Forum | Rubber frog

Steve nailed that pretty good,most frog fish came early prior to the flood,and some at end of the season when water was dropped allowing deeper areas to grass up.

For some reason even when grass was availale they just didnt utilise it to full extent,failed to hit frogs like a ribbet or horny toad or those molded ones we made.

Yet did at times hit rather outlandish large floating frogs ,inparticular early prior to high water.

This is a king spro 1 oz frog ,bass is a keeper over 15 in,and it wanted it badly as photo shows.

Taken march 29th,in a landlocked cove in the state park,in lilly pads,first ones up around here,water temp in 50s,air temp same.

Few and far between this year.

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I love fishin' frogs.  I remember when the Garcia frog came out and I first purchased one. I took it to this little out of the way pond that held big bass and OMG I could not keep the bass off that thing.  Next trip out six of us went and hit the pond and I kept the frog in the box and sat on the bank taking photos until everyone was ready to leave.  A couple bass had made passes at spinnerbaits but that was about the sum total of any hits.  Chubby packed it in, and since he was driving uttered, "All aboard. I'm leaving."  I told him, "Gimmie a couple casts and let me catch a couple then we'll go."

Chubby cussed me up and down because I hadn't wet a line in two hours but finally figured he'd open a beer and sit on the bank and chide me because I'd get skunked like the rest of em.  Three casts and three fish later five guys had me pinned in the middle of em trying to wrangle my frog away from me.  I think I got ten bass in twelve casts and almost had to walk back to town.

So I know the last post was in July, but how'd that frog work anyhow????

Shortly thereafter ill come quietly into the yard.

Well what time is good for you.

Doug ive often said that myself,yet they do work.

Some for reasons somewhat unkown,yet some im aware of the reasons that is.

The dbbb with its small blades still has a fair amount of lift in it,I toss it on a 4/7/1 reel and actually slow roll it,with its built in lift it stays just off bottom in say 4 ft of water(3/8 oz the 1/2 oz requires slightly more cranking)the 3/8 in most cases with a higher speed reel be kept on top,the 1/2 would be a hard critter to actualluy buzz with,but it works as designed.

And for the rubber creations ive caught fish on all so far,next is a snake head on on my 12 in and 14 in worms,possibly made out of floatable rubber.

Many color combos work while outragious,chart and or bubblegum for stripers in or on a large wholly bugger -orange and flouresent yellow for black bass,size however does come into play then,and the dbb is quite larger,often here on ky lake schollers are out for a particular size of minnow slashing at everything else and no hookups yet it works,even when they are hitting butterbean shad 1 in long,and a popr wont or a lipless wont as to big.

Suspect there its the blades flash being seen on only the outside edges and never all at one time,thus when viewing it looks like a two,three,or even four multi bladed spiinnerbait depending upon one sec to another when viewing.

So Id bet you,if legal to do so here i would not only catch at least one on the rubber at 179,but also at least one on the dbbb tossing into holes,even if there is no spinnerbait bite.

That is the perplexing thing I cant figgure out,often here there wont be a spinnerbait bite or much of one,yet a chatterbait or even the dbbb get bit.Oct and nov being two hardest months for the spinnerbait,yet change out to a chatterbait or even my odd dbbb and one can limit out at times.I havnt a clue as to why?