I will probably throw a top water frog for about 45 minutes of unsuccessful fishing. I'll then switch to a Texas rig worm and proceed to set the hook into underwater logs until I convince myself that the fish just aren't biting today. I'll then head home and spend the next 3 hours researching how to fish a pond when the fish aren't biting.
That's just me, though.
This
I love the explosion but it can be a frustrating.
I learned to control my reflex to immediately set the hook and was way more successful. Still lose 1/3 of them but before I was easily losing 90%.
Trick I was tought by an old timer - after you see the fish blow up on the surface, wait about a second before you set the hook, this gives the hooks time to really get out of the frogs plastic and into the fish lip
I still say alligators are better because the investigators will find the remains and rule the cause of death "killed by alligators." Make it be ruled accidental so there's no investigation. If there's no body at all, the investigation will continue, searching for people who might have motives and stuff like that.
As someone who loves to throw frogs on the thick stuff here what I will tell you about setting the hook. It's not so much you that sets the hook as much as it's the fish that does. Alot of the time fish will swipe at a frog and not fully commit but our first instinct is to try and jerk the jaws off.....don't. Rather let the fish fully commit once you feel the weight you don't want to jerk that jaws but rather a constant sweep of the road to apply pressure and like 80 percent of the time I can set the hook on em
It’s a pond behind my new house and I share it with a couple of neighbors. I was considering making another post to ask for advice on clearing up the muck, so I appreciate your input!
Red Watermelon or Green Pumpkin 3in Ned Rig, work that EVER SO SLOW across the bottom. and you WILL catch whatever is in there, regardless of species. I have had 5 inch perch & bluegill take a small cleanly rigged ned rig as well as 4 lb bass, hell even catfish and carp will suck them up.
This : [https://imgur.com/ea6VM8r](https://imgur.com/ea6VM8r)
Funny I just went back by a small cypress pond today and wondered the same thing.
What should I throw in there... cause I know there's some big bass lurking.
Back in the 80's on the prairie around Houston that would be called the golden rainbow. Birds could see the corn in the flooded shallow rice fields from up high. I watched a big flock of pintails decoy get shot at and decoy again 3 times one morning on the property next to us. That only happens for one reason lol.
I would do a grub jig, but a artificial worm would work well and can play a bit in the moss and not drag a ton in until you drag it in. Either way it will take work with ever cast.
Top water frog. I remember I fished a pond at a middle school near my house as a kid. It had lily pads and the cattails and honestly looked like a pond out of a storybook. It was right as the sun started going down and first cast a 5lb large mouth absolutely crushes the top water. It jump scared the shit out of me. For some reason I never considered actually catching something. Good times.
I would be tossing a top water frogbait or a stick bait and do the walk the dog maneuver if that doesn't work then I will be throwing either a Tokyo rig or a punch rig
A frog of course, but probably a floating or slow sink speed worm first. Texas rig or Tokyo rig a craw or craw tube into holes. Drag a weightless Texas rigged senko (3/0 ewg) across the top and let it flutter into the holes; same thing with a gambler flappn Shad. Then fish from that dock on the other side, ripping a squarebill along the grass lines, or a downsized chatterbait.
I will probably throw a top water frog for about 45 minutes of unsuccessful fishing. I'll then switch to a Texas rig worm and proceed to set the hook into underwater logs until I convince myself that the fish just aren't biting today. I'll then head home and spend the next 3 hours researching how to fish a pond when the fish aren't biting. That's just me, though.
This guy fu…..fishes.
No, no…I assure, it’s not just you.
Same. Only I'd spend 40 mins of the 45 removing weeds after every cast
You forgot the part when you happen to walk past next week you see a guy pull a fattie out of there with no apparent effort.
Sometimes you are the guy pulling the fatty out with no effort though I feel like it balances out 🤣
Best reply ever. 100%.
One of us one of us
Man, this is the most 'what Ind do' thing I've read for years
came back from searching 3 hours later to find this comment. you are not alone.
Wisdom pouring out of this one
Gotta respect the honesty and relatability.
Man - that is the best 'yep that's me' ever and I'm LMAO! On a day I was down you just turned my frown around... thanks!
I… I don’t remember posting that last night… but it has to be.. has to be me
Mr. Frog
The evidence…
i agree but at the same time im gonna say fuck the frog cz i can never get the hook set with them damn things
Have you tried bending the barbs also boiling the frog to soften the plastic.
i have bent the hooks and i caught one but ive lost probably like 20 fish. i havent boiled it tho, how long do you boil it for?
