U gotta wait after they hit it wait like 2 seconds or so an set the hook u gotta give em time to get it good or u yank it out their mouths its the hardest part of using frogs really
It's so hard cuz it's so different it's the opposite of most other lures it just a reaction my other prob is when they not biting for awhile as soon as I look away or take my attention or focus off the frog one hits it hard af an I snatch it right back at me 😆
@@NWTrailSeriestwo solutions, carry a separate rod with an unweighted senko and throw it on the fish you miss. Second, switch to a soft plastic frog or toad, they swallow those things.
That’s always been my problem with frogs. I’ve never been able to set the hook on a fish using them. Get hits all the time but damn it it’s aggravating 😂 I’m so used to being as quick on the trigger as possible to keep the bass from swallowing the power worms I usually use so they don’t die and I yank them out of their mouths before I get the hook set. That wait is easier said than done for me lol
Maybe if the companies that make them would spend more time on fixing this instead of coming up with designs for the top of the frog that fish can see…
They're made like this for a reason. The hole allows the air/water inside to get out so the body can collapse and expose the hooks. They could do away with the hole, which will firm up the body and prevent it from collapsing to expose the hooks.
A decade ago, my friends and I would fish daily and need frogs for the lily pads. Strike kings held up the longest at the time, We'd also cut the tassels down half way so we wouldn't get false bites.
Pro tip homie. Coat the bottom in mod podge. I do 2 coats and it usually lasts a whole season. Unless your bite is really good lol. The water leaks in around the hooks so coat that area well.
Anytime I buy a new frog I'll normally cut the streamers a tad bit but I have that exact frog I just use some melted rubber to cover gaps in hook areas an I also bend my hooks a tad to get a better hook set
There's no problem! It actually helps with casting and the way it sits lower on the water is more advantageous for hookups. Real frogs don't float that high up.
Frog fishing is 90% mental bro I swear😭 you gotta have real patience for that shi, especially with how many fish you’ll miss before you figure out the timing of the hook set lmao
@@NWTrailSeries I've had them years so I can't remember what they're called but one of them is solid foam that has a weighted hook (obviously that one can't fill up with water) the other is a thin hollow latex body that has a twin hook that comes up around it's rear end on both sides and I guess the latex seems to hug the hooks where they ass through the body well enough that no water gets in... I've had a bunch just like the current latex ones... Idk if it's just Good luck or what but they've always worked well for me and get hit HARD by bass especially right before sundown
@@sumo-ninja I've got several from the late early '90s that are also that solid foam with a single hook. I haven't bought new lures in years but from what I can tell the quality of them has just gone down so much.
These work very well subsurface, too, so you needn't drain them every time. I like them, but there's too many misses with them. Tried bending hooks outward, but it wasn't weedless afterward.
Some frogs don't fill with water as bad as others. But all frogs get filled with water if they get hit and taken below water but the bass doesn't commit. You get used to squeezing the frog every few casts just to check and make sure 😁
Fill with spray foam, cover the hole with JB Weld 2-part marine epoxy, and paint to match the surrounding color 🤙 best way to do it, yes it takes time but 100% worth it
I like to use oil-based scent and I put it over the hole and squish it something and absorb the oil into it and then it becomes more water resistant because of the whole oil and water thing...
Cute video. I’d advise using a Booyah poppn pad crasher. The style is most versatile You can pop it, walk it it goes right through cover (The regular nose frogs tip gets stuck on pads and weeds) And they hold together way better. I rarely squeeze my frogs. I personally never cut my legs it’s absolutely insane. Most bass will hit something skirting amongst the surface their opportunist. Big bass Like to make sure before they eat. A pause of a regular legged frog allows the legs to expand slowly just as a real frog does if you observe both. There’s no bigger and stronger bass then froggn bass ✌️🫡🎣 Happy Fishing
If you are catching, you are squeezing. Try solid floating soft plastics; they are weedless and the bass hold on ti them longer as they don't feel the hook until you set it.
The first frog lure I used was a vintage foam lure, caught so many fish on it, didn't know it was a vintage until I tried to buy a new one, I cried when I lost that lure
Pro tip, keep a small cup of your favorite bass juice and local water in the yak. Every few casts, squeeze it out and then stick it in the cup to suck a couple drops into the frog. If they don't bite the frog you've peppered the area with fish attractant and they will demolish a worm or shad
I had one and it worked really well, if you don't want water to go into it you can take a couple pieces of rubber worm and stuff it where the hook comes into the body.
