Frog fishing

[Gumboot]

1 hour ago, dblades said:

Caught a lot of frogs as a kid , with an old cane pole and the red cellophane from Dad's cigarette pack. 

Just when you thought you had heard it all...

If you'd care to share, would like to learn more about this technique.

[MOPanfisher]

3 hours ago, dblades said:

Caught a lot of frogs as a kid , with an old cane pole and the red cellophane from Dad's cigarette pack. 

I never used a cigarette pack.wrapper but a piece of red handkerchief worked well.  Was a lot of fun, big old bull frogs puts up a good fight.  

[Flysmallie]

6 hours ago, Gumboot said:

If you'd care to share, would like to learn more about this technique.

It's pretty easy. Put anything in front of a bullfrog and make it look alive. They will eat it. Plastic worms work really good but so does a spinnerbait. Landing one is where the fun begins. 

[tjm]

That's probably what got me started fly fishing, red cloth, white cloth, piece of string off a gunny sack, any long stiff pole, #6 grab hook; swing the "fly" just so far away and the frogs leap to catch it. I had to be quiet when I snuck up to the pond though or all the big frogs would hide.

[Ham]

On 12/7/2022 at 8:15 AM, dblades said:

Caught a lot of frogs as a kid , with an old cane pole and the red cellophane from Dad's cigarette pack. 

dang. I missed out on a lot growing up. 

 

[Carl1969]

Glad I'm not the only one who "fished" for frogs as a kid.

[mic]

Frog legs cooked right are very good.  Is it just me, or are there a lot less bull frogs now then 40 years ago?

[FishnDave]

I was flyfishing after dark at a local public pond a number of years ago.  Had a headlamp on.  I saw a big bullfrog on the bank.  I tossed a mouse fly over onto the ground near it.  It pounced and ate it so fast!  Wrangling it on shore as it jumped around was ridiculous to watch.  Getting the hook out of its tongue was no fun at all.  Now I just leave the frogs alone.

Its a lesson I had to learn all over again this year with a snake.

[tjm]

4 hours ago, mic said:

Frog legs cooked right are very good.  Is it just me, or are there a lot less bull frogs now then 40 years ago?

I don't know about 40 years ago but there are no where near as many as there were 60 years ago, it was pretty easy to find frogs in the 1960's but I had already noticed a decline by the 1980s and I haven't killed a frog since the mid '80s because of that. I rarely ever see their tadpoles either in places where when I was a kid they were easy and numerous. 

[Flysmallie]

4 hours ago, mic said:

Is it just me, or are there a lot less bull frogs now then 40 years ago?

I left south Oklahoma in 1985 and haven't seen any like the ones down there since. Not sure if that was a decline or not but were there ever any big bullfrogs around here?