Frog Hunting

Whitetail Addict · March 16, 2015, 11:28:00 AM

With spring right around the corner, I can't help thinking about the things I like to do in nice weather. Frog hunting and eating frog legs is one of them. My oldest grandson Blake (5) loves to shoot, and we always talk about hunting together. His eyes really lit up yesterday when I told him I'd take him frog hunting this year. When I told him we'd eat the ones we shot, he said yuck lol. Season opens the middle of June here, and I can't wait to get my little buddy out after them. It'll be his first actual hunting experience. Anybody else hunt frogs with their bow? Thanks.

Bob

mangonboat · March 16, 2015, 12:23:00 PM

Bob, I never tried hunting frogs at night with a headlamp, not sure if its legal in NC, but I was uniformly unsucessful in daylight hours. Too small a target from 25 yards and one miss is all you get for the day. I was too impatient to stalk them. I'm guessing its like the old adage about putting a frog in a pan of cold water and turn on the heat..they never try to jump out...move slow enough and they'll never jump in.

Tajue17 · March 16, 2015, 12:49:00 PM

I'm big into Frogging with the bow... but last year I hit the old spots and I'm noticing there isn't as many as there was the 1st time so I need to hold off or find some new spots,,,, I wear waders and kind of stalk around the edge and shoot towards the bank so I can use regular fletched arrows.

Pine · March 16, 2015, 01:03:00 PM

My first hunting experience was frogs back in the late 1960s .
Did it up till they outlawed it in the 1980s .
Sure do miss it , that was a hoot and good eating .

Pine · March 16, 2015, 01:15:00 PM

One of my first harvests with my bow . I am the one on the right ,friend with me stopped by the he house just as I had got back to the house .

Whitetail Addict · March 16, 2015, 02:16:00 PM

Cool picture Graps, thank you.

Tajue 17, I hunt them pretty much the same way. I went to an old fishing spot last year for the first time in several years. It was always a good trout pond, but has more bass than trout in it these days. I was pretty disappointed to learn that such a nice trout pond was over run with bass. Not that I don't like bass fishing, but you know what I mean. I was standing there grumbling under my breath about the bass, when it dawned on me that I was hearing frogs all over the place. After looking around a little, I found that It's over run with big bullfrogs too. That made me feel a little better about the whole deal. You'd think with the bass there now, the frogs wouldn't be as thick as they were, but I'm not going to look a gift frog in the mouth.

Thanks for the replies everybody.

Bob

Izzy · March 16, 2015, 03:47:00 PM

Yessir, Bob, we love frog hunting. My little one shot this one a couple years ago when he was 7. It didn't even make it home. We immediately started a fire and roasted its legs right there and then. He even made the banner up top with that frog.

Izzy · March 16, 2015, 03:51:00 PM

I shot this one when it was facing away from me and had a surprise when I retrieved him.

mangonboat · March 16, 2015, 05:53:00 PM

What a bunch of red tape to hunt frogs in North Carolina ! If you collect fewer than 25 frogs or 5 reptiles annually, no license required, but more than that you need a Wildlife Collection License , $7 online-only. This is the same license you need to collect any other non-game species. If you hunt in Tyrell County, you can hunt frogs from a roadway but not a vehicle. You can hunt (frogs) from a boat but the engine has to be off and the boat has to have stopped moving . In Alligator River NWR, you can only hunt frogs with a gig. No frog -hunting on any other NRW or GMA.Finally, the NC General Assembly has authorized the NC wildlife Commission to make regulations allowing the use of lights to hunt frogs during non-hunting (night) hours, but so far NCWC has not made any regs allowing that. So I guess I have to get my daylight frog-stalk on.

Whitetail Addict · March 16, 2015, 06:35:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by mangonboat:
What a bunch of red tape to hunt frogs in North Carolina ! If you collect fewer than 25 frogs or 5 reptiles annually, no license required, but more than that you need a Wildlife Collection License , $7 online-only. This is the same license you need to collect any other non-game species. If you hunt in Tyrell County, you can hunt frogs from a roadway but not a vehicle. You can hunt (frogs) from a boat but the engine has to be off and the boat has to have stopped moving . In Alligator River NWR, you can only hunt frogs with a gig. No frog -hunting on any other NRW or GMA.Finally, the NC General Assembly has authorized the NC wildlife Commission to make regulations allowing the use of lights to hunt frogs during non-hunting (night) hours, but so far NCWC has not made any regs allowing that. So I guess I have to get my daylight frog-stalk on.

Wow! If you're hunting with a gun or bow here, a hunting license is required. If Jigging, a fishing license. You can't hunt them with a gun at night.

Bob

Whitetail Addict · March 16, 2015, 06:42:00 PM

Great pictures Izzy, thank you. That's a great pic of your son, you should both be proud. Please tell him I said congrats on his great shot.

I don't think I've ever seen anything like the pic of the frog with the mouse. I had no idea they'd tackle something that size, and they can bite too. thanks Izzy.

Bob

degabe · March 21, 2015, 08:53:00 PM

WE hunted them all the time with bows when we were kids but the DNR decided that wasn't right so now it is gig or by hand. It just isn't as much fun using a gig but they still taste good.

South MS Bowhunter · March 21, 2015, 10:24:00 PM

Did someone say FROGS? And bow hunting?

Love it, here a short video of last year with the St. Jude bow Hope.

https://youtu.be/T1KHlI7nSgs

Look up my handle and search my post and you will see many story and how too on how e do it down South.

highlow · March 23, 2015, 09:01:00 AM

As a kid I used to shoot frogs with my solid green glass bow in a little pond next to the local golf course. Had a ball and occasionally hit one. Years later discovered that the chemical factory across the street was illegally pumping by-products of their operation into that very some pond. Ended up being a Super Fund clean-up site. I haven't mutated into anything too alarming as a result.

Whitetail Addict · March 24, 2015, 01:08:00 PM

degabe, That doesn't even make sense, does it? In theory, they know what they're doing, and I'm sure the biologists are smarter than I am, but I just don't understand that. You're right though. Not as much fun, but still tasty.

South MS Bowhunter, that's the first frog hunting video I've seen, but I'll be watching more, thanks.

highlow, At one time there was a tannery right next to a stream that I fished, and ate the trout out of for many years. The waste ran into that stream too. The state came in several years ago, did a clean up, and left the white pipes sticking up out of the ground in several places that they use to test the soil. I've seen the people there testing several times in full hazmat suits. I never even gave the fact that there was a tannery on the site a second thought for years, but every time I see them there testing now, it sure makes me wonder what all I ate with my trout.

Thanks for the replies and pictures everybody, I appreciate it. If the ice goes out by June this year, I hope to post a picture of my grandson and some frogs myself.

Bob