>>677901>What techniques do you guys normally do for frogs and other topwater stuff?The fish usually dictate it, and to an extent my tackle (which is why I'm building the frog setup). There are days where one can do no wrong when it comes to topwater. I love those days. Early morning or late evening, slight fog on the water, fish breaking everywhere. Seems like it doesn't matter where you cast, they'll smash a popper or a frog.
Other days they make you work hard for a strike and those are often the ones I wish I had a stronger setup. Late last summer there were some huge snakehead beneath thick hydrilla mats. Unlike bass where I could usually coax them out by casting poppers or frogs to the outskirts of the grass (some place safe for lighter mono) the snakehead would not come out. But I knew they were there because any time I pulled a frog over the little windows in the thick mats of grass they'd smack the frog two or three feet into the air (probably not trying to eat it, just defend their young). Which was probably lucky for me because there'd have been no way for me to pull them out of the stuff if they did take the frog down.
>>6780727cm Brown Frog Skitter Pop is my all-time producer on topwater. Pic related. It's seen some shit. Either steady, dog-walking retrieves or sometimes a slow, sparse, gurgle retrieve. Late spring and early summer before the hydrilla starts getting crazy I usually have luck walking spooks at various speeds parallel to the shoreline. Most of the time they'll get smashed mid-walk but sometimes it helps to pause and let it sit before walking again.
