Frog Hunt

[Green Horn]

Anybody do any frog hunting? I'd like to do some frog hunting in the spring. I live in Ellensburg. Anyone have any ideas? Anyone want to go? 

[rainshadow1]

Some of those lakes should have a few...

I've caught them on flies and a little frog bait, flies worked the best. Just creep along with the kayak, find them, then dangle a dry fly 3" above them with the longest fly rod you have! Hookup almost every time.

[boneaddict]

I hunt them with a camera.   I never really thought about harvest.    I guess some of the toads around here might get big enough to consume......

[Angry Perch]

Only place I've seen bullfrogs is in a couple golf course ponds. I'd love to find a huntable (giggable?) population. We used to whack dozens of leopard frogs as kids in MN and skin them and eat the legs. I think it would take a couple hundred to make a meal!

[TheStovePipeKid]

I bought a gig a few years back because we had frogs at the lake in the community. Invariably the big ones were nowhere to be seen once I had the tool to harvest. I'm still interested but it's low on my hunting priority list still.

[2MANY]

"I've caught them on flies and a little frog bait, flies worked the best. Just creep along with the kayak, find them, then dangle a dry fly 3" above them with the longest fly rod you have! Hookup almost every time."

Bet that would work on Nancy Pelosi as well.

[rasbo]

Haven't here but have gigged hundreds of them tasty devil's. I've seen and heard them but not in enough numbers to get me excited

[DOUBLELUNG]

As a kid in PA I used a curly tail grub on a long pole to catch bullfrogs.  Lower it about a foot in front of them and vibrate it on the surface, they'd jump forward and inhale the plastic bait.

[walt]

Anybody do any frog hunting? I'd like to do some frog hunting in the spring. I live in Ellensburg. Anyone have any ideas? Anyone want to go? 

I grew up in Eburg and caught hundreds of bullfrogs in the ditch behind our house, just a few blocks north of campus.  Not sure what condition it's in now but 35 years ago that ditch was known locally as "The Ganges".   I'd look along the river in back eddies and side channels or any of the local lakes/ponds.  Gladmar used to be a good one, same with Fio Rito, or anywhere along Wilson Creek.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Caught quite a few while bass fishing with rubber frogs.
But west-side frogs might be different.

[huntnphool]

 We used to use our Crossman 760’s. They were deadly on the big ones you couldn’t get close enough to gig....sure miss those days growing up.

[Remnar]

 There are plenty of Bullfrogs in WA and they are an invasive species although a long standing one . Cant speak specifically to E-burg area . But I would bet most ponds, small lakes or slow moving waterways with habitat i.e. Cattail and aquatic vegetation holds them .

 Been years but we used to gig them . Good eats !

[ThurstonCokid]

Lots of frogs in the area! I started gigging in the Yakima area. I dont go often maybe a time or 2 a year. Pretty fun and if you can get past them being frogs they are pretty tasty. I’ll try to see if i have any pics.


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[The Marquis]

Anybody know any spots in SW WA where these suckers live?  I listen for em, but no luck yet.  My kid has been bugging me about catching frogs for quite a while and I have to constantly stop him from going after the native protected frogs.

[ThurstonCokid]

here’s a pic from southwest Washington. Took my girlfriend’s little bro