I've noticed a lot of frogs/rats are extremely detailed on the top, but I don't know how that matters since the fish is always looking at them from the bottom?

Is there are difference between brands, or is there one that really outperforms the others?

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My frog I like would have to be the Booyah pad crasher.

For me, which ever one I am using...............seriously. I have tried them all, they all work, certain ones excel at certain things. Pick one, you'll be fine. Often times it's not the frog, it's the dude using it that can or can't make it work.

I like the river to sea spittin wa.... It's a popper frog and I have lots of confidence in pop-r's so I definitely gained a lot in frogs with that and now it's a color thing for me

Booyah and Spro are my favorites.

For the money I'd say Koppers field mouse. Suuuuper whippy walk as they are longer and more slender. Their regular frogs aren't far behind though. Nice detail, great action and good hookups.

Doesn't matter to me they all work

I'm kind of partial to the Ken Daubert Clone Frog myself.  Doesn't require super heavy tackle, nor a He-Man Mr. Universe jaw ripping hook set.  My setups I use are: a 7'0" MH/Fast casting rod, GEN3 Revo Inshore, 65lb. braid and 20lb flouro leader, and a 7'3" MED/Fast spinning rod, Stradic 3000FJ, 30lb braid and 15lb flouro leader.

I think most of them are pretty effective, but my favorite is the Booyah Pad Crasher, followed by Spro and then Live Target. Being that frogs are fished mostly in calm water and sit with the tail end down, the fish do see the colors on them. Also, with flatter water the surface can act like a mirror depending on conditions which will reflect the color downward. None of that really matters when fishing over thick matted vegies, but when the frog hits a hole, or the edge it does. 

I guess if the details on the top of the frog matter that much, I don't understand how you can get away with tassels instead of realistic legs like the lunker frogs have?

I'm fishin lotsa frog topwater right now in the emerging slopfest

Booyah has the better hookup % for me

but Koppers is gettin bit  more

I guess if the details on the top of the frog matter that much, I don't understand how you can get away with tassels instead of realistic legs like the lunker frogs have?

Those legs are nice and get bass to strike but only if the fish can see em.. holes or weed edges are where I use them

I cant walk the *** frogs that well cause of those legs.. and they dont cast as far as the booyah and koppers .. so they get used sparringly

I'm kind of partial to the Ken Daubert Clone Frog myself.  Doesn't require super heavy tackle, nor a He-Man Mr. Universe jaw ripping hook set.  My setups I use are: a 7'0" MH/Fast casting rod, GEN3 Revo Inshore, 65lb. braid and 20lb flouro leader, and a 7'3" MED/Fast spinning rod, Stradic 3000FJ, 30lb braid and 15lb flouro leader.

I'm beginning to really like Capt Ken's Clone Frog also..

The action of that thing is unlike all the more popular ones.

BUT, for walking in place, through a grass or pad field, over laydowns or under overhanging trees and bushes, the Scum Frog is the first on the water.

Mike

People have good opinions of the Lunker Lure frogs compared to the ones with the rubber skirt legs. But there is the occasional bad rating that says the legs are prone to tear off. So far, I like the Pad Crasher.

I've been getting a lot of hits on both of my Savage Gear hollow body Frogs, one with an open leg design for heavy cover twitching and walking and another with legs turned inward that is a reaction buzz frog that spits and bubbles like a buzzbait on a steady retrieve.