Tadpoles for bait
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05/07/23 03:23 PM
05/07/23 03:23 PM
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foxkidd44
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I’ve been getting tons of big ol bullfrog tadpoles in my minnow traps lately.. has anyone used them for bait?? How do you hook them? And what usually hits on them?
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Tadpoles for bait
[Re: foxkidd44]
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05/07/23 08:22 PM
05/07/23 08:22 PM
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Oakland, MS
Drifter
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Might check on legality of using them as bait.
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Re: Tadpoles for bait
[Re: Drifter]
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05/07/23 09:22 PM
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foxkidd44
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Might check on legality of using them as bait. I looked in the fishing regulations Pete, there wasn’t anything about them listed. Bout the closest was bullfrogs.
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Tadpoles for bait
[Re: KeithC]
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05/07/23 10:10 PM
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Chancey
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I fished with tadpoles and caught some fish with tadpoles when I was a kid and even fed some pretty good sized bass in aquariums with tadpoles. It's best to hook tadpoles in the lips. They are usually not very good bait. In my aquariums, a lot of fish would hit the tadpoles as soon as I dropped them in and then rapidly spit them out. They would then rapidly move their lips in a similar way to what they did after spitting out lightning bugs. I suspect tadpoles don't taste very good, maybe because of toxins or diet.
I did have 1 large mouth bass that would gorge on tadpoles.
Keith I've hooked a many of big tadpole on a hook fishing for catfish. Never got a bite. Agree with Keith, something about them the fish don't like. But, once they turn into frogs, it is game on as far as baits go. Leopard frogs in the summer and early fall make some of the best bait ever.
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Re: Tadpoles for bait
[Re: foxkidd44]
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05/08/23 01:31 AM
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Knew bullfrogs have a limit on them. Being considered a game species wouldn't be surprised if tadpoles aren't as well.
Some individuals use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic
Life member NTA , and GA Trappers assoc .
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Re: Tadpoles for bait
[Re: foxkidd44]
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05/08/23 04:43 AM
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We call them (tadpoles) polliwogs here
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Re: Tadpoles for bait
[Re: Drifter]
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05/08/23 09:00 AM
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foxkidd44
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Knew bullfrogs have a limit on them. Being considered a game species wouldn't be surprised if tadpoles aren't as well. I’ll get ahold of the cpo to see what he thinks.
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Tadpoles for bait
[Re: foxkidd44]
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05/08/23 12:11 PM
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As far as fragile, they sure last awhile in low oxygen environments… the batteries on my aereator(sp) died overnight… my minnows was dead,, but the tadpoles were quite lively
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Tadpoles for bait
[Re: foxkidd44]
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05/08/23 12:43 PM
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KeithC
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As far as fragile, they sure last awhile in low oxygen environments… the batteries on my aereator(sp) died overnight… my minnows was dead,, but the tadpoles were quite lively Tadpoles can breathe surface air. In a bucket, tadpoles will swim up and poke their lips out of the water to breathe. I once caught over 16,800 green nose frog tadpoles in 2 days once and transported them in 2 trips, in very crowded buckets, in the trunk, back seat, floorboards and front seat seat of a Pontiac 6000. I sold them all for 25 cents each, to a large pet store chain. Keith
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Re: Tadpoles for bait
[Re: foxkidd44]
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05/08/23 08:38 PM
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foxkidd44
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Wow!! That is a lot of tadpoles
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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