Frog Gigging season started yesterday here in ky. Went out last night but didn’t have any luck. Let me know if y’all frog gig and tell me a bit about it.

Nice.I some love frog legs.

Y’all have a season, lol?

I ate frog legs a couple of times as a kid when we would catch 6 or 8 of them. Didn't think they tasted too bad back then. Me and the kids caught and cleaned a dozen or so a couple of years ago and man were they bad. Two of my kids thought they were OK but I thought they smelled and tasted too fishy for me. Wife explained there wasn't any need to cook them in her house again since she hates fish and the smell of them... Not sure why i thought they were ok 30 years ago and think they are bad now...

Can't gig em anymore in Nebraska. Got a 4 inch minimum size limit here, so the smaller ones have to be released unharmed.





Charlie

Back in the day I caught them on hook and line. These came out of the pond in the back and were a 1970 limit of Oklahoma frogs.

It's been awhile since I have been but took my daughter out gigging for her first time the other night we got 21. Then while skinning them we decided to learn what frogs eat, I was very Surprised to see snakes and turtles in there stomachs. We started out trying to get them to bite a crappie jig but ended up just gigging them all. I videoed the hole deal and it made a nice video. We hit 8 ponds but only got frogs out of 3. Over half came from one pond.

What did you use for bait?

Been a long time since I went. But did plenty when younger. I loved it because it was dark and we got to wade the creeks... and also because my pop let me smoke a cigar for skeeters. We usually barehanded them. At the end you could put the dinks back to grow and seed next time. We cleaned that night and soaked in salt water and battered and fried em the next day. Sadly there not around the creeks like before. Now days folks get permish from golf courses and come out with sack fulls. But it ain’t as fun as the creeks. Nothing will put the fear of the night in you like a school of carp swimming into you in the pitch black in water up to your chin.

Around 1980 I guided on a big spring creek in northern California and there were big spring fed lakes around us. The frogs were huge and tasted great because they lived in gin clear water. No limit and you could fill a gunny sack in 3 hours with two guys. I miss eating them.

Pete

While fishing I saw a big frog eat a smaller frog. I had a rubber weedless frog fishing lure. I would just cast it in front of a frog and they would try to eat the lure. My line broke trying to land a big one and I lost the lure. Something like this: Click here The video shows them catching a frog.

I caught them that way with just a piece of orange ribbon as bait.

When I was a kid we speared frogs at every opportunity. Bullfrogs being the main quarry, but Green Frogs and big Leopard Frogs were fair game. We'd clean them and my mother would fry them up. Then, in the summer of 69, while visiting an uncle in northern Wisconsin, I hand caught the biggest Bullfrog I'd laid eyes on. I immediately decided to spare it's life and made a pet out of it. We were in the process of moving to a small lake in central Michigan at the time, and I ended up turning the pet frog loose there. The lake was loaded with Bullfrogs and I continued my frog leg gathering. That Wisconsin frog had a distinct spot on his/her back, and I would always make sure my target didn't have that. Fast forward a couple years and I was spearing a mess to fry up. You guessed it....I accidentally speared that Wisconsin Bullfrog. It literally sickened me and I felt like (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). That was, if memory serves me, the last Bullfrog I ever speared. I still ate frog legs, but I used a fishing rod and dangle a hook in their face. It bothers me yet today when I think about killing that frog.

Interesting. One day in OK I caught a huge one. I took it home and showed it to a few people and then released it.

Butch, I used to feesh for them all the time. A purple rubber worm, hooked texas style has fed me many meals of legs! Ya get a bonus bass every once in awhile too! Hooked up like that, you can work it back in under bushes and places you wouldn't dare try to dangle a hook. Plus, it's a hoot watching a frog use his front legs to stuff a big rubber worm in it's mouth. If the hook don't set, they will usually take it over and over till you hook them!

Cool. I also 22ed a bunch of them, head shots only or they will swim away.

Growing up in the swamps of southern Georgia its surprising to hear of states with bag limits on bullfrogs.

I guess I need to read up on the rules here.
I generally practice 'sack limit'. Once the sack is full, I go home. Sooner if I run out of beer.

Or seasons.

We can't shoot them and can't use lights.

Go here for a look at all State's current regulations. Click here Looks like things are pretty much the same in OK "In the state of Oklahoma for the 2020 frog gigging season, there is a limit of 15 bullfrogs per day that may be taken per person.".

We have a limit and season here in MS.

Seasons too. Frogs enjoy no legal protection here in Ga.

In these swamps there are so many that you cannot hear anything but frogs if you're near water during warmer weather

Plus, here in the south...where you hear/see frogs is where the cottonmouths are....just about everywhere there is water. As a kid we gigged and shot bullfrogs with .22. Most nights we killed more cottonmouths than frogs.

I'd like to have that many frogs, you can keep the cotton mouths please and thank you lol. Are season starts up second Friday in June, limit is 15.

That sounds pretty good leftlane. We got 42 legs now but I am thinking of frying some fish with them and keeping some frog legs back to try different recipes with. Go see if you can find that ol girl and her recipe. It sure sounds good.

I bought a gig a few weeks back but need to find a pole. Any suggestions on a good pole? Haven't been in probably 30 years.

Best thing I have found is get you some aluminum 1/2 conduit. Light and never breaks !!!!

22 short hollow points. But also carry a gig makes it easier to retrieve.,

I'll give that conduit a go. Thanks for the info.

Oh forgot to mention if 10 ft section not long enough get some that is threaded just use coupling and add more to suit. I took a 10 ft piece and cut it and threaded it so I can take it apart and transport it easier !!!

Biggest one i ever caught

I brought him inside to show my daughter cause she loves frogs. That's her foot in the picture.she was 5 years old at the time. That's our kitchen floor, those squares are 12"×12". I also let him go.she made me lol.we ate the rest

I will tell my wife to make me what you have described leftlane.

I had some painter's poles left over from when I built my house so I used the one that existed. Never had to extend it but if I need too I could have. The conduit will work though.

Haha she is prolly getting bored makin' you all them sammiches so get after her every now and then. The Bible calls for us to honor our wives.

Took Big Bud out Friday night... got 18 and saw a dozen gators

Swampwolf..... no gators were harmed even though they’re made out of tasty meat lol

One of my wives complained about the legs jumping around in the pan.