Anyone ever figure out how to makea frog trap that works ? Was thinking about how I was always trying to trap bull fronha as a kid for some reason . Gigging , grabbing and shooting was easy always wanted to trap them .

Lookin at it now figure you could probably make something like a pigeon trap with the weird little wire leg doors and put one or two of them lil solar garden lights in it. Set it in a inch or two of water , light attracts bugs , frogs push in to get to the bugs .... Most of the ponds round here seem to be low on frogs due to the snakes so can't really test it out .

Seen videos on YouTube and Facebook of the. Folks in place like Vietnam trapping frogs with these deals that look like little bitty slat traps . Bait them with dead fish ... But apparently they have a different Theo of frog that eats about anything instead of ours where it's gotta be alive and moving.

Any one figured anything out other then shooting gigging or grabbing ?

Never trapped them, the easiest way was to use a fly rod around 9 footer,
Use a small triple hook, put a red or white piece of cloth on it.
Dangle it in front of them, and catch all you could in the area.
Now they have limits, and not sure what's legal now.
A trap would be interesting, just how would you get the frog to commit to it?

Researchers set up basic funnel traps with long wings to catch frogs and other amphibians. They work really well.

It's similar to catching fish, armadillos, or groundhogs.

Keith

Make a funnel trap out of chicken wire. The outside of which will just fit in a black garbage bag. The funnel hole itself should be just big enough to let frogs and small fish in and not muskrats or turtles. Works year round. The black bag gives it a log appearance, winter or summer. Have no idea if its legal in your state.

In winter a frog can absorb oxygen thru skin, don't know what limit would be in warmer weather before they would drown, I never did experience that.

When I was a kid old car tires was flimsy and if left stacked up the beads would go together. Sometimes I would just drill holes and tie beads together. Then cut about a 5'' hole in the tread and tie a rope near there. Throw it in the creek and go down there in the hot part of day and pull it out fast , the rope had to be by the hole so the catfish and frogs didn't wash out before you got it pulled out. Had to be fast with the dip net when a frog washed out. It was a hit and miss operation and time consuming, but as a kid I had plenty of that ! Not so much anymore and time is getting shorter everyday now, lol.

Id start with something less challenging like mice or crickets. Ive heard frogs can be spooky, smart , and evasive not to mention there size and them being hard on equipment. Dont jump in the deep end before you know how to swim grasshopper.

Where I live now, (southern central Oregon), we have a lot of bull frogs. A couple weeks ago I was on an ADC job removing muskrats from an agriculture property that has a large canal for irrigation. The canal is lined with cat tails on one side, and the rats were cutting tails there and de-stabilizing the canal. I set 110s in most of the trails through the cat tails and ended up catching several bullfrogs. Not a high-percentage set for frogs specifically, but I guess it happens.

Would a fishing license be required?

In Mo, either a hunting or fishing permit works.

If the coons don;t mess it up. We used the red patch on a fish pole until we got the pellet gun
just.

… my goodness yall make things entirely too complicated

… W’Dawg … if you want to fry up a mess of frog legs … get your ol 4 D cell mag light… shine it right in their eyes and snatch em up …. Then bust em against a tree until they turn inside out and put em on a fish stringer

…. I swear…. This is gettin more ridiculous ever day around here lol

We have rules on method of take on bull frogs here. I dont think trapping them is legal

… Well … why don’t you share the rules with the class

.. you know… in case we end up in Kansas trying to gig a frog

Be faster if u looked them up. I dont think i have the regs here. I might have broke a rule or the few times ive gotten a mess of frog legs.

… that wasn’t helpful at all

… I thought we were a community!!!!

LOL Why stumble around in the middle of the night, when you can just use a fishing pole all day long, and see so much better.
Laws in every state seem to be different.
Check them out so it's still a fun gig , and not costly.

CSK
Well every village needs an idiot. Though we might have to much competition for it here.

… yes sir … I’m sorry…. I’ll start catching them with a fishing pole from this day forward

SMH Don't be! , it's your choice , if that's what you like do it.
I just like doing things the easy way anymore.
A tree cabin for deer hunting really makes sense as you get older.
LOL

…. All this time I thought stoppin by a slough with a flashlight on the way home from the honkey tonk was the best way to get some frog legs

… now I’m gonna skip work and catch them with a fishing pole

… thank you for the advice

LOL Not getting in that car!

