Who Says 2 Good Flashlights Won't Put Food On The Table

Cool.

How do you catch them? Do you need to make a trap, or just use your hands?

Do you eat the entire frog, or just the legs only part.

Ive never had them before so I have no idea, but Ive heard about it and see them at the store sometimes.

Far more fun eating the one’s you catch! Good job ILF!

I like them, but unfortunately they are not popular around here, in other parts of Spain they are, I have had them fried, and also in a bit spicy homemade tomato sauce, really nice.

It might look extrange, but the last time I had them was in Uk visiting a client, they were included in a seafood dish.

Continuing with things many might find a bit disgusting, I also like land snails, they are really nice mostly for the sauce made for them, they are not much tasty, like crayfish they are served normally in the same sauce made with bacon, nutmeg, cayenne pepper, onions, dried red peppers and some other ingredients I cannot remember now, they are not slimmy, they are kept for about a month bathing them with water and salt every week.

You take a frog gig like this one below and attach it by bolt and nut to a wooden pole about 6 to 8 ft long.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-TINE-FROG-FISHING-GIG-FORK-SPEAR-7-/200808384931?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec11cc9a3

You then go to a pond, creek, lake or any water area and shine the banks with a bright light that has some useable spill. The light blinds them so they stay put so you can get close enough to gig them. I typically aim right behind the head or sometimes middle of the back if they are sitting on a larger rock. They will typically sit at the waters edge on the bank. They prefer dirt banks but will sit gravel banks as well as rocks. It just depends on what the creek or pond has which is mostly where I go around these parts. I have gigged quite a few this year.

Oh and typically the bigger the frog the smarter and wiser it will be. Any little noise will send the big boys in the water well before you get close enough to try and gig them. But if they do jump, you can usually wait about 5-10 min and it will be back normally in about the exact same spot or close to it. I have seen frogs return to the exact same spot several times. Last nite I gigged a frog and there was another close by that caught me by surprise. I just got my light on him and dropped my gig to the ground about 15 ft away from him, so I could turn my gig in the ready position to gig in and the vibration from the ground sent the frog in the water. I later went back and got him. He was in about the same vicinity. A very wise frog, but not wise enough with a bright light in his eyes. Without a light in their eyes, frogs have tremendous vision. They rely on vision and ears to allow them to escape predators to grow big. So that’s why a big frog is the smart one. They know what it takes to survive.

That’s not frog at the Chinese buffet: http://catrecipes.com/pekingmoon.html

Since I’ve been in China, I’ve yet to eat some frog. I am really wondering what it tastes like….

If you could post a recipe I’d be forever grateful haha! I can probably get the frogs probably cut and prepared at the nearby market, but I would like to know what goes good with them :slight_smile:

I just always fry the frogs I get in vegetable oil. After I clean them I let them soak in salt water for usually overnite. I then dip each frog right out of the salt water and into some cornmeal breading mix with spices. The best mix I have found is Andy’s. I use Louisiana brand mix sometimes as well, but Andy’s is the best in my mind.


Anyone of those will work great. They also make a cajun style.

http://andysseasoning.com/andys-products

This is the truth. It’s kind of ironic but a lot of traditional asian, esp chinese dishes are best cooked in Australia or even the US where the ingredients still exist in the wild. The pollution and over-catching in china is so bad that non-farm critters are not just available for purchase.

I ate at a local restaurant here that had a seafood buffet on Friday evenings with frog legs. Well all I will say is that they sucked and leave it at that. I couldn’t even eat them that’s how bad they tasted. They were like bland with no taste. The ones I get in the wild and fix are perfect. I ate all of the frogs I got already. Dang they were good. I love em.

lol. +100

So you harpoon them? Then what?

What are hushpuppies ?
Hushpuppies are shoes here.

To all froggers: Do you find them tastier then fish, easier then fishing or both?

I then put them on a metal clip fish stringer.

But I didn’t cook any hushpuppies this time. I got lazy.

I would feel good about eating frog’s legs with your sister, LOL. (Just a joke)…

I remember when I was a kid, we went to the local ponds and got frogs for my grandmother. She loved frogs legs. I did not, but I had to go kill them and clean them. It tastes like chicken, it ALL tastes like chicken. A girl told me that once (& she was wrong!)...

I killed them with a pellet gun, during the daytime (early morning or late evening). One shot in the head, hit or miss. I don't kill anything any more. Now I try to just watch and enjoy wildlife...

They are just a different textured meat than fish. I would say it depends on how good the fish is. But really fish and frog go great together.

Shooting frogs with a pellet gun or 22 will work, but it’s not as safe as gigging them nor as effective due to the frogs that jump in after you make perfect head shot. Gigging them they stay put until you take them off the gig.

I would love to try wild ones. To me. Frog is like chicken, but smoother, as long as its not overcooked. Actually in Chinese they’re literally called chicken of the field.