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Smash - 16 August 2011 01:18 AM

So sixty views and no responses and now I know why.  My Matzuo Kroaker Frog likes to take on water soon after it hit the water and my brother was making fun of me as I squeezed the water out of the frogs ARSE. 

My brother on the other hand had a Koppers frog and it did exactly what it was supposed to do.  Neither of us caught a damn thing but we sure had fun.  Regardless of the fact that we didn’t catch a fish my frog was drowning while his was popping across the surface like it should have.

It was our first time fishing frogs and I can honestly say you get what you pay for.

Smash

Try a horny toad or a mad tommy or a ribbit frog instead, work it just like a buzzbait. you won’t be squeezing water out of the frogs butt with those.

CincySid - 16 August 2011 07:23 AM

Smash - 16 August 2011 01:18 AM

So sixty views and no responses and now I know why.  My Matzuo Kroaker Frog likes to take on water soon after it hit the water and my brother was making fun of me as I squeezed the water out of the frogs ARSE. 

My brother on the other hand had a Koppers frog and it did exactly what it was supposed to do.  Neither of us caught a damn thing but we sure had fun.  Regardless of the fact that we didn’t catch a fish my frog was drowning while his was popping across the surface like it should have.

It was our first time fishing frogs and I can honestly say you get what you pay for.

Smash

Try a horny toad or a mad tommy or a ribbit frog instead, work it just like a buzzbait. you won’t be squeezing water out of the frogs butt with those.

Good point, but sometimes the bass aren’t wanting something burning across the surface.  I was throwing a horny toad and a buzzbait but was only getting blowups on the kopper’s.

i have a hollow body and a solid body tied on all the time. all the fish i have caught on a frog this year have come from solid body frogs. if you don’t use a weighted hook, they sink slow so you can buzz them back pretty slow and keep them in the strike zone longer. I never burn a solid bodied frog across the surface.

i just ordered some solid body floating frogs from bogs baits so i can buzz it or use it like a hollow bodied frog, get both uses from 1 frog.

sometimes you want the frog to sink in any holes in the mat. i do like to sit the hollow body over a hole and just barely twitch it. moves the frog but not forward, it just kind of oscillates over the hole. good technique but so far no frogs that way. every bass i’ve caught frog fishing this year was when the frog was moving.

I use the Live Targets alot and I love them. the body is super soft, the hook sets are perfect. it’s worth the money for surem, Ive got them in every color and size they offer. I still use my spros too, but the live targets have been doing very well for me

Never used the Kopper’s frog yet, but an 8 1/2 pound Bass is worth ten bucks anyday….congrats!