I went out for a few hours this evening and was throwing toads over grass. In maybe 5 or 6 occassions, I got huge blowups a foot or more behind my frog. I got a few weak hits on the frog itself. But the best action was in the wake behind the frog.

All I can figure is that the bass were blowing up on something that was following or stirred up by the frog. Anyone ever seen this before?

I've always thought when that happened it was the bass just plain missing my frog. Good question though.

I thought that, too, but the distance between the frog and blowup seems too great.  The bass would just have to be myopic to be missing by that distance.  But maybe they are.  

SLOW DOWN!

What is happening is that the bass are using noise and movenment to track the suspecting frog and in your situation they are keying in on it and attacking the last know position it sensed it at if you get what im saying cast it out let it sit for even a few minutes just shake it in place, if nothing move it a foot and repeat.

SLOW DOWN!

What is happening is that the bass are using noise and movenment to track the suspecting frog and in your situation they are keying in on it and attacking the last know position it sensed it at if you get what im saying cast it out let it sit for even a few minutes just shake it in place, if nothing move it a foot and repeat.

Yeah, exactly. Especially if it was at night in dark water, I feel like a fast retrieve can make a bass' targeting get screwed up.

I've had times when nothing will help the bass are simply off the mark.  Even when switching to a hollow belly and working it slow as molasses in January and have them still missing the mark.  Yes colors were changed as well, the fact is they are just off the mark sometimes, some days are just like that.  Just yesterday I had a bass smack the hell out of his head on the bottom of the lilly pad 3" from my frog.

I once threw a weightless senko onto a pad of weeds matted on the water and it made a loud SMACK sound.  I twitched it on top a few seconds later, and then BAM, a huge bass slammed the spot where the worm originally smacked.  So I tossed it back to the same spot with the same smacking sound and didn't move it.  Same bass hit it again and got hooked.  So fun.

my take on this is that the bass go up through hole in the slop and alot of times miss it , that why we sometimes get that bass on a re-cast to that same spot/hole . i have always equated that to standard frog fishing . i have recently been letting the frog sink how it wants while reeling it super slow ( i don't use hollow bodied/floating frogs any more ) and pausing it alot , allowing it to sink . if i miss the bass or it misses me , i re-cast to the same spot and usaully catch him .  

IMO you're reeling to fast which I have a tendency to do myself.  I've caught more bass ( regardless of lure ) on slower presentations.  Twitch and pause, letting a top lure rest a few seconds then twitching a few feet and pause again.  I don't like overworking a lure.

Micro, this is opposite of what everyone is saying, and sounds crazy, but trying speeding it up a bit.  I know it sounds crazy, but just give it a try and post your results back on this thread  

Micro, I think the bass were spastic.

Or maybe A-D-D.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I had the same problem with the Rage Shad.Lots of blow ups behind the bait.I slow my retrieve down and BOOM = fish on.

Micro, this is opposite of what everyone is saying, and sounds crazy, but trying speeding it up a bit. I know it sounds crazy, but just give it a try and post your results back on this thread

This maybe the trick.  I've tried slowing down and don't know how much slower I can go.  

I've seen this phenomenon before, but this is the first year I've experienced it so much.  

I went out for a few hours this evening and was throwing toads over grass. In maybe 5 or 6 occassions, I got huge blowups a foot or more behind my frog. I got a few weak hits on the frog itself. But the best action was in the wake behind the frog.

All I can figure is that the bass were blowing up on something that was following or stirred up by the frog. Anyone ever seen this before?

Wow! Great thought! I never considered that -that they might be after the 'gills that are attracted to the frog. Of course!!

Those blow-ups used to be maddening, until I finally had to concede that on some days, I wasn't going to be hooking those bass on a topwater. Now I have something to go on. Thanks Micro!

OK...this is now a punching game.

Earlier this year, I was fishing a soft jekbait from the bank and pulling it along close to the shore line and I saw a wake come from a liitle further off shore and missed the bait. He ran at it so fast that half the bass came out of the water and landed on shore. It flopped one time and was gone. It almost landed itself!

I know this doesn't really apply to the question but I thought I would share :-)

RoD