Frog giging

Spent lots of nights as a kid spearing them... Frog legs and quail were a delicacy for me growing up...

Now I have to go to Valdosta GA to find quail for Sunday breakfast... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Wading the strip pits in central Oklahoma with a flashlight and 3-prong gig. Gettin' eaten by skeeters, and on guard for cottonmouths. Running trotlines at dawn and rasslin' big snappers before work. Yep, I used to have a good life.
 
Reminds me of my younger years. Can remember one nite gigging suckers that a friend and myself had to go home to get help to carry all of them.....Today, that same stream doesn't even have fish in it!!
 
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I didnt know where to post it so I thought this might be a good place. Has anybody ever done its a blast and good eating.



You might have to ask the Flea

By the way using a Gig is cheating you are supposed to just catch them with your hands.


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NEVER TRIED IT!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif
 
That is a fine mess of frog legs there. We use to gig for frog and ocassionly a carp or small mouth would get in the way.

Some of the best fun I had was sitting on the bank of the pond at night with a high powered spot light and a 22 rifle. We would plink them off and then go gather them up.
 
OH yeah, many summer nights wading the irrigation canals in central CA as a teenager. One guy with the light and burlap sack, one with the gig. Good fun and good eatin.
 
Never speared a frog, but caught a few by swinging a fishing line over em with a piece of red cloth on the hook. Never caught any RED ones though.
 
caught em. shot em , gigged em, red string on a hook in ark. but the most fun was throwing a super duper ( fishing lure) on the moss at crystal lake ( so cal) and watch the frogs go under and come up closer and closer till the hammer them and fight them like a big fish with legs!! can catch them all day and never get your feet wet!! just keep shaking the lure and they will get it..
 
We did a lot of frog-en when i was young with a gig but mostly with a single shot 22 rifle and shorts. I love frog legs, you know the old saying they Taste Like Chicken. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
 
Redfrog:
If we kid you, would that be 'gigging'? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

On a serious note, I have my dad's old gig from the '50's back when they gigged everything, frogs, catfish, carp, anything to put food on the table.

It is a mean looking thing--5 prongs and barbed. Dad passed away before we could do any of that together, but a yellow jig on a cane pole works pretty good, to!
Tim
 
i shot a nice frog with a pellet gun and it just sat there, so i creeped up and made a grab for it and came up with the frog and the snake that had the rest of him in it's mouth!! i let that one go!!
 
I think about those times every now and then. It's been almost 40 years since I went gigging.
Frog gigging was a lot of fun. Wading up the creeks in the middle of the night with a Coleman gas lantern, barbed gig, an old single shot 22 and a sack made from the leg of an old pair of jeans.
I was more afraid of low hanging hornet nests than snakes.
The legs were delicious the next day too!
 
If you think gigging is fun try hitting them with a low pound recurve, i promise you its some of the best fun you will ever have. The best thing is most of the times if you miss they don't hop away they just set there so you get a few more shots, lots of fun practicing up for squirrel season.
 
Frog gigging is an industry down in the Everglades where I used to live and I have done a bit. Fresh legs fried in butter is maybe better than trout for breakfast. What I have always wanted to do, however, (and am now too arthritic and out of shape to attempt) is catfish noodling. Take a look at okienoodling.com. Looks like a sport for real men.
 
i always wanted to try gigging but most of the frogs that ive come across around here have a horrible smell and have growths all over there faces. maybe its just the area ive been to but a couple other people i know have seen the same thing and think they look to ugly so they dont wanna touch em
 
Never really thought about doing an Frog hunting. I don't like them, or other reptiles for that matter. I know Frogs are an important part of the ecosystem but they Gross me out.
The little ones aren't bad, The big ones make my skin crawl!!!!
 


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