Frog Gigs & Hunting?

K Williams

K Williams

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Who keeps forg gigs in their survival kit? Where did you get them from? What's the best method for spearing or hunting frogs. I caught a frog once as a kid using a flashlight and a baseball hat!
 
I don't keep one in my kit just because I feel they can be fashioned pretty easily in the woods. I know you can get them from Meijer, if that helps. Don't know much more than you about catching, as I used to use a flashlight myself when I was a kid.
 
K Williams said:
Who keeps forg gigs in their survival kit? Where did you get them from? What's the best method for spearing or hunting frogs. I caught a frog once as a kid using a flashlight and a baseball hat!
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I have a couple I picked up in a gas station in FL when visiting the in-laws. Gigs are great! Not only for frogs, but snakes, turtles, fish and other small game.

ROCK6
 
frog gigs/spears are a lot of fun...:thumbup: i have a few, but don't keep them in my kit... like spooky said, they can be fashioned fairly easily...

i love frogs legs...:D
 
screw the gig I say. Bring the sling part of the hawaiin sling spear and save weight! Catch the frogs with your hands and save the spear for the fish!



:this post neither is for or against the spearing of poor cute defenseless frogs: :P
 
If you just have to have one, you can get a piece of piano wire from a hobby shop, about the diameter of clotheshanger material and cut that into several sections with a Dremel cut-off wheel. Grind a point on them and then take the cut-off wheel and cut barbs into it. All you need then is a long stick and two hose clamps from AutoZone and you can pack all of that into a smallish kit container.

Frogs are a real sucker for fly fishing flies. You just need a long stick for the rod and go down to a pond and hover the flies over their head, you will have a few frogs in no time. Found that one out by accident screwing around down by a stream one day back near the old neighborhood. 8-)
 
I haave a tutorial on making one from old tent poles and nails somewhere. I'll try and locate it to post.
 
I have a frog gig and a bigger one for fish (or small game). They are just the metal spear point, not the shaft. I figure I can cut a limb and attach the metal prongs with an "L" screw. I can also attach them to my hiking pole. Both are available at Bass Pro Shops. Never tried 'em tho but seems like a useful item.
 
I need to get me one of them sling spears. The local dive shop(I know, weird for missouri) has em, and really nice gold annodized fish spears and an assortment of tips. The 6ft gold annod spears are like 20 bones, and the tips are 5-6 bucks....
 
I spear frogs with a spear that I make myself. Of course, you can get them at just about any retailer the size of Target. (Meijer, Wal*Mart, k-mart, BPS, Cabelas, Gander, DSG, etc.)
 
The easiest/most productive way to harvest them is from the water at night. Scanning the bank with some sort of light until you pick out their eyes. If you keep the light in their eyes, nine times out of ten you can get in range to gig them. We can usually get a few dozen in couple of hours. Here it's legal to take them during the day with a .22, though they are not nearly as active. You can walk the bank, but it's more difficult to get up on them. You find they have eaten all sorts of things when you clean them. I gigged one once that had another frog in it's mouth, legs sticking out, still alive. Be very careful with the poke poles, only draw when you're ready to stick something. It's not uncommon for folks to spear themselves with them. When drawn, they are easy to point where you don't want them, and they have some serious @ss behind them when you let em loose.
 
My friends and I used to spend one night each summer out gigging frogs in the local farm ponds. We used a gig on a pole about 6 feet long and one person would keep a flashlight shined in their eyes while the other snuck up and speared them. After we got about 20 or so we would quit, remove the legs and BBQ them the next night. Great fun.
 
The welded gigs with a socket work fine enough, but they take up a lot of room. I found a frog gig that has replaceable tines and bough a few of the tines. I carry one in my kit with a foam earplug over the point.

See http://www.sbtoutdoors.com/fish_spears.htm and scroll down to the "MOBLEY'S OLD-TIMER FROG GIG."

This is a good subject to study the construction of Native American artifacts. There are great examples of wood hooks, spears and harpoons that could be carved for catching small game. Check out the tip and barb shapes as well as the lashing arrangements. No doubt, they found out what worked!
 
Don Rearic said:
If you just have to have one, you can get a piece of piano wire from a hobby shop, about the diameter of clotheshanger material and cut that into several sections with a Dremel cut-off wheel. Grind a point on them and then take the cut-off wheel and cut barbs into it. All you need then is a long stick and two hose clamps from AutoZone and you can pack all of that into a smallish kit container.

Frogs are a real sucker for fly fishing flies. You just need a long stick for the rod and go down to a pond and hover the flies over their head, you will have a few frogs in no time. Found that one out by accident screwing around down by a stream one day back near the old neighborhood. 8-)
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My uncle has used fly fishing for years to catch frog's. He really like's to eat them.
 
Bullfrogs will eat anything. Cast a Texas rigged plastic worm on the bank near a bullfrog. He will hop over to it and use both hands to stuff it into his mouth. I have yet to see one not eat it.
 
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