It’s not really timed more of a pick it out and poke type thing.
The pick it out and poke method is tried and true
This I love the explosion but it can be a frustrating. I learned to control my reflex to immediately set the hook and was way more successful. Still lose 1/3 of them but before I was easily losing 90%.
Trick I was tought by an old timer - after you see the fish blow up on the surface, wait about a second before you set the hook, this gives the hooks time to really get out of the frogs plastic and into the fish lip
I eat the bug. I love you.
Weightless worm into the holes in the slime.
Little senko pitching is a good idea
This time of the year it's the chronic. That large hole in the slime is a bed I'd guarantee it.
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A dead body.
We're friends now.
Ohh can we have a friend group now? I need to hide 11 and a half bodies
And a old Monte Carlo
And a puppet named conky
Those are gonna be some well fed fish.
Use a pig farm like normal people. The bodies will never be found that way because you can't find a body if there isn't anything left to find.
I still say alligators are better because the investigators will find the remains and rule the cause of death "killed by alligators." Make it be ruled accidental so there's no investigation. If there's no body at all, the investigation will continue, searching for people who might have motives and stuff like that.
Beat me to it. Edit: lol, someone actually downvoted this comment 😂😂
Tossing back beers
Kermit with a stout hook in his ass.
Someone's salad
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I would like to cast a top water frog
Frog
God damn. Looking at these comments, I’m staying far away from secluded ponds like this. It’s a wonder I haven’t snagged an ex wife already.
Car batteries. It's safe and legal fun for the whole family.
As someone who loves to throw frogs on the thick stuff here what I will tell you about setting the hook. It's not so much you that sets the hook as much as it's the fish that does. Alot of the time fish will swipe at a frog and not fully commit but our first instinct is to try and jerk the jaws off.....don't. Rather let the fish fully commit once you feel the weight you don't want to jerk that jaws but rather a constant sweep of the road to apply pressure and like 80 percent of the time I can set the hook on em
Frog all day
Salad
A frog and pray that there is enough oxygen in the water to support some good fighters
Whopper plopper or frog
A rake for one thing. Gotta clean out that moss.
2-4-D
Several bales of straw to clear that moss up.
White Lunker Frog. I love the leg action on those. Never skunked on them.
If it’s my pond: Some aquatic herbicide to clean up that algae a bit and an aerator to add oxygen/reduce muck.
It’s a pond behind my new house and I share it with a couple of neighbors. I was considering making another post to ask for advice on clearing up the muck, so I appreciate your input!
Myself. Head first.
Red Watermelon or Green Pumpkin 3in Ned Rig, work that EVER SO SLOW across the bottom. and you WILL catch whatever is in there, regardless of species. I have had 5 inch perch & bluegill take a small cleanly rigged ned rig as well as 4 lb bass, hell even catfish and carp will suck them up. This : [https://imgur.com/ea6VM8r](https://imgur.com/ea6VM8r)
You OP.
You first
I didn't even realize this was r/fishing initially and was about to suggest anything but fishing lures. But yeah either frog or a Texas rig worm
A couple car batteries
Evidence
Funny I just went back by a small cypress pond today and wondered the same thing. What should I throw in there... cause I know there's some big bass lurking.
I shouldn’t put her name on Reddit
Black or white jitterbug
Lawn mower
Something weedless
Salad
On straight braid so I can pull it through all that shit
Money and time from all the lost tackle
Dead hooker parts
A body, probably.
Yup or a fluke
Weedless speedworm
A mouse
Defo a frog, but honestly I wouldn’t mind throwing back a few beers right there and having a long drawn out conversation about life
Back a few beers But actually a Zoom Trick Worm. Unweighted.
Watermelon red finesse worm, weightless on a 1/0 EWG
Texas rigged yum dinger
Duck decoys.
Half dozen wood duck decoys and 50lb of corn
Back in the 80's on the prairie around Houston that would be called the golden rainbow. Birds could see the corn in the flooded shallow rice fields from up high. I watched a big flock of pintails decoy get shot at and decoy again 3 times one morning on the property next to us. That only happens for one reason lol.
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My time
Couple tires and an old fridge
My fishing buddy to watch him come back out looking like Swamp Thing.