I've seen a few comments saying you gotta have the airflow to allow the frog to compress during the bite, then the hook has a better chance of setting. So looks like I'll just keep squeezing away lol
You tend to miss more using top water lures, especially on top of moss or lilly pads, but holy 💩 is it fun. 😂😂😂 Plastic worms with no weight work similarly too. But you wouldn't get to squeeze the frog. 😂
I miss strikes on them all the time, even with a delayed hookset ive lost more fish on a frog than any other lure, thats why i like a weightless texas rigged soft plastic frog much better
They just straight up miss the frog half the time, that plus how often the hooks miss.. Definitely a tricky lure.. I haven't tried a texas rigged soft plastic frog yet, but based on your profile picture I will be looking into it!
@@NWTrailSeriesI just watched a video by a pro angler that said he thinks a lot of times they are hitting it with a closed mouth to stun in and you won't hook those fish anyway. I have been using the soft plastic zoom horny toad rigged like the op mentioned and it works great, but it does sink.
Just drill a large enough hole in the bottom bout 1/8 or more inch for water to drain out and a same size hole at top for air to come in so it can drain because to drain it needs air
But did you know you can actually use this to your advantage, to present the frog sub surface, when the fish are being finicky? Also, if this annoys you so badly, you can always cut a lil slit in the frog, insert a lil strip of pool noodle foam, and glue it back shut with a drop of superglue. That way, the frog always has some residual buoyancy, even if it completely fills up. Seriously, though... Give that sub surface presentation a try! Real frogs swim under water 90% of the time as well.
I'm always on the search for more topwater lures! Just checked em out looks sick! Last time my bro n I went out the topwater was nuts. I definitely wanna be more prepared next time
Get a Booyah Pad Crusher. Never had any water get in a Booyah. I prefer them over spro or any other frog. They also make hollow body spooks and poppers now that are designed weed less like a frog, Idk what brand does and doesn’t though.
I keep getting comments on people saying to super glue the holes shut, buuuut.. after thinking about it, that could only hurt your hook up ratio. The holes are there to provide give on the frog to let the hooks do their thing. Just gonna have to keep squeezin
There's a little yellow thing I'm the one that has like the black and yellow stripes on it you should take that little yellow thing out from underneath the frog and it'll immediately drain the water for you and no more water I will get into it
Are you getting your first baitcaster or your first dc reel? If it's your first baitcaster I'd recommend getting a daiwa tatula 100 ct. I see some on sale right now for like $115 you can get two for the price of one of those other reels. and I'll guarantee you'd be super happy with them. BUT if you are looking to get a dc reel, both of those are massively top rated reels. I've never used either, but I've held them at the store, and seen a million video about them. If I got one, I'd probably get the curado.
I love it and can't be surprised at the bar of people that are you guys in a good place for me and you don't have a lot to say to you and you are a little more in my heart keeps me going from the world record and not just being able and not just for me I am so happy birthday to my family so much for just a couple days and a few weeks later this year old boy is in a good place for the first two days and he will have a great time for him and the family to be able and be happy to see you guys again soon and we can get together and see what we have
Dude squeeze the side under the hook 1 squeeze and your done. Or take a sealer and dap it with toothpick bottom hole and hook inlet hole. Happy hunting
Scum frog launch frog. Or the og scum frogs. They r not corked. The material itself float. So no pissing on u. If u get the big foot ones with paddle feet order replacement legs from blitz frogs. They fit great after a bass rips urs out
We all squeeze our frog it’s nothing to be ashamed of
It's just...
I film it
And rewatch it a few dozen times lol
@NWTrailSeries just be careful man, you could start growing hair on your hand.
Yea
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@reynolds264 There's an old saying that if you masturbated too much, you'll grow hair on your hands. Just an old mans tale.
Quick there's a bass
"Where?"
"Hold up I gotta give my frog cpr😂"
U gotta wait after they hit it wait like 2 seconds or so an set the hook u gotta give em time to get it good or u yank it out their mouths its the hardest part of using frogs really
My first day they were biting at the frog like crazy was rough.... couldn't get myself to wait that extra second and missed out on so many bass lol
It's so hard cuz it's so different it's the opposite of most other lures it just a reaction my other prob is when they not biting for awhile as soon as I look away or take my attention or focus off the frog one hits it hard af an I snatch it right back at me 😆
@@NWTrailSeriestwo solutions, carry a separate rod with an unweighted senko and throw it on the fish you miss. Second, switch to a soft plastic frog or toad, they swallow those things.
