Nobody used cane pole and treble hook with piece of red rag and dibble them up during the day? They can't seem to ignore it. Have caught buckets full on the golf course holes.
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I used to make frog gigs out of a piece of cattle panel. Just cut a + out of the panel. Clap it in a vise with the horizontal portion against the bottom of the vise. Then bend them up until parallel with the center prong. Sharpen em up and you are good to go. Much better than those dinky factory made pronged crap. The prongs are so fat that the compression of tissue will hold them on. Sharpen them with a long taper and the floaters are no problem at all. Hammer a wood plug into the end of a piece of conduit and then drill a hole to accept the cattle panel rod.
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Froggin' in Northern California
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.
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Originally posted by Part-Timer View PostYou can also use a fishing pole and a topwater bait, like a hula popper or jitterbug. The ones I used to catch in tanks couldn't resist the subtle twitches out in front of them and would come after them every time. Good times!
Originally posted by HCON3 View PostNobody used cane pole and treble hook with piece of red rag and dibble them up during the day? They can't seem to ignore it. Have caught buckets full on the golf course holes.
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Originally posted by FISHUNTER View PostI am assuming you are speaking of the below place? its what came up when I googled Dam B. Have you been there personally and gigged or just know it would be a good spot? Thanks for your help
The Angelina Neches/Dam B WMA is located in Jasper and Tyler Counties in the fork of the Angelina River, Neches River and the B.A. Steinhagen Reservoir.
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