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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: Green Horn on December 18, 2019, 09:00:07 AM

Title: Frog Hunt
Post by: Green Horn on December 18, 2019, 09:00:07 AM: 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? :dunno: :dunno: :dunno:
Title: Re: Frog Hunt
Post by: rainshadow1 on December 18, 2019, 09:55:02 AM: 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.
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Post by: boneaddict on December 18, 2019, 10:05:53 AM: 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......
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Post by: Angry Perch on December 18, 2019, 10:29:26 AM: 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!
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Post by: TheStovePipeKid on December 18, 2019, 11:29:14 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Frog Hunt
Post by: 2MANY on December 18, 2019, 11:42:47 AM: "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.
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Post by: rasbo on December 18, 2019, 11:56:38 AM: 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
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on December 18, 2019, 12:39:35 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Frog Hunt
Post by: walt on December 18, 2019, 01:09:56 PM: Quote from: Green Horn on December 18, 2019, 09:00:07 AM
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? :dunno: :dunno: :dunno:
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". :chuckle: 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.
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Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on December 18, 2019, 02:43:34 PM: Caught quite a few while bass fishing with rubber frogs.
But west-side frogs might be different.
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Post by: huntnphool on December 18, 2019, 03:25:04 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Frog Hunt
Post by: Remnar on December 18, 2019, 07:57:14 PM: 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 . :twocents:

Been years but we used to gig them . Good eats !
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Post by: ThurstonCokid on December 19, 2019, 09:16:38 AM: 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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Title: Re: Frog Hunt
Post by: The Marquis on December 19, 2019, 09:50:04 AM: 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.
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Post by: ThurstonCokid on December 19, 2019, 10:20:30 AM: (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191219/dedb324b111090800f7c3485c9ad0cfd.jpg) here’s a pic from southwest Washington. Took my girlfriend’s little bro
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Post by: Platensek-po on December 19, 2019, 11:48:13 AM: That is an awesome pic of one happy kid! Good on ya for taking that kid out!! Is there a time of year that’s better for them?
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on December 19, 2019, 11:56:55 AM: Great pic! They are great eating !
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Post by: Sandberm on December 19, 2019, 12:11:16 PM: Quote from: ThurstonCokid on December 19, 2019, 10:20:30 AM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191219/dedb324b111090800f7c3485c9ad0cfd.jpg) here’s a pic from southwest Washington. Took my girlfriend’s little bro
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Post by: ThurstonCokid on December 19, 2019, 12:13:04 PM: Quote from: Platensek-po on December 19, 2019, 11:48:13 AM
That is an awesome pic of one happy kid! Good on ya for taking that kid out!! Is there a time of year that’s better for them?
We would always go out during summer. Sometimes In the spring. If anyone wants some Olympia area spots or Yakima pm me. I do not go often

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Title: Re: Frog Hunt
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on December 19, 2019, 05:28:36 PM: Quote from: The Marquis on December 19, 2019, 09:50:04 AM
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.
Should be 1000's in silver Lake.
Bet there's some in Mayfield.
Find Lilly pads.