Skin a frog (dead critter content)

Awesome post! Thank you for sharing with everyone.

Should have shown a picture of some some of em cooked up on your plate! looks delicious.
 
Will do Rez, I haven't cooked em yet. I'm going fishing tomorrow to catch some more cats, and cooking it all this weekend.
 
Great post! We love frog's legs and look forward to the season every year. Season opened here July 1, but flooding has prevented us from getting into our usual marshes so far; hoping it will recede soon.

Usually the kids gig them while I shoot mine with my bow. We can take up to 8 per person per day. We have a tree in the back yard with a metal hook I fashioned screwed into it dedicated to the cleaning. I just hang 'em through the mouth and head on the hook for a swift, clean death, a few quick slices with a sharp knife around the hips like you show and pull the "socks" down. Takes about 30 seconds per frog once you get going. We love to grill them in a clamp style fish basket.
 
I hope ya'll get to go soon ejes. :thumbup: We don't have a season or bag limit here. You don't even have to have a fishing or hunting license. You can shoot them during daylight with a .22, but I haven't ever tried to get them with the bow. They are good grilled, I baste them with some olive oil and sprinkle some Old Bay or creole seasoning on them. The smaller ones are tasty saute'd, but I really like them fried.
 
my family used to go to lake huron in the summer and stay at a friends cabin about 1/4 mile from the lake. there was a small creek running through the property and a bridge going over it. i used to catch big ones on a line and red piece of yarn. i never ate any but it was fun catching paper plate size frogs. a buddy has a lake and several ponds on his property that are probably loaded with frogs. i think i'll ask him if he likes frog legs :D
 
Thats exactly how I do frogs and catfish. Some guys I seen chop the head off first, but it makes em much easier to skin if the head is left on to hold on to. Catfish are pretty tuff. I usually knock the sh&* out of them with the spine of a chete before I start cutting. They can mess you up with those fins if youre not carefull.

I havent made it out with my gig yet this year, but I am going out this weekend to gig, and catfish...
 
ejes said:
I just hang 'em through the mouth and head on the hook for a swift, clean death, a few quick slices with a sharp knife around the hips like you show and pull the "socks" down.
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Is it really a "quick, clean death" if you wait until you get home to kill them? I'm in no way against hunting, but I don't like to see anything suffer needlessly.

Is there a quick, effective way to kill frogs if this is something I ever decide to try? This is directed at anyone, not just you. (And please don't feel like I'm calling you out, because while I am, it's more in the spirit of understanding and not accusation.)
 
Smacking them in the head, either with something or against something, is the quickest, surest way I know of. They are incredibly tough creatures. I do it because even when you think they are done, they will jump out of whatever you are keeping them in. I also clobber catfish like J Williams before skinning them. Better for you and them.
 
Duzzy said:
Is it really a "quick, clean death" if you wait until you get home to kill them? I'm in no way against hunting, but I don't like to see anything suffer needlessly.

Is there a quick, effective way to kill frogs if this is something I ever decide to try? This is directed at anyone, not just you. (And please don't feel like I'm calling you out, because while I am, it's more in the spirit of understanding and not accusation.)
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Frogs are a lot like fish and craw-fish in my book. They are best kept alive as close to dressing/eating as possible. All I shoot with the bow die then and there, but the ones we gig are alive until we get home because the type of gigs we use don't injure them any more than a hook injures a fish. They're called Mobley's Old Timer Frog Gig ( sold through SBT Outdoors) and you barely have to touch the frog to snag it because the tines spread like fingers and the barbs are extremely sharp. I keep them in a collapsible fish basket so they can stay alive and not escape. The "hook" on the tree through the brain stem is immediate near as I can tell.
 
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fishshooter said:
I hope ya'll get to go soon ejes. :thumbup: We don't have a season or bag limit here. You don't even have to have a fishing or hunting license. You can shoot them during daylight with a .22, but I haven't ever tried to get them with the bow. They are good grilled, I baste them with some olive oil and sprinkle some Old Bay or creole seasoning on them. The smaller ones are tasty saute'd, but I really like them fried.
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Man that sounds good!! Yeah, the laws here are strict here for some reason.
 
When I was a kid (in Louisiana) we would wear headlights and creep up on them in the boat while lighting them up and basically grab them. I wish we had "gig"'s. Would have made the process faster. And...we would avoid the occasional Water Moccasin dropping from the branches above.

Nice pics. Brings back a ton of memories. Havent done this since I was in high school. Im salivating, too...btw.
 
That is extremely cool - thanks for putting this tutorial together!

I want to see what they look like cooked cuz I'm getting hungry already... :cool:
 
Great post Fishshooter! I too have been curious about eating bullfrogs, but I'm not sure its legal to catch them here. Will have to check the fishing regs.
Catfish however are great! What do you find in the stomachs? the last time I ate some Bullheads they were full of nothing but crayfish.

BTW here is a fantastic catfish recipe I tried for the first time yesterday:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...ich-with-chipotle-lime-slaw-recipe/index.html

Bill
 
good stuff fishy!! we catfish a lot up and i have always had a time skinning them. bullfrogs / leapard frogs as well.. kick ass brotha!

--btw how do you cook your frog legs?
 
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