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Best way to fish a topwater hollow body frog?
The best technique for fishing a topwater hollow body frog is to use a slow and enticing presentation. The hollow body frog is designed to float on the surface and mimic a helpless or injured frog, which can trigger the bass's predatory instincts.
To fish a hollow body frog effectively, cast it near areas with cover such as bushes, logs, floating debris, or weeds. Allow the frog to sit on the surface for a period of time, ranging from one minute to five minutes, to entice the bass. During this time, you can give the frog little twitches and movements to make it appear barely alive. This slow and subtle action can make the frog irresistible to bass that are reluctant to chase down faster-moving baits.
The key is to make the frog look helpless and vulnerable, which often triggers the bass to strike. It's important to be patient and let the frog sit for extended periods, as sometimes it takes time for the bass to become enticed or irritated enough to strike.
The best time to use a hollow body frog is during the spring when the water temperatures are around 50 degrees Fahrenheit and up through the post-spawn period. This is when bass are often buried in cover and may be less willing to chase baits. The hollow body frog can be a highly effective topwater bait during this time.
Additionally, the video mentions another option called a toad, which is an in-between range bait that has legs that flop around and cause disturbance on the water. This can be another effective option for fishing in heavy cover.
Overall, the key to fishing a topwater hollow body frog is to use a slow and enticing presentation, allowing the frog to sit on the surface and giving it subtle movements to make it appear alive. Patience is key, as it may take time for the bass to strike.
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Spring Bass Fishing Top To Bottom | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → A hollow body frog is the opposite. It floats and can sit there forever in one
spot. So it's a great way to work in area really
slow, especially if the bass are buried up in cover and are reluctant to chase baits
down. You can entice them with a hollow body frog,
just letting it sit there and just giving it little twitches and little movements to
make it barely look alive. And you can work one minute to five minutes
on one cast, one retrieve, go and past little areas where the bass are or hold up on like
flooded bushes or underneath floating logs for example. Floating branches, floating debris, or if
they're buried up in the weeds, you can let it sit over the top of their heads and just
twitch it and entice or antagonize them depending on what you wanna think. Work it real slowly in order to get those
bass to come up and smack it. You want it to look helpless. That's the key. That's a lot of times what triggers their
instincts to go up and crush it. That presentation works when the water temps
are around 50 all the way up through into post-spawn in the same areas where I mentioned
with the buzzbaits. So hollow body frog is another topwater bait
that works throughout the spring. And then in the middle of it is that is a
toad. Toad's got those legs like a Rage Toad that
flop around. They cause a little bit of disturbance on
the water. I like to use that.
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5 Best Lures For Spring Bass Fishing | How To | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → But it's a great way to fish when the fish
are actively feeding. The other type of topwaters that I like to
use is a toad and a hollow body frog. So, going on the other end of the spectrum,
think of it this way, a buzzbait moves very fast across the surface. On the other end of it, you can use a hollow
body frog because it sits, and floats on the surface, and doesn't move at all. So, this is a great, effective way to fish
those isolated pieces of cover that the fish are holding on when they're a little more
reluctant, they don't wanna chase down a bait. You can bring that frog right to it, and let
it sit, and just give it little twitches with your rod tip, and make it look alive without
moving it away from that cover. And you're gonna sit for 30 seconds, or a
minute, or more, just let it sit, sit, sit, and then you give it a little twitch, and
suddenly, bam, the fish will hit it. Surprises you because you would think they'd
hit it right away, but sometimes you have to entice them or irritate them, depending
on your point of view, until they finally come up and crush that frog. But you can fish that topwater really slow
and get a lot of bites that way. The in-between range between a hollow body
frog and a buzzbait is a toad, like a Rage Toad. It's a real subtle movement, you can fish
them slower.
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What Makes a Frog the Best Heavy Cover Topwater Lure by Wired2Fish → I'd have to say that probably one of the most engaging and exciting ways to fish is throwing a hollow body frog because you're seeing the strike you're creating the movement in the bait and it's typically around heavy cover so it's kind of a battle situation and it's a good way to catch big ones and that is heavy cover hollow body frog in right there at it your finest with the Terminator walking frog Junior this fish is a perfect example of why the hollow body frog is taking the fishing world by storm I caught that fish all the way on the backside of that heavy grass line and pull them all the way up and over top so we'll get into a couple of the features of what allow us to be able to do that the thing that makes a hollow body frog so unique is that there's really not another bait out there that can be fished the same way that it can you know there's a lot of baits you can fish around similar types of cover right you could fish around heavy cover and and flip or throw a spinner bait around it but there's really not a lot of topwater baits that you can throw around really heavy vegetation and you know throw it on the backside of a heavy grass wall really the hollow-body frog is the only option that you have for
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What Makes a Frog the Best Heavy Cover Topwater Lure by Wired2Fish → that and there's a lot of times that those fish especially around the spawn right when they are on the beds or just coming off the spawn those fish will get rid under the surface and a top water bait is the best way to catch them and if those fish are positioned around grass really a hollow body frog because of the way that it's designed the way that it's built is gonna be my go-to and the best way to catch those big bass one of the most important things when you're fishing a hollow body frog is hook up ratio and there's several design features that are really going to help allow the bait to get into a fish's mouth a little bit deeper and allow those hooks to penetrate deeper and the first thing is with this frog is the exclusive designed VMC frog hook it's specifically designed for this frog to give it a perfect fit and the other thing you can see is how perfect the gap is in the angle of the hook so that you're still able to get it through that extra thick cover and come out clean but just enough gap to be able to drive the hook into those big fish the next thing is the weight the design of the weight the shape where that hook is not hitting that weight so that allows when this frog that's a whole body frog when it
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Frog Fishing - Everything You Need To Know! by TacticalBassin → fish out but if you guys are if you guys love top water fishing and you've never thrown a soft body or a hollow body frog you guys are definitely messing missing out let me show you a frog you know it's a it's a rubber or a plastic body typically fairly soft soft now this is a new frog that i've been playing around with and uh it's kind of funny i picked this one up this is actually a scum frog and i will tell you out of the package that is by far the softest frog i have ever grabbed it's so soft very it walks very easily but anyways uh it's a soft hollow belly frog typically two really start us stout hooks and you have your legs later on this video i'll give you guys a couple different tips to help walk your frog to give your frog better action but you have your your soft legs some frogs have uh where are they at some some frogs have different types of legs some have little kicker feet some are cupped to walk like a like an old jitter jitter bug and then some are just basic hollow body with uh with legs so so many different choices on the market and that's what today's video is going to be about is how to simplify it and pick the best out of each category but if you find yourself in those situations
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Fishing Floating Frogs for Bass by Wired2Fish → fishing a top water frog is one of my favorite techniques when I fishing flooded cover you talk about some crazy crazy strikes you'll get them with this I promise you all right when you're using the top water frog in this flooding cover don't be afraid to get in there and the nastiest stuff you can find banging around in there if you've got a bunch of overhangs cast that frog right at it knock it all down it'll get out this way and it's very snag resistant so don't worry about that so this evening it's pretty calm not much of a wind so you can pop these SPRO bronze eye-popping frogs of course like the name implies but what you also can do is trim the legs I trim one of them about maybe 1/2 inch quarter inch shorter than the other one and when you walk it or when you fish it you just slowly pop your rod to just like that and then once you pop it you want to barely feel your bait on there on the other line on the other end of the line and you want to give it some slack and it will walk just like a walking top water hard bait or something like that now the biggest tip I can give you for properly setting the hook on one of these frogs is hold your horses now when you have a fish come and blow up on it
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