all right I'm going to show you how to fish this guy right here the z-man Finesse frog guys Darren
here with Wendell fishing thanks for stopping by um this thing was sitting I received it in
a monster bass subscription Box about a year ago and that's where it sat until I finally decided
to break this thing out and figure out how do you fish it because I never fished one of these
finesse frogs before so I'm pretty excited uh I've had a lot of fun with this type of bait uh
recently who doesn't love a top water blow up and this is what these provide so let me real
quick show you how to rig it where to fish it and how to fish it all right let's do this so
let's start with the rigging as you can see this guy look at this missing a leg I must have used
this one before and the basses came and snapped his leg off which is awesome so these things work
um so we'll start with the rigging essentially these little finesse frogs they are a scaled
down version of the of the hard lead frog so this is a just a little shy of three inches
2.75 inches they come in six different colors and they're made from this elastic material
which some people hate and some people love I love it for a variety of reasons which I'll show you in
just a little bit so let's talk about the rigging really quick you're going to need a two hot hook
right now I have a straight shank but I highly recommend using an extra wide Gap I couldn't find
it at the moment but essentially what you're going to do is actually two pockets on this you can kind
of see so it really doesn't matter necessarily if you if you rig it up on the top or you rig
it up in the bottom because you're going to be able to hide the hook on both sides so what I'm
going to do what you usually do is you just run it through the top and run about a quarter inch down
and that's how you get it started so if you want the hook to pop out this way you're going
to run the hook starting off the opposite direction on your particular lure so what
you'll do is you'll run that through put it up in the offset Bend and now what you want to do
is kind of line up where that's going to sit pop it up in there
and then what I'll do is I usually a skin hook just on a little bit to keep that hook
down because a lot of times it'll want to pop up and there you have it that's how you rig up this
little finesse frog on a two ought hook pretty simple now also keep in mind that a lot of the
reasons guys don't like the z-man products because they're so light and so this is the heaviest thing
on this floor is going to be your hook so you're going to want to use a light tackle when fishing
the z-man Finesse frog so next question is where do you want to fish these things and because they
are smaller in design you're not going to get a ton of casting distance unless you're using really
light tackle these were designed to be fished in small streams ponds creeks and you see grass
in the water right above the grass in between the pads I find a lot of luck with these guys to kind
of run them in between the pads and the fish ones come up and smash them and a lot of times if there
are no pads or anything that I just mentioned I'll just throw this to Shore and kind of burn it back
to my kayak and here's the thing a lot of things that I mentioned small Creeks Small Ponds I'm
right now on a 445 acre Lake and this thing's still slays and I usually have the most luck
in the morning and in the evening whenever using this finesse frog and there's a couple different
ways that you can retrieve this particular lore I believe it was designed to be burnt and what
that means he basically just cast it out and do a steady fast retrieve back to your kayak I
believe it was designed that way because it has these little paddle legs on it that create this
nice bubbling sound whenever you're ripping this thing and burning thing back into your boat so
if you're not getting that bubbling sound which it was designed to do it's either not it's not hooked
up correctly or not going fast enough so keep that in mind whenever you're burning this thing back to
your boat and a pro tip here if you're not getting hits on burning it back to your boat very your
retrieve speed up a little bit maybe you're going too fast maybe you're going too slow you just
never know what the bass you're going to want that day so vary your speed's a bit and you might pick
them up if you are burning this thing burn this thing you still are not getting hits another way
that I've had a lot of luck is basically throwing it out there and this kind of popping popping
popping pause let it sit pop pop pause and a lot of times best come up and just hit that thing on
the past and so those are the two ways if I'm ever going to be fishing this finesse frog it's going
to be either burning it back to my boat and if that's not working that's where I start my
follow-up will be throw pop pop pause and usually one of the two will start picking up some bass so
what type of fish will this thing catch obviously largemouth bass but according to zingaman you can
catch some Southern Saratoga sambara Vera I'm not sure because we don't have those fish around here
and also Mangrove Jack so if you're looking to catch some of those fish this might be the trick
for you now that was the most simple way to rig it up and fish it there's also some other ways that
you can rig this up you can use a weighted hook and I have an example of that in my under the seat
let me see what I got here if I can show you what that looks like this is a a weighted hook
which is nice because this is going to pull it down into water column so if you want to fish your
finesse frog not on the top but if you want to let it drop maybe a foot or so and then start pulling
it through the water like a frog swimming through the water that's another way so all I gotta do is
basically buy an extra wide Gap weighted hook too hot in order to get that kind of deeper in the
water column and z-man actually makes what they're called TT lures and they're weighted like a jig
so if you want to fish the bottom water column you can hook up your frog and kind of bounce
that off the bottom as well hey guys I thought that was helpful here's some other ways to fish
different bass lures I got a whole playlist thanks for watching good luck out there bye