Seems like everyone recommends trimming the legs on your frog to avoid short strikes, as well as help the frog walk better. So why do so many bait companies continue to make frogs with such long legs? Is there some advantage that no one is talking about there?

Actual frog legs are fairly long, so I'd guess just trying to make it look more like the real thing. 

Don't know, but someone should make a frog with bent out hooks.

Cutting them is easy.  Making them longer is less easy.

They are packed by weight, not volume, like potato chips...

Maybe the bodies are just too short.

A-Jay

I’m glad they do…simple and easy to customize.  Many will cut the legs on one side slightly shorter to help it walk better.

59 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

Cutting them is easy.  Making them longer is less easy.

i think this is the true answer.  they are allowing us options.  cut it or dont cut it however you want.  if a bass bites, it's because of your perfect well thougth out trimming.  if the bait sucks, mmmm..maybe i cut them too short?  or not enough.   i trim them so i dont slam the legs in the lid.    my frog game is not strong. 

Easy to trim. Not so easy to add length to the legs. 

I used to trim them.  I don't anymore.  It didn't make any difference.  I think we like to trick ourselves into thinking we've influenced something.

1 minute ago, J Francho said:

I used to trim them.  I don't anymore.  It didn't make any difference.  I think we like to trick ourselves into thinking we've influenced something.

But, if they're on a short right leg pattern, you're skunked.

5 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

But, if they're on a short right leg pattern, you're skunked.

Dude I'm stuck on a kayak anyway. Lol. 

1 hour ago, Choporoz said:

Cutting them is easy.  Making them longer is less easy.

 

Its kind of like getting a haircut.  You can always take a little more off the top, but you can't put any back on.

1 hour ago, Cdn Angler said:

Don't know, but someone should make a frog with bent out hooks.

You mean like this?

 

 

Snag proof Bobby's Perfect Frog

2 minutes ago, Big Rick said:

You mean like this?

 

 

Snag proof Bobby's Perfect Frog

 

He means the opposite of that. 

1 hour ago, Big Rick said:

You mean like this?

 

 

Snag proof Bobby's Perfect Frog

 

If I'm understanding him correctly, he means someone should just produce frogs like this.... Since so many people bend the hooks out anyway. 

I wouldn't buy one if the hooks were sticking out like that. 

2 hours ago, Choporoz said:

But, if they're on a short right leg pattern, you're skunked.

My right or the fish's right?...

34 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I wouldn't buy one if the hooks were sticking out like that. 

Talk about snag city...

 

If someone wants them bent out - they can do that  themselves....nice, tucked close hooks are best for frogs.

10 hours ago, Cdn Angler said:

Don't know, but someone should make a frog with bent out hooks.

 

Scissors and pliers should take care of all the frog problems. ?

14 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Talk about snag city...

 

If someone wants them bent out - they can do that  themselves....nice, tucked close hooks are best for frogs.

Or just use a softer bodied frog like a Scum Frog and leave it alone
 

 

 

 

Mike

I found that cutting off some of the legs helped. That said I catch way more fish on horny toads than other frogs. 

 

Allen 

On 7/28/2022 at 1:36 PM, Choporoz said:

Cutting them is easy.  Making them longer is less easy.

Exactly what I was going to say!!!