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I've spent the last couple of evening in the swamp, catching tasty little channel cats and gigging bullfrogs. Last summer I posted some pics of some legs ready to cook and got some questions on cleaning them. Frogs are probably one of the easiest sources of protein in the swamp to acquire. You can find them day or night, hanging around the edges of water. All you need is some sort of gig. If you have a source of light, even a pocket flashlight, they are easy to stick at night.
It only takes a couple these size to have a decent meal:
Just cut along the "waistline."
Then just pull his pants off.
Cut through the joint at the thigh and foot. That's it.
You can also remove the front legs the same way.
There is a good bit of meat on a decent sized frog.
Sometimes if you gig them in the stomach, they will want to pull apart rather than skin. Just make a single cut on the back side above the hip joint. Just peel from there and the skin will peel down the leg.
The rest of the frog makes good bait for all sorts of other critters. Turtles, catfish, little gators, and crawfish can all be lured or trapped using the left overs.
These little catfish hang in the same moving water that bigger frogs like to sit by at night.
It only takes a couple these size to have a decent meal:
Just cut along the "waistline."
Then just pull his pants off.
Cut through the joint at the thigh and foot. That's it.
You can also remove the front legs the same way.
There is a good bit of meat on a decent sized frog.
Sometimes if you gig them in the stomach, they will want to pull apart rather than skin. Just make a single cut on the back side above the hip joint. Just peel from there and the skin will peel down the leg.
The rest of the frog makes good bait for all sorts of other critters. Turtles, catfish, little gators, and crawfish can all be lured or trapped using the left overs.
These little catfish hang in the same moving water that bigger frogs like to sit by at night.