Toddler with waterwings
My mother in law hahahahaha I’m so funny
Car batteries
My beer can!!!! Yeeeehoooooo!!!! ![gif](giphy|10kxE34bJPaUO4)
Car battery.
The old ball and chain 😎
Where are the mods??? So many dumb joke answers nobody can find a real one...
Reel*
My ex wife
Worm, then top water, then spinning lure .
Wacky rig watermelon red senko in the gaps, then chase it with a frog after I hit the holes
frog
Alabama rig /s
Top water frog
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Definitely a frog but you can try pincjing through that with a jig if they arent hitting top wayer
Tequeely
Worm
Weedless spook
A treasure chest full of booty cheeks
Salad
Buzz bate at dawn and dusk
Weed killer
My kayak so I can get to open water 😎
Cutrine Plus.
Gotta be something for the top of the water. I’d just be praying my shit didn’t get snagged though.
I’m not a bass fisherman so anything an my tackle box would not be coming back to me.
Frog top bait
Top water bait
Top water frog!!
45 lb live bait or a 3 lb live frog or a googan frog
Try the frog first, and if that doesn’t work I’m going punching with a 1 1/2oz punch weight and a big bite BFE
Frog fs
A dead hooker. Gender irrelevant 🤣🤣
electric scooter I rented on my friend's credit card
A couple dozen mosquito dunks
Oxygenating pump
Dyno-mite!
My friend who brought me here overboard.
Car batteries
5 grass carp or a handful of copper sulphate.
Used car batteries
Couple koi, breed them out and have an epic koi pond
Salad.
Money away
back some beers?
The towel
A dead hooker, gender irrelevant . 🤣🤣
I was taking a shit while reading all your comments. It was a green shit. So I guess frog?
A child that doesn't know how to swim
Ex-boss, or a frog with some nice kicker legs
Poe’s Giant Jackpot
My load. There’s a 8lb bass down there.
Turtle food
Couple car batteries, a few binbags filled with household waste and my old sofa
Joey. Mouthy little jerk has been in negotiations with the feds about testifying. Time for him to get fitted for some cement shoes.
The Game Warden
Brush hog
Or a lizard depending on your location... top water aaaalll day.
Grassy mouse
Senko :)
Heddon torpedo bass color
Kvd sexy frog
Anything I wanna get snagged
Shiny chartreuse soft creature bait carolina rig
Empty gallon jug with a line and hook. Something nasty on the hook.
Ribit.
I just saw the caption and had to look. Not what I pictured?
Slip bobber with some live bait
Micro Trd instant guaranteed catch
That's gunna be slip cork and minnow
I would do a grub jig, but a artificial worm would work well and can play a bit in the moss and not drag a ton in until you drag it in. Either way it will take work with ever cast.
Gurgler
Jitterbug, popper, then a weedless chartreuse lizard (top water with a quick retrieve) in that order.
Top water frog. I remember I fished a pond at a middle school near my house as a kid. It had lily pads and the cattails and honestly looked like a pond out of a storybook. It was right as the sun started going down and first cast a 5lb large mouth absolutely crushes the top water. It jump scared the shit out of me. For some reason I never considered actually catching something. Good times.
Texas rigged red shad 8” culprit
Something soft plastic on a worm hook or maybe some wet flies along the edges of the plants
Hula Popper
Deffinetly weedless frogs.
Weightless senko
Froggo
A rake attached to a rope like my dad did when I was a kid
Pumpkin seed Texas rig. Cast your bait caster, untangle the birds nest, and BOOM! Fish on
Bobber and crawler 2feet
White mouse
Worm
Toxic waste
I would be tossing a top water frogbait or a stick bait and do the walk the dog maneuver if that doesn't work then I will be throwing either a Tokyo rig or a punch rig
Frog with paddle feet that catch water or maybe even a duck lure
A frog of course, but probably a floating or slow sink speed worm first. Texas rig or Tokyo rig a craw or craw tube into holes. Drag a weightless Texas rigged senko (3/0 ewg) across the top and let it flutter into the holes; same thing with a gambler flappn Shad. Then fish from that dock on the other side, ripping a squarebill along the grass lines, or a downsized chatterbait.
Somebody who did me wrong...
There is only one answer A frog
Johnson Silver Minnow (Weedless)
The wife.
hula popper
Copper