Need info on froggin

[GWTW-000]

Can some frog experts give me some info on when is the best time to frog. In the past we would just go out when ever and shoot them with a 22. This was out of a bass boat. Sometimes they were there sometime not. When is best? After a rain, full moon, no moon, after the dew falls. We just finished our last frogs and catfish this week and it's time to restock to freezer. With this airboat I think I can get a lot more with a gig. Just would like to know when is the best time.

 

[cntry141iq]

The best time is when they are up I have never found them to be there at any specific time. If your still usin the 22 let us know so we can stay far far far away LOL.

 

[Aces over 8s]

All of are luck has been late or early in the mourning. We would never start till after midnight, or sometimes get up around 3 am. Find a good area of Arrow heads and just run through it cut it up real good. Then sit back for 30 mins and let the frogs sit up nice and high trying to figure out what the hell just happen. Works every time. But are best frogs the big ones I speak of are way back in the pine trees. :lol:

 

[Larry]

A tip an old timer told me was to look for the big white birds grouped togeth in the daytime, at night you will find frogs there. Suprisingly he was right, I started remembering where the birds were and frogs were always there. i usually start aroud 11-12 at night and cover a lot of ground, then work my way back slowly covering the spots I have already been through, they seem to like to hunt whatever the boat churns up in the water. The best time seems to be about 2 hrs. before the sun comes up, the big ones come out. Another tip is dont use a high power light, I like to use a 50w projector light, bright lights tend to scare them under before you can gig them.

Larry

 

[cntry141iq]

I dont care for the big frogs myself except to brag about them. The best eation frogs to me are the medium size ones because the big ones the meat tears when you skin em and they are tougher but thats my preference.

 

[marshmaster pat]

Cntry - Well I learned to catch frogs from an airboat from the boys in the Basin over in Louisiana. We would lay down on the deck with head lights and hand grab everything. Two men grabbing and sometimes drinking (both beer and swamp water - neither killed any of us on yet while grabbing frogs) and the driver laughing.

Seems like everyone I know claims to have grabbed a frog with a cottonmouth attached to the other end. Then the storys really begin.

Gigging was used only when we were walking. LOL Now that was always a blast.

Then there was swatting, done in a piroque or from the front of a canoe or jonboat. If you couldn't reach them, you swat them with the boat paddle. But you have to hit it flat or it will not stun them enough and they jump away.

That was the days.

P.S. > Guys don't believe everything is bigger in Texas, those frogs in the basin beat everything I have seen over hear.

 

[FloridaQuaker1027]

from my experience......i normally get get frogs whenever the water is shallow....when it is too low they tend to hang in the sawgrass....in high water they are evern harder to find in my experiences......I do it out in the everglades so when it is about a foot deep it is the best.......doesnt matter any time of night....they are there......be prepared to cover some water........sooner or later u will get to pattern then

 

[cntry141iq]

Hey pat thats a good one we used to wade after them also when I was kid and sometimes we would get one of the longtail frogs they had teeth where the little ones didnt. My ex-lady's son always run around tryin to be tough or at least fool everyone into believin he was tough. I tried to get him to lay on the bow and grab em, he wasnt so tough, I told him he was just mean not tough he began to understand difference after hangin with me for a while. He is growin up ok now he can drive an airboat or a 18' flats boat with a 150 merc on it and the airboat was mine he learned on so he is ruined now he could never drive anything with less power and be happy and he is only 15 now started his seat time at 12. I got ruined at 8 when I went for a ride in a alcohol dragster at night the old slingshot style and drove it by myself at 12, and sprint cars at 14, aww the good old days thank god for memories.

 

[Anonymous]

sometimes we would get one of the longtail frogs they had teeth where the little ones didnt. My ex-lady's son always run around tryin to be tough or at least fool everyone into believin he was tough. I tried to get him to lay on the bow and grab em, he wasnt so tough, I told him he was just mean not tough

Good story. There is a diff in mean and tough.

There's no rush like cathing those longtail frogs like you said though. Not sure you have to be tough though, maybe just a little crazy :lol:

 

[cntry141iq]

Well Red .. CRAZY is definetly part of it. Caught a 4' er once for a show and tell session one night on the lake ... handed it to the fellow who wanted to look at it after a few minutes he said he was done and tried to give it back I told him just let it go he said NO WAY it'll bite me LOL well after carrying it around for a half hour or so it got heavy he finally let it go or it jusy fell outta his hands Gotta be careful what you ask for you may get it. And yes the difference between tough and mean is one some people never learn.. Take care Ya'll

 

[PredatorI0540]

Took an ole boy out on the boat once.. Wanted to catch a hog, said he would catch it( we dont use dog's we get right behind them on the boat and grab the back of there legs) the closer we got to the hog, the more he skooted back, finally my buddy in the back-seat snatched the boy up and showed him how we do it on LAKE HATCHNEHIA! I aint saying im not scared of anything, but some people sure think there bad untill it comes down to it!