11 hours ago, MassYak85 said:

Pad Crasher's and Spro's are my favorites I've used. Spro's are more durable in my experience and are heavier (cast better), pad crashers are much cheaper and despite being softer still float after taking a beating. Plus the softer body I feel is better for hookups. 

This is so very interesting. Last few years I fish frog 90% of the time summer & fall. That's many hours and hundreds of bass. This year many of those bass have been in the heftier range up to 6.5#. In my experience there is no comparison as far as durability, the pad crasher will last up to 4 or 5 times more fish than the spro. It is interesting that people find the opposite

5 hours ago, jignfule said:

This is so very interesting. Last few years I fish frog 90% of the time summer & fall. That's many hours and hundreds of bass. This year many of those bass have been in the heftier range up to 6.5#. In my experience there is no comparison as far as durability, the pad crasher will last up to 4 or 5 times more fish than the spro. It is interesting that people find the opposite

The rubber they use just feels tougher to me, and doesn't compress as easily I feel. It doesn't seem to tear as easily. Now that being said, I have had my one single pad crasher for years, and it still works great. It has tears, paint is half scraped off, looks like hell. I've probably caught more fish on the spro at this point though since I only recently took frogging more seriously. So I guess each is more durable in it's own way if that makes sense. The spro seems to be harder to damage, but the pad crasher seems to be able to take more damage. 

Frog fishing is the next technique that I want to focus on... I don't fish much topwater at all, and frogs are a major forage in a couple of the ponds I regularly fish.  Should be fun.

I've been scared away thus far by the rather steep price of the hollow-body frogs I've seen.  I just learned about the Stanley Ribbit and Top Frog from this thread.  I know the ribbit is buzz frog, but it appears to be buoyant where other buzz frogs I've fished (Horny Toads) seem to sink.  Is that true?  And can anyone give me a better idea about the concept of the Top Frog?  It looks like a cross between a soft-plastic buzz frog and the hollow-body concept.

Everything I've found is a little vague on the differences.

 

(hope this isn't a threadjack)