Does anyone have luck fishing soft frogs, like Ribbits, on the bottom? I have not found much info online. I love Ribbits and figured adding a 3/16 bullet weight and crawling on bottom would seem enticing.

I feel like there was a thread brought up about fishing baits in weird ways, and this was discussed maybe someone else will remember the exact thread but  know of a few people who put them on the back of jigs for a different presentation.

Any bait slow dragged on the bottom will occasionally catch bass.  I'm sure a frog included.  My fav is a senko type bait, or a worm texas rigged.

Real frogs that bass eat swim underwater and along the bottom, they rest on the surface. Nothing strange about presenting a Ribbit T-rigged along the bottom, it's natural.

Tom

Thanks guys, seems to be a little used, or known, technique. Ribbits sure look good swimming just under the surface. Not too far off from a Rage Bug or Craw when you think about it.

Wouldn't it take more than a 3/16th slip sinker to get and keep a ribbit on the bottom?  Like maybe 1/2oz?  I really don't know, just food for thought.

A lot of my strikes come from buzzing a toad over some grass then pausing it and letting it float down an opening in the grass. Even if the bite isn’t immediate, I’ll let it sink for a few seconds. Those legs really flutter all by em selves, and seems to drive the fish nuts. The keitech toads are basically just really fat rage craws with  tiny arms ?.

7 hours ago, Smalls said:

A lot of my strikes come from buzzing a toad over some grass then pausing it and letting it float down an opening in the grass. Even if the bite isn’t immediate, I’ll let it sink for a few seconds. Those legs really flutter all by em selves, and seems to drive the fish nuts. The keitech toads are basically just really fat rage craws with  tiny arms ?.

This is deadly before the grass takes over and you have to break out the punching setup.