Bullfrog Gigging

[firecapt186]

She'll do what takes to get one too

[firecapt186]

Even get up in tree tops

[acearrow]

love casting a worm at them rigged weedless. Those suckers sure can fight better than you would give them credit.
If you have any grass/turf farms in the area, they make for a good place to look for frogs.

[firecapt186]

Crawfish ponds in East Texas are excellent places also.

[justincorbell]

This one came back from the dead!

[firecapt186]

This one came back from the dead!

Wow, didn't pay attention to the post dates, probably due to the small screen on my phone. I live in the Baton Rouge, La. area, frog season opens June 1 here and if anyone would like to go, you're welcome to come along. For the most part, everything is done from my boat, a custom built flat with a 37 hp Gator Tail surface drive motor. Can't guarantee we'll catch hundreds, but we'll 30-50 for sure and you'll see the La. swamps at night and the night life that it has to offer. And tons of alligators.

[firecapt186]

All of my pictures were of trip right at the close of last season, so most had been picked over pretty good.

[bearintex]

anyone up for a TBH frog hunting trip???????????

Sign me up!!!! I'd pay decent money for regular access to someplace that held a bunch. We had an old crawfish farm we could frog, but it got sold and parceled up. 50 was a slow night in there.

[BetramHunter]

Check the the bayous. The best time to go is after they mow them.
I still have my old gigs in the garage from my gigging days.

[BetramHunter]

Check the the bayous. The best time to go is after they mow them.
I still have my old gigs in the garage from my gigging days.

Just re-read you post and noticed you don't want to hit the bayous.

[helim83]

lean machine, PM heading your way

[CRM_95]

Wow, didn't pay attention to the post dates, probably due to the small screen on my phone. I live in the Baton Rouge, La. area, frog season opens June 1 here and if anyone would like to go, you're welcome to come along. For the most part, everything is done from my boat, a custom built flat with a 37 hp Gator Tail surface drive motor. Can't guarantee we'll catch hundreds, but we'll 30-50 for sure and you'll see the La. swamps at night and the night life that it has to offer. And tons of alligators.

Is the guy on the left in that pic a Houston Firefighter? I'm pretty sure I know him.

[firecapt186]

Is the guy on the left in that pic a Houston Firefighter? I'm pretty sure I know him.

No, that's my son. He's a police officer for Baton Rouge, but assigned to DEA

[CRM_95]

No, that's my son. He's a police officer for Baton Rouge, but assigned to DEA

Ok just wondering. I have a friend I've known all my life that works for the Houston Fire Dept and they could pass for twins lol!!

[Winman]

Found this site when I googled “frog Gigging”.

I am from northern California, which is about as alike to Los Angeles as Miami is to Billings, Montana. We are huntin, fishin, country folk up here. We hunt ducks, geese, quail, turkeys, deer, elk, cottontail, etc., catch crawdads and frog gig. At least some of us do. Frog gigging is a dying art!

My nephew lives up on the Oregon border in alfalfa country and it is full of ditches and loaded with frogs. Our one night record is 108 huge frogs and the most ****** off wives ever. Sorry! We drank a little whisky to keep warm for 12 hours straight and cooked a snack of about 30 frog legs for breakfast. It looked like a mix between a lard rendering plant and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre!

I have a couple of tips for the gigger. One is to drive into the area of the ditches and turn the pickup off and sit and listen. Especially in the early summer when they are courting some foxy babe frog. You can here them a mile away and they guide you to them with their love song. The second huge tip is to use a “HTFB” (High Tech Frog Bucket). This is one of those fish baskets with the spring loaded tops. There is nothing better to hold the frogs. Also, sharpen your gig every time so when you jab them when they are floating and not against something, so the gig penetrates easily.

I love frog gigging. Matter of fact, I think I generally have an issue with wanting to stab things. My favorite stabbing hobby is spear fishing. I am 58 years old and I have had that hobby for 40 years. It is the best of two worlds – hunting and fishing. I dive mostly on the north coast of California and it ain’t for sissys! The water is rough and sometimes you can barely see your hand in front of your face. You can’t spear fish when its that murky but you can still dive for abalone. It is weird diving 20 or 30 feet when you can only see gray until the bottom jumps into focus. You aren’t allowed to use scuba tanks for abalone and must hold your breath. We usually take a spear gun and spear fish at the same time if we have 10 or more feet of visibility. It is a fun sport once you get some experience under your belt and get comfortable with your equipment. I wrote an article on it that is for the beginners and folks that want to see what it is like. It is about 3,500 words so I ain’t going to re-write it here but if you want to read it, it is in the blogs at Did I mention the great white shark issue? They are there and they are 20 feet and can turn you into a **** pretty readily! The water is so murky, you wouldn’t even see them coming. Their main food source once they are grown is seals and a person in a black wet suit, similar in shape and size, is often mistaken for one. I shouldn’t say often because it is highly more likely that you will get killed in a car wreck on the way to the ocean to dive or get struck by lightening than to get bit by a shark and even then, most people survive. I have a defense for them. If I see one, I turn the water brown all around me!

Anyway, I don’t know why I was thinking frogging at this time of year. Up there where we usually frog will be about 10 degrees this weekend. I might go duck hunting, but that is a pain in the arse when you have to wade in shin deep mud, in waist deep water and break 1 inch ice to go get your ducks! I am getting too old for that crap! Turkey and pheasant season opened so maybe I will road hunt those instead.

I thought road hunting was illegal!!!!!!