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Topic Archives => Memorable Hunts => Topic started by: Tom Mussatto on May 28, 2007, 02:22:00 AM
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Was out in the back yard this evening catching crawlers for to get me a catfish dinner and checked out the frogin' pond. Sounds like it's gonna be a good year. Season comes in here in a couple weeks.
I'll get wet, I'll get muddy, I'll get bug bit, I'll lose a bunch of arrows, and wife will probably make me undress on the deck before coming back in the cabin, but I'm gonna be eating good. Seems the older I get the more I act like an eight year old. :)
Dinner Bell (http://tmuss.tripod.com/frog1.wmv)
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I cant wait, our season opens June 15th. I have never shot'em with bows, I have always gigged them. We are going to use our bows this year.
what kind of points do you use?
Blunts, field tips, Judos.
I like the Dinner bell link. LOL
Tom, I looked at your home page and saw this picture. Very Very Funny.
(http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n140/702plmo/foxsquirrel.jpg)
Kinda of reminds me of this pic.
(http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n140/702plmo/world_record_kill.jpg)
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I was mowing around the pond the other day and there at least 10 good ones just waiting to be shot at.There was 2 nice big water snakes that would make good backings too,Have to wait also. :banghead:
Tracy
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Is that a skwirl: and is that a trad rifle. My goodness, what is this world comin to?
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Poor frogs don't have a chance!!!!
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Lots of croakers, peepers and bullfrogs in that vid Tom.
You got the cast iron skillet and breading ready to go?
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Jim, in the past I usually just used field points with the point ground off to about .25 caliber. Work fine for frogs but bury deep in the mud. This year I'm gonna try hex blunts.
Originally posted by the Ferret:
You got the cast iron skillet and breading ready to go?
Why? I'm married. And thank God wife doesn't read this message board. :)
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Nothing finer than frog legs rolled in some flour, garlic salt, and cheyenne pepper, then fried up in some oil. And there's no better way to get 'em than with a bow...
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I absolutely love to frog hunt AND eat them rascals!
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/ck/img_0234.jpg)
You should have the video from this picture by now. Hope you enjoy the video.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/Littlefeather/Fish136_12_4s.jpg)
Have fun Tom and give me a call if the frogs get too thick. I'll drop anything to do some froggin. Sounds like some big ones in the video. CK
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Found this picture. It's a favorite of mine. I always like to say that this frog died of chronic patience. :D CK
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/Littlefeather/patience.jpg)
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Curtis, haven't received the frog video yet but Terry told me it'll be coming this way. That last pic of yours is a pretty good description of my frog hunting. I guess it's a good thing our daily limit up here is only 8. :)
Went down to the pond to see, instead of just hear, what I've got to work with this season. On the way I passed a tree where I've got a dove sit'n eggs. Big black ratsnake was heading her way for an easy meal of eggs. I love these snakes, and catch'em whenever I can and put'em in my barns. Probably have moved a hundred or more in there over the years. Last year I caught them killing young rabbits, young squirrels (up in the trees yet), and frogs in the pond.
I pulled this snake off that tree 4 times before he got the message and headed away.
Predator on the move (http://tmuss.tripod.com/snake.wmv)
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What are you feeding those frogs???? That one is HUGE!!
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Looks like an Emory Ratsnake. I've seen those get enormous. Got one out of the neighbor ranchers chicken coop. He'd eaten two banty roosters and tried to squeese out a hole. No doing with the chickens in him. I think he was around 7 1/2'. I like the good looking croaker in the end of the clip.
I generally shoot cheap three blade broadheads for frogs. I don't shoot good enough to peg em with a blunt. I generally blunt the end of a three blade and keep the blades sharp. Goves some shock and still cuts if you miss a little one way or the other. I like the old hills hornets.
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Some bjg frogs there littlefeather. We've always just caught them aat night with our hands. May have to try the longbow this year..
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The heck with going to Texas to hunt hogs,I wanna go hunt giant bullfrogs... :bigsmyl:
Wouldn't take many that size to make a meal....
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I wish we had frogs like that around here, I'd be eat-in good.
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Here's a little fella that lives in my attic on his way home
Lookin in to see what I'm up to
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/theferret111/2007_05250011.jpg)
heading up the window
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/theferret111/2007_05250014.jpg)
headed toward the eve
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/theferret111/2007_05250016.jpg)
I still say there's just something wrong with something that can run and climb and doesn't have any arms or legs!
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Tons of water this year hopefully by July 1st it will be down enough to see them out of the grass. My grill is just calling for frog legs slathered in garlic butter. yummy!!!
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I need to put that on a loop......it'd be like camping out in my bedroom. :thumbsup:
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Frog legs are fine table fare. Not too many around here anymore.
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I would love to shoot frogs but I dont think id eat one of them things. One kind of points do you guys use? Are wood arrows a good choice?
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2Blade, why not. They make for fine cuisine...
Any arrow material is fine so long as you know that they're gonna get wet and covered in all sorts of muck. Everyone seems to have they're favored points, but I like plain old Judo's and rubber blunts, with the rubber blunts being prefered...
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Nick, you just eat the rear legs (at least that's all we eat). You take a couple of big bullfrog legs and clip off the feet, skin them, rinse them off, dip them in milk, then roll them in flour with seasonings, and cook them in a cast iron skillet with hot oil. Then eat.... it's a lot like fried chicken.
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Nick, trust me, if Micky will eat them they're very safe and very edible. :goldtooth:
Just had to pick on Mick before I headed out. :D CK
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All this talk of froggin has got my belly rumblin! 2Blade, taken care of correctly (kept chilled) and cooked right, they are some of the finest eatin to be had. We've shot up a few and eaten them at Texas Sweat II and III (no frog's at this year's spot). Quite a few fellers there have never had the pleasure of samplin frog...the plates emptied pretty quick after the first taste.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/recurvhuntr/Texas%20Sweat%20II/Picture033.jpg)
I like to use a hex head, just enough penetration to pin em down till you can get to em and still enough cutting/shock to often shut em down on the spot. Broadheads beat up a bit too much to shoot at big game are perfect for frogs too.
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I take it with a rubber blunt any hit in the body would kill them since they are such a small animal?
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Pinning them to the bank is much better and cuts down on lost arrows.
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Nick, nope, they are tough critters to stop. You definately want some sort of penetration to slow em down. I've seen frogs with the brainpan gone jump right into the water never to be seen again. Every now and then you'll shut one down with a shot that severs the spine but that's certainly not the norm.
Don't lay a "dead" one down on the bank or bottow of the boat too soon either...it'll probably make it's way back to the water.
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Here in KS we can only use a bow if they are set up with the same rig that's legal for bowfishing; an arrow with a barbed head attached to a line. The average bowfishing head can tear them up pretty bad, so I have a couple arrows rigged with a small gigging head from Sully's.
The kids an I have a ball. They like to gig and I like to shoot at them. Very tastey! Folks who've never tried them, and ususally don't intend to, always ask me if they really taste like chicken. I always tell them no; they taste like chicken SHOULD taste! They don't know what they're missing.
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Thanks JC
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Chris has talked me into shootin them with the ol bow this year, this aint ginna be good i can already tell ya..
i still cant believe yall have a SEASON for FROGS! that dont even make sense...
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Yeah, man, but I keep telling you...them frog's legs are to die for Trad Only...