Went out to one of the reservoirs on Saturday with the family. Went to the office to get the special permit, and who do I see plastered over the wall... Mitch G holding up pigs, and I was like I found his secret spot. ;-) But I digress. So it was uneventful, left for lunch, and after hit a nice pond/lake. I noticed both ends of the water Lily pads and I'm thinking frogs. Tie on a bullfrog Zoom Horney Toad, and obviously so did this other guy that was there he had a Booyah Pad Crasher set up. No sooner the frogs hit the water blow ups every where I had three blow ups but they spit the hook, I think I have to work on setting hook I think, but anyway the other guy freaking pulls in a 5lb pig while I was walking past him trying to get to another patch of pads. I had to help him remove the lure because he was shaking, and had her stuck good. He asked me to take a picture with his phone so he could get a good pic with size comparison. He was a real nice guy....anyway all I had was 2 pickeral to show for the rest of the day, but I didn't get skunked. Next time I'm bringing my heavy/fast rod to fight these pads.

What i love just love is a spro poppin frog for conditions like that. Today i smoked a 7.5lb on one.

Do you use any other frogs or things for lily pads? There are alot at some of the places I go to and looking for some types of baits to throw in those

the kvd sexy frog.............

Zoom Horney Toads, Booyah Pad Crashers, Ribbits, KVD Sexy Frog, Spro (don't know if that's how you spell it) Rage Tail Rage Toad to name a few. The Zoom, Ribbits, Rage Toads are plastics, and I think the other ones are hollow bodies. Anybody correct me if I'm wrong.

Oh, and I think Live Target has a different types. I have one of their koppers bullfrog walking frog. I'm gonna try that one next time I hit the greens.

Do you use any other frogs or things for lily pads? There are alot at some of the places I go to and looking for some types of baits to throw in those

I don't hesitate to throw buzzbaits and spinnerbaits in and around pads.  I don't really care to fish pads, but I know bass use them.  Therefore, I want to cover the water as quick as possible and try to pick off any active fish.  You'll  never see me fishing pads slow. 

Let the frogs fall from a pad in some of the open spots, and watch the water show. Also swim them on the edges of pad field you'll get some wicked blow ups.

That reminds me, gotta go to Dicks and get some hollow body frogs.

I love when teh frog bite is on, but yeah you have to have a pretty stiff rod to handle those bass and the scunk that comes out with it