Frog migration

[mcdee]

Every few years hundreds of frogs will sit along shore lines in certain areas in Manitoba and the Walleyes sit and wait for them to swim out into deeper water. I stumbled on to this 10 years ago when jigging with minnows close to shore on Lake Manitoba and catching a few eyes and when filleting them I checked out there bellies and guess what, All full of frogs. Fishing is fantastic during these times. Anyone else experience this in there area?:secret:

[Burr]

Yep, when the frogs are there naturally, they are a spectacular bait.

What I've noticed that is odd - is walleye absolutely POUND a frog - they hit really hard - all the time. Not sure why there is never a soft bite on a frog.

Need to use a multi hook rig. Too many bites behind a single hook rig.

[l]

Little different but In-Fisherman mentions the nite bite during the fall frog migration fairly often. Smallmouth on non-walleye lakes up north are pretty fond of frogs. I've caught several saugeye through the ice that had frogs in their belly.

[mcdee]

Yes thats right mostly just after dark in and in the Fall.

[rks]

catching and using frogs for bait could be illegal. Some states have open and closed seasons on them. Therefore any fish caught on them would be illegaly caught.

[Chuckles]

True - but if you don't mind snooping through the bass areas of the sotres or catalogs there are many plastics that immitate the size, shape and action of frogs - and some of them work well on a walleye sized jig - but the walleyes on the backwater sloughs of the Mississippi NEVER bite those in the fall - sshhhhh ;) Chuckles

[manitobawalleye]

in manitoba i have used the old reliable uncle josh's

manitoba .... a 100,000 lakes
how many walleyes ????
i will never have enough time....

[l]

HJ's are mentioned by In-Fish as working for the fall frog migration if you don't want to use a bass bait.