Marty Stone
The amiable North Carolinian bass pro Marty
Stone employs two retrieves at the edge of
cover and in open water. “One is a speed retrieve
— four or five hard pops, followed by a pause, then
repeat the sequence,” explains Stone. “The other
is a ‘pop-pause’ — pop then let it sit…pop, let it sit.
One of those two will do it. If not, it’s not a frog
day!” He uses the “pop-pause” retrieve at the
edge of prime cover, varying both the length
of the pop and the duration of the pause. “It’s
like the frog coming out of cover and just looking,”
he says. Stone declares that 90 percent of his
strikes come while the bait is sitting. In open
water, his retrieve is faster accompanied by a
shorter pause. Open water frogging employs
the frog as a search bait. It is designed to call
fish from a longer distance.
The “dean of frogging,” Bassmaster Elite pro
Dean Rojas, designed the Spro Bronzeye Frog,
one of the most popular hollow-bodied frogs
on the market today. Rojas prefers to “walk” his
frog whenever conditions allow. Two seasons
ago, he designed the Spro Bronzeye Shad,
a hollow-body frog-style bait with a single
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