The Gear You Don't Think About When Frog Fishing From a Kayak

I find people have a love-hate relationship with frog fishing. The ones that hate it just haven't figured it out/been properly taught. Or maybe it is the smell of the swampy weed mats and black mud of the lake/river and the swarm of bugs. For those of us that love it, we love the smell of that swamp. We embrace the bugs (with limitations - hence the deet and head nets in my kayaks' dry bag). We live the lines in the weed mats and duckweed. Our senses of sight and sound are trained to find new and old blow-up holes to target. We love the rush of adrenaline as we hesitate, against every fabric of our instinct, before we set that hook. We love hauling in that unknown fish and unwrapping it from the weeds like a kid on Christmas morning...... I've written/done videos/helped clients (when I was guiding) with the standards of frog fishing before. Heavy rod, heavy reel, thick braid, difference in frog types and colors, counting to 3 before setting the hook, etc. Some