Time of year, conditions, etc 

 

Thanks!

When the bass are looking up and willing to chase, which for my body of water is about 75+ degree water, a moving tide, spatterdock pads, and hydrilla. I really like to parallel it along pad edges, or when the hydrilla forms edges where the bass are usually waiting in ambush next to open water. I have seen them bust through hydrilla, but it's usually a bite in the open water next to the cover.

Bout two months now, shallow water marshes, water temperatures about 55.

I fished them last Sunday, in the Lilly pads, and around the cypress trees. I like black and a BPS color bama frog, green back orangish belly.
I like to use them in the spring, when the frogs are active and looking for mates, but probably good anytime.

I love toad fishing.   My favorite bait is the Gambler Cane Toad.  Fished like a buzz bait, it produces big fish for me.  Unfortunately, these baits have a dark side.  I fish them in heavy cover and pads.  Bass often miss the bait which makes my fish in the boat ratio only about 50%.  I have tried all kinds of toad hooks and nothing works all the time.  Toads work year round in Florida as long as the water is clear enough.

Late spring through fall in Chara algae . They are one of the few lures that will go through it .Other than that never . I miss so many bass with it that it only gets thrown where other lures cant go.

Any time there's a topwater bite

any place and time I want to fish a buzz bait but there's too much grass making it difficult, i.e. grass wrapping the blades every cast or trying to tuck it up under low bushes.  

I usually throw them when I am fishing a hollow bodied frog and get some hits as i am moving them fast.  I do agree with others that they basically a more subtle buzzbait and can come through cover.