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BY SCOTT M. PETERSEN
D with Dean Rojas
ean Rojas has made a name for himself
hopping frogs and catching bass. We all
know he dominates with a frog rod in his
hand; but what we don’t know is why. I got an opportunity to sit down with the Rojas, the
bass to strike a frog in open water away from cover at certain times.”
Typical targets to fish a frog are around cover, over hang trees, boat docks or an inside weedline. Each of these can be prime locations at certain times of the
frog master himself, and I posed this question to him,
day and the season; but Rojas looks at areas that are
what are your top-five frog fishing secrets? Here is
outside these traditional frog areas and doesn’t limit
what Dean came back with.
himself to the “usual” and will work his frog in open
water, if other variables are right.
WHEN IT COMES TO FROG FISHING THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS TO THE BAIT
One key condition to open water, is the right temperature.
“Make sure that the water is warm enough for the bass to hit a bait that is close by,” he said. “If the water
“Many fishermen get hung up that they can only
is too cold, the bass will not make enough of a move to
fish a frog when they are fishing around grass or some strike a frog that is too far out of the strike zone, like
sort of cover,” he began. “That is wrong, you can get a they will when the water is warmer”.
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