Who has done it on a hot Summer Night? I have caught them with my hands. And on a gig. And with a treble hook and a piece of Red felt. Do you feel hunting bull frogs with the bow has some advantages over gigging? Tell us about it. Pictures welcome.

When I was a kid, bow and arrow is how we got our frogs. You have to shoot from behind them and pin them down, if you shoot one facing you they can jump off the arrow.

Yep a kid with a bow an arrow, mighty tasty frog legs

Fun Stuff!

Them legs are good eating. Been a long time since I chased those guys. Last time I went a group of us went to the Colorado River near Yuma. Huge frogs, huge Mohave Rattlesnakes.

As a kid we chased everything with our fiberglass bows. Green frogs, Bull frogs included. We would start a fire and cook the legs with a stick. We probably looked like Lord of the flies :>)))

I'll confess we weren't trad but floated the Yadkin river and killed them with a Winchester model 61 pump .22 and short HP's. It had the most accurate open iron sights that ever came on a .22 IMHO. My uncle couldn't always reach bottom with the paddle so my cousin and I got deadly making "drift "shots" when we had to. Better break the spine or it would hit the water and be gone with the current before you could get to it. I saw one of those rifles NIB at an estate sale bring $2000. The frogs I'm taking about were taken in daylight, not nighttime. It wasn't unusual to take 30-40. We kept it up for years without hurting the population. Camped and fried the legs over the fire. By the time I was in my 20's it was all over, the frogs were gone and you won't find one today. Folks who should know said it was the "new" Round-up runoff from the farm bottom fields. They said it's death to amphibians.

We always just caught them by hand. I really never had a bow .

We would go to the gravel pit and catch about thirty or forty. Put them in a burlap bag and take them to our pond.

We had bass in our pond. Some pretty decent size ones to. They were so use to us bringing frogs that they would school around us when they heard our four wheeler coming.

We threw them one by one into the pond and the bass would hit them as soon as they hit the water. We could literally fake throwing one and the bass would swim to where they thought we would throw one.

Bass can eat a lot of frogs. We conservatively put 1,000 frogs in that pond and there were never frogs left in it.

I have a small pond I dug several years ago. I didn’t put any fish in it and it was loaded with frogs. My son and grandkids caught one bass from my dads pond and put it in my pond. The frogs are gone. That big bass is still in there.

Those were fun days. We did cook up frog legs occasionally and I love frog legs to this day. We didn’t have those big guys you have though. They were very tasty though.

The Bass seemed to think so to

Bjrogg

I'm not opposed to Round Up,but I will agree. There are nowhere the bullfrog as it use to be. What us puzzling, is use to be a bunch of folks gigging. Now hardly anyone does it anymore. Me,I always preferred a stout 5 prong fish gig on a paint roller handle.

I was told that the Presence of trout or frogs in a water source. Is a tell tale sign that the water Quality is very good. In my neck of the woods. There are still plenty of frogs. But some bodies of water are better then others. But once you find a frog honey hole keep it under your hat.

Don, you are correct Frogs are bellweather species. I volunteered for our DNR to build a listening route at certain times of the year. First I had to learn to identify all the frogs and toads calls. Then keep a log from my route.

Green frogs and Bull frogs are struggling in my area.

Just like some people won’t eat deer. Some people won’t try frogs either. Sure beats processed foods.

Just look at the musculature, Don! Absolutely puts to shame the hot wings I had last night.

BoB, LOL I like hot wings too!:)

I will eat frog legs anytime!

Cook my frog legs like hot wings. Mmm

It’s been a while but my and a buddy hunted frogs with a bow for years. We would wade the water out from the shore and shine the light. You could get up in the easy. We shot longbows with wood arrows and blunts. Some good times. I need to get back out again

My mom use to bread them and than fry them very good eating

hard to beat frogs legs, biscuits, and gravy right at dawn after a night out feeding the leeches and mosquitos. soaking in salt water makes them a bit less likely to try & jump out of the skillet.

It’s been a while, but I used to poke quite a few on summer nights.

Make a slit behind the knee. Cut all the way to the joint. Keeps the legs open while frying.

I do the same with squirrel and rabbit legs.

Yup taste just like frog. Very tasty indeed.;)

Yup taste just like frog. Very tasty indeed.;)

Haven't used a bow yet but did get a few the other evening with my air rifle. Shot two at 60 yards and two at forty yards. Missed a few and lost a couple that made it back into the pond. My grandson and grandaughter love shooting them and eating them.

I never use a bow and arrow to take frogs, but years ago when I was a young teen, my friend and I would team up and take frogs with our slingshots. On the count of three we would let a rock fly. A double tap stopped those frogs in their tracks.

As a kid it was first the slingshot, and later the bow and airgun. With the bow, while wading in the water,it was necessary to hurry to the frog once you make the shot. Otherwise he just might get off. With the air gun,the double tap worked well. By loading two pellets in the gun, it seem to have a little extra umph. Seldom did they get away. Dang they were tasty.

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