, go with fluorocarbon line if possible as well.... Twitch the tube like the frog and hold on.......

This tactic is especially deadly at Patoka Lake, Lake Monroe in Indiana and on Ky. Lake fished over the grass mats......

[offdtop]

I've been looking at those myself. What size did you buy? I normally fish the horny toads.

4/0 and you can 25 ft per cast, watch youtube on 'em Greg Hackney has a video there

[smuckey41]

i like the horny toads to and the spro frogs also. i like the horny toads becouse you can stop it and it will sink slow. i like to stop it when i hit a pockit if i dont get hit when it first hits the pockit.

[lroberts]

I agree with what these guys have said.....braid, stiff 7 ft. rod, and a Spro Frog. I have had problems in the past with hook-ups on horny toads....but like the amount strikes they produce.

[DJD]

No doubt it's to each his own but I lost too many fish using braid for this technique. I would pull holes in their face (I guess) but with my standard line I know what I have to do to catch them. Good Luck might see you there very soon!

[mayracing]

I wait til I feel the fish pull on the line then I set the the hook. If that doesnt work them im just not gonne catch it .

[sglass]

Thanks for your help guys I am going to try and go after them again next Monday or Tuesday!! I will have stronger test line on this time and a couple other types of frogs to test out. I am pretty good with jigs/plastics and crankbaits and dealdly with the chatterbait but never have been good with the topwater. If I catch some hogs I will try and post a few pics on here for you guys. My dad told me he used to catch em on a spoon with a grub trailer drug on the grass. has anyone ever tried this???

[DJD]

Thanks for your help guys I am going to try and go after them again next Monday or Tuesday!! I will have stronger test line on this time and a couple other types of frogs to test out. I am pretty good with jigs/plastics and crankbaits and dealdly with the chatterbait but never have been good with the topwater. If I catch some hogs I will try and post a few pics on here for you guys. My dad told me he used to catch em on a spoon with a grub trailer drug on the grass. has anyone ever tried this???

Heck yeah! We used Johnson Spoons with grubs or spinnerbait trailers in Florida and you could cast them pretty far.
Never tried it here though. Those spoons were great on Redfish as well.