@@NWTrailSeriesit’s so hard to wait especially when it’s a big blowup it’s just instinct to set the hook as hard as u can with frogs😂
That’s always been my problem with frogs. I’ve never been able to set the hook on a fish using them. Get hits all the time but damn it it’s aggravating 😂 I’m so used to being as quick on the trigger as possible to keep the bass from swallowing the power worms I usually use so they don’t die and I yank them out of their mouths before I get the hook set. That wait is easier said than done for me lol
Put some floating rubber inside, most weight to cast and stays afloat with water inside. Old flukes/worms work too
Losing fish is what makes catching on a frog so exciting and high skilled
It’s not hard, you just have to let them take it for a couple of seconds
Rather be squeezing my frog than taking off all the pond scum from my lure 😂
Pond scum pisses me off the worst...
Maybe if the companies that make them would spend more time on fixing this instead of coming up with designs for the top of the frog that fish can see…
They're made like this for a reason. The hole allows the air/water inside to get out so the body can collapse and expose the hooks.
They could do away with the hole, which will firm up the body and prevent it from collapsing to expose the hooks.
A decade ago, my friends and I would fish daily and need frogs for the lily pads. Strike kings held up the longest at the time, We'd also cut the tassels down half way so we wouldn't get false bites.
I have a strike kind with the tassels cut about halfway in my tackle box, it's done me well!
There's two types of people in the world, people who admit they squeeze their frog and those that lie and say they don't.
There's only two types of people in this world, the people that divide the world into two groups and those that don't 😂
There's 2 types of frogs in this world the ones that you can squeeze the other ones you don't squeeze 😂
Sometimes squeezing them while upside down makes them squirt more water out of
Pro tip homie. Coat the bottom in mod podge. I do 2 coats and it usually lasts a whole season. Unless your bite is really good lol. The water leaks in around the hooks so coat that area well.
If they have the string legs do you cut them off??
It’s so annoying when you have to give your frog emergency CPR😂
You could try using some food safe silicone, like they use for kitchen counters and sinks, seal up the holes
Anytime I buy a new frog I'll normally cut the streamers a tad bit but I have that exact frog I just use some melted rubber to cover gaps in hook areas an I also bend my hooks a tad to get a better hook set
I sometimes squeeze it upside down, depending on the design of the frog usually works well!
There's no problem! It actually helps with casting and the way it sits lower on the water is more advantageous for hookups.
Real frogs don't float that high up.
Frog fishing is 90% mental bro I swear😭 you gotta have real patience for that shi, especially with how many fish you’ll miss before you figure out the timing of the hook set lmao
Topwater frogs are always my favorite lure and I've never had one fill up with water. Thats crazy.
What frogs you throwin??
@@NWTrailSeries I've had them years so I can't remember what they're called but one of them is solid foam that has a weighted hook (obviously that one can't fill up with water) the other is a thin hollow latex body that has a twin hook that comes up around it's rear end on both sides and I guess the latex seems to hug the hooks where they ass through the body well enough that no water gets in... I've had a bunch just like the current latex ones... Idk if it's just Good luck or what but they've always worked well for me and get hit HARD by bass especially right before sundown
@sumo-ninja most of them are hollow plastic with a weight on the hook now
@@sumo-ninja I've got several from the late early '90s that are also that solid foam with a single hook. I haven't bought new lures in years but from what I can tell the quality of them has just gone down so much.
Agreed.. it's so annoying bit they work soooo good. Esp those hot summer days deep up in the cover
Nothing a little flex seal can't fix! "WOW"
You can fill the gaps around the hook where the water gets in but it’s not permanent or the best solution
when i was a kid we'd use live frogs. you could get them at the bait shop. Talk about some exciting topwater action!
These work very well subsurface, too, so you needn't drain them every time. I like them, but there's too many misses with them. Tried bending hooks outward, but it wasn't weedless afterward.
Frogs are the best for fishing in dense weeds and lily pads but are definitely harder to set hooks on bass.
Some frogs don't fill with water as bad as others. But all frogs get filled with water if they get hit and taken below water but the bass doesn't commit. You get used to squeezing the frog every few casts just to check and make sure 😁
I can not stop laughing😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for this comment my friend, glad to hear it got ya haha😀
Boil it for a little and it will soften the plastic a bit, allowing it to flex when the fish bites, causing more hookups!
Just ordered a few of them, I'll for sure try this 👍
Now, let's talk about frog baseball.🐸
Fill with spray foam, cover the hole with JB Weld 2-part marine epoxy, and paint to match the surrounding color 🤙 best way to do it, yes it takes time but 100% worth it
I like to use oil-based scent and I put it over the hole and squish it something and absorb the oil into it and then it becomes more water resistant because of the whole oil and water thing...
Drill a hole at top into the cavity so water will run out. (Top when dangling.)
