MASTERS SERIES
hollow-bodied FROGS
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As told by Dean Rojas
PHOTO BY PHOENIX MOORE
can ’ t remember the first hollow-bodied frog I ever
I saw , but those early frogs were never a big part of my fishing . It was just too hard to hook and land bass on those lures . Then , in 1999 , I was working with a photographer , and he wanted me to put one of those early frogs in a bass ’ mouth for a picture . I did , and that photo ran as a cover shot , even though I didn ’ t catch that fish on a frog . It got me thinking about those lures and how they could be improved .
Later , a friend showed me how he was skipping a Sumo Frog under docks at Lake Havasu . It was a fun casting challenge – to skip a lure as far under a dock or overhang as possible and get it through all kinds of cover . That ’ s when I started to see the possibilities of the hollow-bodied frog , and I really started working on my technique .
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