2012 frogs only thing

[djkimmel]

It was wet, cold but still fun! The parking lot looks like part of the lake! Nice pictures! Thanks boss!

[Mojo]

Results of the 2nd Annual Bob O Frog O Bass Championship

Winners: Derek and Dan - 4.96 lb          $100
2nd:       Frank and Mike - 2.18 lb.         $60
Big Bass:  Derek and Dan - 3.70 lb.        $50
Best Frog Bait Attempt:  Frank - Frog painted (and even kinda shaped like a frog)- rattletrap


100% payout And the Director grilled some awesome Dogs and Burgs. Thank you Bob O for hosting us at your campsite. Looking forward to next year and the poll for next years lake.

[djkimmel]

Yes. Thanks for the food bob o! And for the follow up Mojo.

Question - shouldn't 'Rain' be somewhere in the title of the event?

I thought VinceR and Jay-MadWags were going to win but after hearing they caught 30+ fish in practice, I think they burned their 'hot spot!'

We didn't practice or even fish Lake Ovid since last year so 'our fish' were fresh!!

Actually, I missed a big fish last year out of a hole in the weeds on a little hump and Derek caught our big fish from the same exact hole Saturday (I didn't want to try again in case I missed again)! After he missed the bass the first time. We approached the spot from a different angle and got the bass the 2nd time.

We came back a while later and he missed a bigger bass from the same exact little hole in the weeds again!! I'm going to have to find out what is in that little hole! And figure out how to trick the bigger bass that live in it better.

I was lucky to catch 1 of Vince and Jay's bass right after they left the area with about 30 minutes to go. Thanks guys!! As soon as I started reeling the frog fast late in the tournament day, I got 4 strikes including the first 2 casts I sped up. Just had trouble hooking them. The 2 of us missed 1 nice keeper 3 times. Maybe our reactions were slowed down by wet clothes? There sure were a bunch of frog lines all over the weeds!

I did catch a dink on my first cast of the morning and my keeper on the Bass Frog Clone. First time I've had the chance to try them. I had several other strikes on it. The bass seem to like them.

[YpsiBass]

I did catch a dink on my first cast of the morning and my keeper on the Bass Frog Clone. First time I've had the chance to try them. I had several other strikes on it. The bass seem to like them.

Must be the brown one you were fishing because they didn't like the green one at all.  Green legs, yellow legs, didn't matter.  Nice win though Dan.

[djkimmel]

Thanks. It was the brown one but it has the same white belly the bass see in the green one. I thought about starting with the Yellow Dart but yellow is another color like red for bass - they either cream it or run from it! I don't think yellow is as good as often as red but I was interested in it for the shock value that sometimes gets 'trained' bass to bite. That might be poor thinking since some research shows yellow/chartreuse actually appears as a brighter white to bass. So, maybe I should have tried it?

With the extreme weather change I figured I was better off starting with a 'safe' white belly. I caught a small bass almost immediately and stuck with it. It did have the brown legs. Not sure if the bass cared or not. I had a couple strikes and landed a small bass on a brownish Horny Toad too though?

I usually prefer green over brown so I made myself do something different by tying on the brown instead. It was a not-quite subconscious attempt to boost my confidence a little in preparation for a cold, wet day. I have often felt angler confidence does more than color choice.

I really wish I had thought of speeding up the retrieve a lot earlier once things slowed down and we got around the areas that already had frog tracks crisscrossing every which way! I used to think of that stuff without really thinking of it. I'm rusty (plus cold and wet during the event).

Vince helped by mentioning how he had slowed waaaayyy down when we fishing nearby. Reminded me that I had though several times during the day that I should try high speed as a contradiction to what most anglers would think the weather conditions called for. Besides, slowing down is really Derek's job, not mine!