That's why I use a sponge frog. It's a solid body soft rubber like a worm but it floats
Cute video. I’d advise using a Booyah poppn pad crasher. The style is most versatile You can pop it, walk it it goes right through cover (The regular nose frogs tip gets stuck on pads and weeds) And they hold together way better. I rarely squeeze my frogs. I personally never cut my legs it’s absolutely insane. Most bass will hit something skirting amongst the surface their opportunist. Big bass Like to make sure before they eat. A pause of a regular legged frog allows the legs to expand slowly just as a real frog does if you observe both. There’s no bigger and stronger bass then froggn bass ✌️🫡🎣 Happy Fishing
Flex seal it's little holes, then re-apply after major wear.
Love to see bass fishing in Washington. We are avid bass fishermen down here in SW Washington.
If you are catching, you are squeezing. Try solid floating soft plastics; they are weedless and the bass hold on ti them longer as they don't feel the hook until you set it.
That quickly debunks the theory of,”is a frogs ass watertight?”
You can modify to keep water from getting in
The first frog lure I used was a vintage foam lure, caught so many fish on it, didn't know it was a vintage until I tried to buy a new one, I cried when I lost that lure
What type of fish are you trying to catch if they prey on frogs?
That lunkerhunt frog sinks sometimes but it’s worth is🔥🔥😮💨
I've noticed if you turn it upside down and squeeze it drains a bit better. Atleast for my guru frogs
Pro tip, keep a small cup of your favorite bass juice and local water in the yak. Every few casts, squeeze it out and then stick it in the cup to suck a couple drops into the frog. If they don't bite the frog you've peppered the area with fish attractant and they will demolish a worm or shad
I had one and it worked really well, if you don't want water to go into it you can take a couple pieces of rubber worm and stuff it where the hook comes into the body.
I've seen a few comments saying you gotta have the airflow to allow the frog to compress during the bite, then the hook has a better chance of setting. So looks like I'll just keep squeezing away lol
You should try a SPIDER LURE.
Why this shit Funny af😂
Our side we have very small snakehead fishes,howany grams grog lure suitable for them
You tend to miss more using top water lures, especially on top of moss or lilly pads, but holy 💩 is it fun. 😂😂😂 Plastic worms with no weight work similarly too. But you wouldn't get to squeeze the frog. 😂
Yeah, but that bite though. I think the thing that everyone needs to know is you need to count for two seconds before setting the hook?
I miss strikes on them all the time, even with a delayed hookset ive lost more fish on a frog than any other lure, thats why i like a weightless texas rigged soft plastic frog much better
They just straight up miss the frog half the time, that plus how often the hooks miss.. Definitely a tricky lure.. I haven't tried a texas rigged soft plastic frog yet, but based on your profile picture I will be looking into it!
@@NWTrailSeriesI just watched a video by a pro angler that said he thinks a lot of times they are hitting it with a closed mouth to stun in and you won't hook those fish anyway. I have been using the soft plastic zoom horny toad rigged like the op mentioned and it works great, but it does sink.
I used the same rigged with a culprit incred frog , very successful even in winter at least hear in South Florida
I use a dabble of clear silicone caulk fixes all my frogs
Put some foam ear plugs in there ,usually works for me!
I’ve had good luck with Spro frogs, they don’t seem to collect water as bad
Good tip with top water frogs if you leave it on your dash for a day or so the plastics get softer and get more hook up with fish 🐟 👍
Just drill a large enough hole in the bottom bout 1/8 or more inch for water to drain out and a same size hole at top for air to come in so it can drain because to drain it needs air
I like fishing them with water in them if they sit lower in the water it attracts more fish
Bending the hooks slightly to give a mm wide gap and like everyone else is saying delay hookset as well
I need help with my frog 🐸...never landed a Bass or PB .... what am I doing wrong ? 🤔
What are your main brands on frogs?
Spro frogs.
The brozeye night walker
And the flappin frog are my favorite so far
Just had the same problem with my new mouse! The squeeze is worth the boil ups
Mine have been getting filled with water this season and unsure why got a new one and it’s floating but lost the weight in it.
I love your kayak. What kind is it if you don’t mind me asking ?
It's an oldtown Sportsman PDL, I have the same one 😁
^ yup!
@@tkk85 thanks! I think I’m going to get one as well.
But did you know you can actually use this to your advantage, to present the frog sub surface, when the fish are being finicky?
Also, if this annoys you so badly, you can always cut a lil slit in the frog, insert a lil strip of pool noodle foam, and glue it back shut with a drop of superglue. That way, the frog always has some residual buoyancy, even if it completely fills up.
Seriously, though... Give that sub surface presentation a try! Real frogs swim under water 90% of the time as well.
