Ever Caught A Bullfrog While Fishing? 2024
pbizzle reply :
I was watching Facts of Fishing and saw him catch a bullfrog on a hollow body frog. How common is this? Have you done it?
Not_Here reply :
i've caught them on hollowbodies, bullfrogs eat say like leopard frogs and what ever else can fit in their mouths...i think in the bullfrog mind it goes a little something like this "me see food, me eat, gulp"
Bluebasser86 reply :
I've done it several times. Some places there's so many big bullfrogs it gets really annoying when they keep chasing the frog and I keep having to reel it away from them. We used to use a grub on a aberdeen hook to catch bullfrogs for frog legs when I was a kid.
Wayne P. reply :
Yes, several times. I used a small single hook weedguard frog I think was made by Berkley--about 30 years ago.
Bull frogs are cannibles and eat their own.
Grizzn N Bassin reply :
Yea I have to I hook em in the lip...only happened to me once tho and it was on a hollow body frog
Grizzn N Bassin reply :
It was a SK sexy frog how could a frog resist!
pbizzle reply :
Man, I've been left out of this bullfrog stuff. I did have a water moccasin chase my frog once but that's it.
TheMightyQuinn reply :
One time I had a bullfrog engulf the 9 inch lizard I was throwing. The entire lizard and 5/0 hook was in its mouth...
Dyerbassman reply :
Frogs around here love my plastic worms.
Snakehead Whisperer reply :
Had to dig through my photos but I finally found one. This frog just jumped on top of my lure but didn't try to eat it. This frog was released mostly unharmed. Caught on a sexy shad Spro popper frog.
I've since learned to differentiate a frog from a fish strike, so I don't really catch them anymore. But they strike pretty frequently. I've also caught a lot of birds and northern watersnakes on topwater 
The snakes are fun, the birds are just mean.
pbizzle reply :
I imagine that they don't really fight, but just feel like you're bringing in some weeds.
CPBassFishing reply :
I've caught at least a dozen this summer. The ponds I fish have about a foot of floating scum all along the bank and whenever I fish frogs along the bank and they come out of the cattails and eat it.
Christian M reply :
I've caught several big bullfrogs using hollow body frogs. I've heard that bullfrogs are territorial and will chase anything that comes within their area, I don't know how true that is. I did read an article about a technique using frogs to catch Lunker bass. The article recommended using a splitshot or dropshot rig to weigh the frog down using a leader that gives the frog just enough line for the frog to barely reach the surface. It said that the commotion of the frog trying to reach the surface would attract big bass. Never tried it though.
Mr. Wilson reply :
one time my uncle caught a goose--yeah that was interesting--broke the line though---poor bird--lol
McFurie reply :
never caught but ive seen em tryn smash it was using a live target frog in the bullfrog color i honestly thought he was tryn to mate with it
Snakehead Whisperer reply :
On 9/22/2013 at 1:15 AM, Mr. Wilson said:one time my uncle caught a goose--yeah that was interesting--broke the line though---poor bird--lol
I catch seagulls quite a bit in the fall on poppers. They're rarely hooked, however. They usually will hold onto the lure until I reel them in though, then give me a dirty look as if I'm stealing their fish. They don't fight very well.
Once I caught a peregrine falcon on a popper. It was hooked on it's foot. Unhooking and releasing that bird was one of the scariest things I've done while fishing, but I got it done without getting attacked.
Big Jon reply :
I just caught one the other day on a Booyah frog.
Bluebasser86 reply :
On 9/22/2013 at 4:49 AM, Snakehead Whisperer said:I catch seagulls quite a bit in the fall on poppers. They're rarely hooked, however. They usually will hold onto the lure until I reel them in though, then give me a dirty look as if I'm stealing their fish. They don't fight very well.
Once I caught a peregrine falcon on a popper. It was hooked on it's foot. Unhooking and releasing that bird was one of the scariest things I've done while fishing, but I got it done without getting attacked.
I caught an owl on a jitterbug while I was night fishing several years ago. Thankfully it crash landed in some blackberry bushes and pulled the hooks loose or he would have been keeping my jitterbug.
coryn h. fishowl reply :
No bullfrogs, but i've had a leopard frog latch on and try to mate with a koppler
Diggy reply :
I havent but I did have some giant godzilla like lizard come after my frog on repeated casts
Bankbeater reply :
I have never caught one, but I have had several chase a spro frog across the lake.
QUAKEnSHAKE reply :
A little over a week ago caught one. Had an ika on put the rod down to use lipless crank rod and the ika rod started moving. Im like wth grabbed ika rod and frog on with trokar hook poking out side of its mouth.
tholmes reply :
I've caught a few bullfrogs on hollow-bodied frogs and on weightless t-rigged plastics.
I once had an osprey grab a Zara Spook and fly off with it. Fortunately, he didn't get hooked. I'm sure that if he had, it wouldn't have ended well.
Tom
pbizzle reply :
On 9/24/2013 at 9:11 PM, coryn h. fishowl said:No bullfrogs, but i've had a leopard frog latch on and try to mate with a koppler
Sure you weren't using a horny toad?
Felix77 reply :
Caught one on a senko before. Had to dig for the picture.
Snakehead Whisperer reply :
On 9/25/2013 at 10:26 PM, Felix77 said:Caught one on a senko before. Had to dig for the picture.
Big Frog on a Senko.jpg
Big Frog on a Senko.jpgThat thing's a monster. Nice frog. New PB?
lanzbass reply :
Did somebody say grub ?
Felix77 reply :
On 9/26/2013 at 3:20 AM, Snakehead Whisperer said:That thing's a monster. Nice frog. New PB?
It is 
pbizzle reply :
On 9/25/2013 at 10:26 PM, Felix77 said:Caught one on a senko before. Had to dig for the picture.
That's the biggest bullfrog I've ever seen.
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