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Pro Tips

Tips from Bobby Barrack!

Grab a stout rod 6’6” to 8’. Get some 30 lb. + braided line and a new “Perfect Frog” in your favorite color. You are now ready to tangle with the biggest bass in the pond.

For open water frog fishing, it’s very important that you use 30 to 50 lb. braided line. The smaller the diameter of the line the easier it is to walk the frog. Heavier braided line won’t work in open water.

Thinning and feathering the legs gives the frog, at rest, a bird or dragonfly silhouette. To thin the legs, clip the skirt where it leaves the rubber band inside the frog. To “feather” the legs, hold the frog upright, cut straight up the outside of the skirt.

Evaluate the intensity of the strike before you set the hook. If the strike is a subtle slurp, allow the fish to load the rod a bit before you swing. If the strike looks as though someone threw a large boulder in the water, then swing immediately.

Frog Tips

I like to use a 7 ft. rod or longer when fishing a frog with a high-speed reel 6:3 to 1 or 7:1 to 1 for working the frog with 50 lb. braided line for open water and 65 lb. for matted grass.
Fishing the frog 12 months out of the year and in any watercolor can be very effective, even in the winter. I like to use dark colors like black, brown, reds in stained to muddy and my favorite pearl white in clear water.
Painting designs or coloring dots on the bottom of you frog will give it more natural appeal to bass.
Learning to “walk the frog” can create numerous strikes in open water, underneath overhanging trees, next to brush or under docks. Basically what I am saying is use the frog everywhere and you will catch more fish!