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I"ve been using them with 2 weights I think - whatever the pkged ones had on them. It took a bit of practice to get a good hook set. They are deadly on lake Okeechobee but I let them pull the rod a bit then set the hook and got most of them - I had better hookups with skinny dipper but more big fish strikes with the sebile - I think it takes practice but they are pretty expensive to learn on. I had some spectacular misses with this bait but also some hook-ups

yesterday we had heat index of 110 the water in the glades was in the high 80's - caught 1-2#ers on worms fished 8' deep but the big ones 5# and over were all on frogs from 11 am til 2pm, when we quit before we suffered heat stroke. The fish were in 1' to 3' deep water in pad beds. The strikes on the frog were spectacular and the fish were very frisky.

furbit - furbit -

Capt. Bill Roberts had a party out on alligator alley sat. and they caught one over 10 that was almost dripping eggs

I'm a native of wva - live and guide in Florida now but am moving back to the hills this summer. Bass fishing can be tough there but very interesting. Deep super clear smallmouth lakes (summersville) shallow brushy lake (burnsville)- all around lakes - Sutton, Stonewall Jackson - great river smallies - New, Elk (in places),Greenbrier - big tough rivers - Ohio, Mon., Kanawha - the place can challenge you with diverse systems and techniques - a great training ground. Many times you will get a musky or trophy walleye while bass fishing. I love fishing there except some winters are too cold (like this one) -

We catch bass on frogs 12 mo.s a year in the everglades- not after cold fronts but on the days leading up to them - wind is helpful

use 10 or 15# braid with a 36" mono leader and you'll cast farther than you can believe

pretty good bite going on at sawgrass right now which is just across the highway from holpk - we didn't score on lunkers but decent bass and lots of them

Fished holiday park (everglades) thurs. Okeechobee fri, sat., and sunday - lots of dead peacocks in holiday - the big O was littered with dead oscars and tilapia - should give the spawned bass fry a better shot at survival this year - good and bad things come from the cold

I go fishing

leverage and more leverages, never use a trailer hook - shortarm the old bass buster scorpion which I'm running out of

The little High Roller - small wood bait - big fish

my father with a cane pole and minners on cedar creek in wva. yrs later the late great Chuck Woods actually taught me how to really bass fish. Every tournament I've ever won I owe to these two very different men. I thank them every time I'm on the water-still having so much fun after 60 years of this craziness.

I found good fishing on the alley from the toll booth west - there were beds but the fish I caught were in deep water adjacent to the nests - I was fishing a t-rigged 9" worm - the hits came when the worm dropped off the edge of shallow down to 11'- nothing big but lots of 11/2 lbers . Three days later I caught some nice fish, a couple of 5's on frogs but it took a lot of casts. With this cold front I expect nada from the frog for a few days.

there were lots of beds on the alley and some other guides saw them in the miami canal - I'm not catching them on the beds but in the area - thursday had a good time 11 in two/three hours with a couple in the 5lb class all on frogs all in vicinity of beds - one of the old timers says this is the time for the really big ones, that they spawn first in the glades. Of course really big bass are but a dream to me but I try.

My two biggest smallies 5lbs+ were both caught on phillips crippled killers (prop bait) one in the Elk r. in WVa the other on the mulberry in Ark. - both fish were positioned upstream of a submerged boulder at the head of large riffles. Not huge fish but big for where they were caught.

If you're looking for numbers - lots of bass and peacocks it's hard to beat the everglades - saw a boat do a 110 peacocks and over 30 largemouth in a half day at holiday park last week nothing big

saw lots of beds yesterday, sunday, studs were easy to catch on worms - saw nothing over 2lbs. Don't know if spawn is being consummated yet.

I've been chasing bass for 60 yrs. I throw a lot of topwaters - mostly frogs these days - here in the everglades they can make for a memorable day - either for big bass busting the surface or for hours of frustration - but you have to believe - this is a cool site and I've already learned some good stuff here. It's all fun

good info - really a weak spot with me - thanks to those that know

Here in so. fla. we punch with heavy tungsten wgts. and use spooks on the edge but my favorite is to fish a frog along ragged edges or over mats that have some openings - we vary the speed of retrieve to find a pattern for the day, somedays it is walking them other days dead sticking is the ticket - when fishing the edges we are mostly on the mats but the strikes usually come in the notches or on points of weeds. Very long casts are more productive than short ones as a rule with the frog - less boat noise.

Many years ago the guy that taught me bass fishing said 10 am- 2pm is the time the big ones go for lunch - he usually threw a big topwater and I still do, of course I strike out sometimes but not always.

We've had better hookups since we went to Daiwas light and tough frog rod - 50# braid -I have my folks keep crankin' and don't give em a break.

We carry a huge selection of frogs on our boat (I'm embarrassed to say how many)- it is our primary big bass bait (5-8LBS). They all have a place for me but day in and day out the pathetically fragile furbit does the job - just takes a lot of super glue and tiny tie wraps. The snag proof- the swamp donkey - the rts - spro on and on - they all catch fish but some just fit an individuals fishing style better than others, I end up using glue and wraps on all of them eventually

I suffer from a serious frog addiction - many days that's all I use. I've thrown them exclusively all day in tournaments - it has cost me money but last year won one in the last fifteen minutes - big fish baits like frogs and swim baits require discipline or madness to throw them for 8 or nine hrs - but man are the strikes awesome. and you do get to learn a lure that way.