This morning I hit the local lake for some frog fishing. Well I ended up with like 4 blow up and two hooked up. So I can feel the fish on the line. Iam even pulling in the fish. I go to set the hook both times and the bait comes back at me. After looking at the bait the hook is still on in the bait. I just just skin hook all my frogs. So what did I do worng? If I did any thing wrong. By the way I was useing a sizmic 4in frog and gamakatsu 4/0 wide gap hook. Also a 6.2 curado with 12lb sufix seige and a quantum mh rod with a some what fast tip.

Thats a nice setup you've got there for froggin'.  One thing I've learned from fishing frogs is that you really HAVE to wait a couple of seconds before setting the hook.  I usually see the bass blow up on my frog, wait about 2-3 seconds... reel down until you feel the weight of the fish... then cross her eyes.   Usually after a bass takes your frog they will open their mouths momentarily as if they were "feeling it" or repositioning it in their mouths.  This is why fisherman can miss them sometimes.  You'll still miss a few, but I promise you'll land more this way.  Oh yeah don't forget to put some megastrike or jj's magic on it so the bass hang on longer.  Good luck!

also you will want to use some kind of braid .... if that suffix has any strech the bass will simply hold that frog till after you set the hook then spit it out .... with braid you can slam that hook home .... im not sayin you need 50lb for that kind of frog ,,, but id get 30lb at least ....

i agree i like braid for frogs.  with mono you just lose so many, even if you set the hook really hard....just too much stretch

x3 lighter braid 4 frogs

One thing I can add to this, buy a weedless hook for frog fishing, I know it sounds outdated but if you take the hook all the way through the bait and attach the weedgaurd, it is much easier for the bass to knock the weed gaurd off the hook then it is to set the hook through a thick plastic frog. Another suggestion to you is to take some supper glue and squirt it into the hole in the lure close to the eye of the hook. This helps the lure stay on the top of hook instead of being pulled to the bottom of the hook.

Good Luck bud!!!

I fish 5/0 and 6/0 hooks on my frogs. With braid of course.

I am using 4/0 - 5/0 hooks on 50 lbs to 65 lbs test PowerPro

for my frog fishing.

To answer the original question, it sounds like you are doing things

correctly. You may need to just wait an extra second or two, but

other than that you are on the money. You are always going to miss

a small number of fish on frogs. The key is to minimize that number.

JT Bagwell

You've discovered one of the problems of frog fishing.  You will miss some fish.  That's the way frogging is.

When a bass takes your frog and turns back down into the weeds, a lot of your hookset force can get absorbed by heavy vegetation.  Add some line stretch and a rod not strong enough and it is possible to not get a good hookset.

I switched my frogging gear to a dedicated 7'6" flipping stick and 50 lb. Power Pro.  My success has been very good with this rig.  Not perfect, but better than other rigs I have tried.

Brad

12lb suffix is a really nice line, but i don't think it's a good line for the application.  I'd switch to either a heavier mono, for the sizmic toads, or a braid, for the toads and for frogs like the Spro.

No matter how heavy the mono, your line is going to stretch, and cause hook up problems, especially if you get bites far out.

50-65lb braid depending on what you're fishing (cover/vegetation)

7'6" rod is great for frogs, tons of hook setting power, leverage over the fish, and moves a lota line when you set the hook from a distance.

I won't fish frogs on a rod under 7'3 ever again.

Last season I had the same problem, I was using a similar setup 7' MH Basspro extreme, and a Diawa Viento with 12lb Suffix Siege.  This season I switched to 50lb Suffix Braid and have seen a dramatic improvement.  One other thing I have been doing is when I rig the toad, I try and work the hood in the plastic so the hole is a little bigger.  It seems that the hook has a little less friction on the hook set but still is weedless.

I have usally use 50lb power pro. But the reel that gets used for that is still in heck of a birds nest from last summer. Its a quantm accurist and I pair it with a St. Croix mh 6'6" rod. It seems to me that sufix has far less strech then my old fav yo-zuri. So It looks like I will be getting the braid ready.