You know those shallow, cover-laden flats where you wouldn’t want to be a frog because of the bass? Those are exactly the kinds of places where you want to fish a Rebel Pop’N Frog and spring begins prime time for putting it to work. The name Pop’N Frog describes this little lure well. It is frog shaped and comes in four froggy color patterns,
but the front of the lure is cupped so that it pops and chugs. Only 1 7/8 inches long, a Pop’N Frog looks like an easy meal to a bass or a pike and it actually draws a lot of action from bluegills, rock bass and other panfish. Rattles provide extra draw.
The popping face is relatively small and mostly out of the water when the lure is at rest. That allows a Pop’N Frog to walk side to side better than most poppers and to make more of spitting/chugging splash than a deep pop.
One popular Pop’N Frog presentation is to cast it beside a specific target – whether that’s a gap in the lily pads, the end of a downed tree, or a stump – and let it rest for a few seconds. Then pop it with a quick twitch of the wrist, pause it, and pop it one more time before reeling it back quickly and casting to another target.
The same lure also can be worked slowly with alternating pops and pauses along a weedy edge, the side of a dock or some other edge. In either case, fish often attack when the lure is sitting completely still and resting nose up like a real frog.
This lure isn’t limited to slow presentations, though. Quick rhythmic twitches, each with the rod tip high and a bit of slack in the line, make it walk the dog nicely, but with a bit of chug. A walking/chugging presentation tends to work best for calling fish from broader areas, so it’s a good approach if fish are scattered in submerged grass or stumps or just cruising over a flat.
A good patterning technique is to offer fish the best of both worlds on every cast until you see when strikes occur. Cast to the shore or next to a specific piece of cover and let the bait rest several seconds. Pop it once, pause it a few more seconds, and pop it again. If that doesn’t prompt a strike, work it the rest of the way back with a faster walking/chugging presentation.
However you work a Pop’N Frog, remain ready until the lure is out of the water on every cast. A vicious strike can occur at any time
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