Dw this only happens if you actually get action on it, mine is pristine but has also never been in the mouth of a fish 😂
I’ve never been told anything about frog fishing
Lil dab of super glue where the hooks go in and also a quick boil in some water makes em indestructible to bass
Put a little expanding foam in it
Lol I dunno if the hooks would work after that? Is this something you've tried?
That's the dumbest thing about frog fishing I ever heard, my apologies. But think about what you jus said to do 🤔
@@NWTrailSeries nah I was just playing that shit probably won’t work
Dude I have hooked so many bass and pike with the frog, but I always loose about half of them because of the hooks not being the best😂
Spray foam the inside?
Use a daiwa kicker curly from the baitjunkie range, its a soft plastic topwater frog and it will solve your problems
And they even have legs that have a kicking action that creates a motion on the water almost like a whopper plopper
I'm always on the search for more topwater lures! Just checked em out looks sick!
Last time my bro n I went out the topwater was nuts. I definitely wanna be more prepared next time
@@NWTrailSeries well id rather have these over any other topwater its amazing for australian bass and id bet it would be better for largemouth too
The frog looking at him
Get a Booyah Pad Crusher. Never had any water get in a Booyah. I prefer them over spro or any other frog. They also make hollow body spooks and poppers now that are designed weed less like a frog, Idk what brand does and doesn’t though.
Should try ribbit brand frogs , there a soft plastic but not hollow no water gettin in 🤙🏻
Try the Booyah Pad crashers. Hardly ever have to squeeze them.
What if you covered the holes? Would that help or hurt its function?
I keep getting comments on people saying to super glue the holes shut, buuuut.. after thinking about it, that could only hurt your hook up ratio. The holes are there to provide give on the frog to let the hooks do their thing. Just gonna have to keep squeezin
Put a rattle or 2 in it. Makes a big difference
There's a little yellow thing I'm the one that has like the black and yellow stripes on it you should take that little yellow thing out from underneath the frog and it'll immediately drain the water for you and no more water I will get into it
Tip it towards the knot it drains better
Dude. Just use something that doesn't take on water. Lots of things that float. Or make it heavier for underwater movement mimicking
i stopped using them, i got tired of the water issue..
It’s a weird lure you gotta do weird stuff to it to make it work lol
Pedal boat?
It's a pedal fishing kayak
An Old Town Sportsman 106 Pdl
@@NWTrailSeries nice
Get a jackall gavacho, best frog, only takes on water when a giant crushes it
Should i buy the Slx dc or the Curado dc
Are you getting your first baitcaster or your first dc reel?
If it's your first baitcaster I'd recommend getting a daiwa tatula 100 ct. I see some on sale right now for like $115 you can get two for the price of one of those other reels.
and I'll guarantee you'd be super happy with them.
BUT if you are looking to get a dc reel, both of those are massively top rated reels. I've never used either, but I've held them at the store, and seen a million video about them. If I got one, I'd probably get the curado.
@@NWTrailSeries Thanks for the advice 😁
Can you plug the hole with super glue or something?
Catch me on the lake squeezin my frog 🥴
I prefer the pop style; no squeezing needed.
Tiny tiny bit of spray foam😉 also let em take it under for a sec or two it’ll catch u more fish! Good luck man thx for the vids
I love it and can't be surprised at the bar of people that are you guys in a good place for me and you don't have a lot to say to you and you are a little more in my heart keeps me going from the world record and not just being able and not just for me I am so happy birthday to my family so much for just a couple days and a few weeks later this year old boy is in a good place for the first two days and he will have a great time for him and the family to be able and be happy to see you guys again soon and we can get together and see what we have
Seems like you need to closer the rubber ducky hole with some glue or melting it
I always laugh a little. 😂
I use hardplastic frogs those soft plastic ones are good for 2 catches if your lucky pike absolutely destroy softplastic baits
I have that same frog with the lifelike legs, I hate it. Can’t walk it like the frogs with silicone strings.
Dude squeeze the side under the hook 1 squeeze and your done. Or take a sealer and dap it with toothpick bottom hole and hook inlet hole. Happy hunting
Scum frog launch frog.
Or the og scum frogs.
They r not corked. The material itself float.
So no pissing on u.
If u get the big foot ones with paddle feet order replacement legs from blitz frogs. They fit great after a bass rips urs out
Good to know I’m not the only one
There’s a brand frog lure I have where I don’t have to squeeze but I don’t know the brand 😂
It wasn't weird until you made it weird.
I don’t know of I’ve ever picked up a toad or frog and it not pee on me. So it makes it a legit experience.