Good year for frogs.........

[MIKE*A 0]

Since August, I have been hitting some of the local ponds in the evening. Most of them are down due to a lack of rain. The one i was at this evening was down a good two feet. It also had a pretty thick mat of weeds (much heavier than normal) reaching out 10-15' from shore. There were thousands of tiny frogs in the weeds! the bass were cruising the edge of the weeds picking off stragglers. Fortunately, I stocked up on hooks/corks last winter when Jim Hester ran that special on this forum. I don't think i have ever fished that much w/poppers/sliders before. Tonight, I threw out a simple, green cork popper w/ chartreuse bucktail along the weed line and the bass were hammering it......nothing real big, but a lot of fun none the less. Anyway, back to the original topic about the frogs. I've noticed alot more this year at my regular holes....is it just me or has anyone else noticed this?

 

Mike

[Sean Juan 0]

I'd have to say that I have noticed a lot more toads not so much with the frogs...

 

Glad to hear that you are seeing them because they have been down to next to nothing around here for way too long.

 

Still no where near as many as there used to be 20 years ago...wow did I just say that damn I'm totally old. How did this happen?

 

I can remember one dude asking me to kill the fish in the pond because he felt they ate the frogs and he liked listening to them when he slept in his pond front property with the huge manicured lawn - I didn't kill any fish.

[Guest]

I wonder if it had anything to do with the very wet spring that we had this year? It seems like it rained constantly this spring and might have given the frogs a good year.

[vices 0]

The frog population is being affected quite abit by the sun and U.V rays, very sensitive skin.. alot of scientist study them to find out more about us. Apparently there skin is very similar to our own, but the sun is frying entire populations of frogs.. in as little time as a year(world wide), and with the dropping # in frogs, toads are eatting well.. toads live avoiding the sun.. they say the population will keep growing and frogs keep dropping.. ( This is just what i have gathered reading watching the news and talking with people intrested in the subject)

[Guest]

Seen plenty of each this year. I can always tell when we've had good growth because they begin to show up in my backyard! Lots of Bullfrogs and Leopard frogs this Summer.

[MIKE*A 0]

Will, you are probably right about the wet Spring.........I've heard that stuff in the past about the holes in the ozone and it's advrse effect on frogs........I'm sure glad to see them rebound this year......as are the bass I'm sure.......

[Guest]

Yea I have read some articles myself talking about mutations and dwindling numbers in frogs because of the bad water quality as well. Mutated frogs are a good indicator of something in the water.

 

I did have a 5 legged toad for a pet as a kid

[vices 0]

Will, that reminds me of a show I watched a year or 2 ago, Bob Izumi was fishing just off the shore of clarington(Ontario Lake) "Clarington has a nuke plant".. He pull out an 8 pound carp with no tail... and no signs of scar's

[nathan 0]

I don't know where most of you guys are from...But here in Missouri this year was a bumper years for frogs...all types..Bull,leopard,and those little ones mentioned in the first post..Nathan