… like you said .. I can see em during the day

… I’m dragging up from work lol

LOL Been there and done that, same as gigging suckers in the spring.
Stumbling around by flashlight because it seemed like a good idea.

….I’ll tell you this right now OW … you quoted my post before I edited it …. Typing on this phone is hard enough as it is …. Much more if a man is several lonestars deep

… looks like something PF or WD would type

… I’m entering myself into the Betty Ford clinic first thing Monday morning

There's a great many more frogs out at night, than during the day. In super heavily populated areas, you can do okay during the day. In areas with lower populations, night is the time to hunt frogs.

Just remember to make sure to tie the pillowcase. A friend of mine didn't. Out of 30 frogs, only one stayed inside. He had just come back from camping. Finding 29 frogs, guts hanging out, in a packed van, at 4:00am, in the dark, is not a good time. That van stunk until he junked it.

Keith

LOL Just be you, we all understand.

Why wait till Monday?

Don't sound like there is much demand for frog traps. Wonder if there would be any demand for little wheel chairs for all those legless frogs. What has ever happened to the corporate conscience in this country, lol ?

lol

Duck Dynasty bro’s caught them with their hands. No need for traps.

Sure would hate for Jeremiah to get out drinking wine and get his foot caught in a frog trap !

Show me a country kid that didn't catch them by hand.
LOL We made bows and arrows, out of hickory for bows, and arrows out of dry weed stalks ( can't remember the weed name) 1/2 inch roofing nails flattened on an anvil for arrow heads. Chicken feathers for flues.
What a great childhood we had.

LOL Just be you!

^^^ did you listen to the song OW

… it’s a spoof of the highwaymen… it’s hilarious

…. Did you like it ?

Spearing (gigging) suckers is one of the best memories of my childhood!

I like it!!

But wait...... is this song about LT Grey?

^^ awww the mousie lyric in there

…. That’s funny lol

"Me and Miss Mousie had a thing you won't believe.......many a tadpole wound up with a taste for cheese."

… yeah that is a funny little side bar now that you mention it lol

Maybe cheese is the new go-to bait for GREY foxes?

Everyone didn't grow up wading up a creek with a light and gig stabbing frogs on the bank? I remember riding on dads shoulders b/c the water was too high for my short stuff. Now that I mention it I was young enough to think it was amazing dad knew how to get the bridge where we got out at way late after dark. Like how you know where you going old man? lol He died in 04.

PM me the Grey update Yote if ya wanna. He's a local fella. Mousie and Angela was the other one. Angela was the coordinator on the ND HVAC line at that Chrysler plant I was telling you about. We made every HVAC that went in that Dodge Dakota from 05 on. Small world.

As kids we took a 5gal bucket and sunk it along the shoreline then filled with 6 or 8 inches of water then took a couple of gunny sacks and made wings with them, it works okish especially where there’s a lot of frogs

We would check and remove any caught frogs every morning, there were usually several in each trap, back then we got .35 cents a pound for them and the guy would come once a week to pick them up, I believe they finally ended up on some high school biology lab table being dissected, but back then 70/80s the money was welcome it was way more then the 80 bucks a month my friend who ran a paper route seven days a week made, add in gopher trapping money and life was good then

LOL Yes, the sail cat brought back memories.

[quote=KeithC]There's a great many more frogs out at night, than during the day. In super heavily populated areas, you can do okay during the day. In areas with lower populations, night is the time to hunt frogs.

Just remember to make sure to tie the pillowcase. A friend of mine didn't. Out of 30 frogs, only one stayed inside. He had just come back from camping. Finding 29 frogs, guts hanging out, in a packed van, at 4:00am, in the dark, is not a good time. That van stunk until he junked it.

Keith[/quote

Actually I think there's the same amount weather day or night.
Just easier to see the eyes at night.
Harder to see frogs in the green plants during the day.
Last time I took two boys with each of us with 9 foot spinning rods, caught 48 in about an hour.

Bull frogs don't get as big in the north as they do in the south either.
Sell fun to fry up a bunch of legs.