“We fished a two-day tournament on Guntersville (in Alabama) last year, and we led the tournament after the first day and we caught every bass on that Scum Frog,” Gibson said. “We fished a lot of vegetation, and strikes came all day long.
“Everything we did that day was a success, and they were crushing the Scum Frog.”
While many lures have their own built-in action, Gibson said frogs simply float and the angler must apply the action through his or her own design and technique.
While there’s a period of time each year when the bass will strike anything moving on the water, most of the time you have to vary your retrieve depending upon what they want that day.
“You’ve got to put action on the frogs,” said Gibson, who at 74 is still highly competitive and runs two miles daily to stay in shape. “I’ll jump it, skip it and hop it back to the boat in an erratic fashion, and I’ll keep changing the action until I find out how they want it that day.”
Gibson caught a 10-pound bass on a frog at Neshoba Lake last year, and as May arrives he is hoping to beat that with a bigger one.
“I don’t know if it’s love or hate, but they either really love them or really hate the frogs — but it doesn’t matter to me,” Gibson said. “As long as they keep smashing those frogs with bone-crushing strikes I’ll keep fishing them.”
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