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PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

I had some time to kill while my son was at his kempo karate class this evening, so I shore fished Stub Pond for the first time from 6:50 pm to 7:35 pm. It's just a retention pond with a small spillway dam. It was drained dry last year, so I wasn't expecting much. I threw a Zoom Horny Toad on a red Gamakatsu 4/0 Offset Shank Worm EWG hook. The part of the pond that I fished is narrow and long, so I was able to cast all the way across the pond as I walked up the shore. The weeds along the shore were pretty slimy, so I had to bury the tip of the hook in the frog. I got a lot of hits from small largemouth bass and soon learned to pretty much ignore them. However, I also got hits from five keeper largemouth bass and there was no mistaking them. All of them thought that they were smallies. Very Happy

I had an absolute blast. I didn't have a tape measure or scale with me, but only the first one was close to not being a keeper. The last of the five was the biggest and probably weighed around three pounds:

I love frogging! Very Happy

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MarkO · Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 330

They sure look like they have been eating well...great job.

chud059 · Joined: 29 Mar 2011 Posts: 413 Location: Manchester

That wouldn't happen to be right on Rt 44 Would it? When I worked in Avon 2 years ago, I pulled over to this pond right on 44 and it had a little spill way damn thingy. Didn't catch anything in it, but it was really shallow. it had a brick utility house and a dirt road and small parking area... a real pain to get back on the road during evening rush hour.

DirtyDawg10 · Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 2238 Location: Granby, CT

Nice!

mep21 · Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 65 Location: West Hartford, CT

Loving all the frogging going on Phil! Nice fish. I'm dying to get back out and do some of my own!

pondhopper · Joined: 31 Mar 2011 Posts: 49

Hey, nice job PECo! I have always had a special interest in frogn.

Speaking of frogn... I have recently found that when the bite is dead from cold fronts or big storms, you can run a rage tail frog (or most noisy,weedless, top water baits) over and through thick cover like lilly pads, and stir up quite a few hits!
Which is nice when all the usual patterns are not producing.

I fished 2hrs the other day and nothing was hitting at any of my usual hot spots. After trying many different patterns, I started with rage tail and got 8 good strikes in the next 2hrs! And boated 4 of them.

I guess thats where they lay low when they are not active and the ragetail triggers a reaction strike, even though they are not eating. Whatever reason it works, I DO know it works, and its a technique that might save an otherwise slow, frustrating trip to the lake.

Just wanted to share my frogn experience. Good job with your frogn PECo.
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