Re: Frog Gigging
[Re: lildrankee]
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05/16/20 01:59 PM
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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
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Re: Frog Gigging
[Re: ebsurveyor]
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05/16/20 02:20 PM
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Back in the day I caught them on hook and line. These came out of the pond in the back and were a 1969 limit of Oklahoma frogs. What did you use for bait?
-Ryan
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Re: Frog Gigging
[Re: lildrankee]
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05/16/20 02:41 PM
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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
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Re: Frog Gigging
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Back in the day I caught them on hook and line. These came out of the pond in the back and were a 1969 limit of Oklahoma frogs. What did you use for bait? 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.
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Re: Frog Gigging
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05/16/20 02:58 PM
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Back in the day I caught them on hook and line. These came out of the pond in the back and were a 1969 limit of Oklahoma frogs. What did you use for bait? I caught them that way with just a piece of orange ribbon as bait.
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Re: Frog Gigging
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05/16/20 03:14 PM
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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.
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Re: Frog Gigging
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When I was a kid we speared frogs at every opportunity. Bullfrogs being the main quarry, but Green Frogs a 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 any 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 Da glee a hook in their face. It bothers me 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.
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Re: Frog Gigging
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05/16/20 05:04 PM
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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.
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Re: Frog Gigging
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05/16/20 09:42 PM
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Growing up in the swamps of southern Georgia its surprising to hear of states with bag limits on bullfrogs. Or seasons.
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