03-02-2023, 06:38 PM
Hard to beat nighttime giggin' for bullfrogs. But it depends on where you are fishing and your skill level. In both Arizona and California there were lakes that had large populations of aggressive bullfrogs. Wasn't uncommon to have one ambush the popper or shallow diver lure you were fishing for bass.
I like to sight fish them with a flyrod during the daytime. Big frogs eat lots of little frogs, so a good lure was a foam or hair froglet...rigged weedless with a mono loop. The big boys would often lie partially submerged near the shoreline, with just their nose and eyes above the water...waiting to pounce on potential prey. It was a hoot to splat down one of my fillet-o-froglet flies near one of these ambushers and watch the reaction. Often they would launch, fly through the air and come down on the lure mouth first...and then stuff the fly in their mouths with both front feet. Never could translate the sounds that came out of them when I set the hook but I'm sure it was some kind of froggy profanity. There were some trips when it only took a dozen short casts to harvest a dozen big frogs.
I like to sight fish them with a flyrod during the daytime. Big frogs eat lots of little frogs, so a good lure was a foam or hair froglet...rigged weedless with a mono loop. The big boys would often lie partially submerged near the shoreline, with just their nose and eyes above the water...waiting to pounce on potential prey. It was a hoot to splat down one of my fillet-o-froglet flies near one of these ambushers and watch the reaction. Often they would launch, fly through the air and come down on the lure mouth first...and then stuff the fly in their mouths with both front feet. Never could translate the sounds that came out of them when I set the hook but I'm sure it was some kind of froggy profanity. There were some trips when it only took a dozen short casts to harvest a dozen big frogs.