Frog Gigging

[tgus59]

Anyone do this? I love eating frog legs, and want to try. I have a canoe, kayak, lights etc but I don't know where to start. What type of habitat should I look for? Rivers, creeks, farm ponds, lakes? Any tips are appreciated!

 

[wytx]

Used to gig frogs in East Texas. Mainly small lakes. Make sure you don't have any special regs about the type of gig you can use. I prefer a grabber type not a pitchfork type. You can also catch them on a top water lure with a fishing pole.
Great eating, even the big ones, just don't let them hop around and get all pumped up in the legs right before you clean them.

 

[Btaylor]

Anyone do this? I love eating frog legs, and want to try. I have a canoe, kayak, lights etc but I don't know where to start. What type of habitat should I look for? Rivers, creeks, farm ponds, lakes? Any tips are appreciated!

All of those are likely spots to find frogs. I have gigged 'em , grabbed 'em, and shot 'em with a light weight recurve, all fun methods. Grabbin might be tad less sporty up there though cause ya'll prolly dont have many cottonmouths.

 

[Cng]

I’ve had the most success with farm ponds. Used to gig them when I was young, but my dad got sick of us being too loud and scaring them off, so he just started shooting them in the head with a 22. That’s how I’ve done it ever since. It’s legal here and works a lot better as long as you are shooting into a muddy pond bank.

 

[tgus59]

I’ve had the most success with farm ponds. Used to gig them when I was young, but my dad got sick of us being too loud and scaring them off, so he just started shooting them in the head with a 22. That’s how I’ve done it ever since. It’s legal here and works a lot better as long as you are shooting into a muddy pond bank.

That sounds super fun! I'll have to check if that's legal in Iowa.

All of those are likely spots to find frogs. I have gigged 'em , grabbed 'em, and shot 'em with a light weight recurve, all fun methods. Grabbin might be tad less sporty up there though cause ya'll prolly dont have many cottonmouths.

We don't, and if we did, I wouldn't go.

 

[Antarctica]

Did it a bit with my college girlfriend's dad 25 years ago. Fun stuff - banging around in a boat in the middle of the night with a lot of beer.

Boat, gig, car battery(ies), and a big ass light. Find the eye's and gig 'em. Try not to fall out of the boat - it happens.

 

[ShortMountain91]

I used to do it every summer. Been a few years but been meaning to get back into it. I always went to farm ponds and small rivers. Ponds were always better. Your looking for their eyes from afar. Then sneak up and gig em. I would always tell newbies to reach down to the end of the gig with it still stuffed in the mud because they have a tendency to work their way off the gig while you're pulling them up.

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[granite7]

I would always tell newbies to reach down to the end of the gig with it still stuffed in the mud because they have a tendency to work their way off the gig while you're pulling them up.

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Sound advice right there!

I used to go all summer as a kid. We usually were in quarries or rivers. The frogs seem to move closer to shore the later it gets at night. Early in the night you might find them still a few feet from the bank, floating out in the weeds.




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[Mygoaliselk]

Do it at night in a small pond to start. Helps with learning to aim

 

[LostArra]

We had pretty good luck with a small perch popper on a long fly rod flipping over weeds on the bank of ponds. Most of the time we couldn't see the frog until he hit the popper.

Kind of like this

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[bowtech840]

We used to catch them as kids with a plain lead head and crappie tube jig out of farm ponds. Cast the jig out and pull it up on the top of the moss and just jig it. Every frog within 50’ will race to it.


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[Rob5589]

Haven't done it in many years but used to a bunch. We used pronged gigs on a long pole or cast crappie jigs in front of them. Great times!

 

[BAKPAKR]

I used my recurve with a bowfishing reel one summer during the daylight hours. It worked very well. Having the legs jump around in the frying pan sort of freaked out my friend.

 

[weekender7]

I used to love to go, mostly ponds but some river too. Gigged most, shot some with .22 hp's, even killed one with a slingshot shooting BB's. I love to eat them legs.

 

[oldgoat]

We had pretty good luck with a small perch popper on a long fly rod flipping over weeds on the bank of ponds. Most of the time we couldn't see the frog until he hit the popper.

Kind of like this

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Did it wrong when I was a kid I guess, we snuck up and dangled the popper in front of his face, worked though!

 

[LostArra]

Did it wrong when I was a kid I guess, we snuck up and dangled the popper in front of his face, worked though!

I don't think there is a wrong way to catch frogs as a kid or adult!