7 Frog Fishing Tips to Catch More Fall Bass in Emergent Grass

How do you find bass in lakes loaded to the brim in grass? Lake Guntersville, Okeechobee, Rayburn, and thousands of north country lakes spread bass out across thousands of acres of prime real estate. You need the right bait and a strategy. Wired2Fish's Ryan DeChaine explains how to identify productive areas with the naked eye and fish them fast with hollow body frogs. Although this video discusses emergent grass such as tulles and wild rice, the same points are applicable in all grass lakes with vegetation that reaches the surface.
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Here are DeChaine's steps to finding and catching bass from emergent grass during the fall months:
1. Focus on isolated and irregular grass beds with a mixture of emergent and submergent grass. Areas such as this concentrate bass in manageable sized areas, this high-percentage spots to cast.
2. Use a conventional holly body frog. A hollow body frog is the most weedless bait available, and a traditional (pointed nose) hollow body frog slides through cover with greater ease than the popping frog variety. You can fish faster and cleaner, eliminating water and contacting bass more quickly.
3. Make Long Casts. Covering water is the name of the game. Long casts reduce spooking in shallow water while quickly eliminating unproductive water.
4. Use long, heavy power rods. Long rods support max casting distances to reach isolated spots, give you the leverage for strong hooksets and make it easier to fight bass in demanding cover.
5. High stick when fishing frogs. "Hight sticking" gives bass time to eat the bait and turn away from you before setting the hook -- thus increasing hooking percentages. It also helps keep your braided mainline clear from getting caught up in the cover.
6. Fish a strong mid-sized braid. 40- or 50-pound braided line provides the best combination of strength and lightness to avoid getting caught up in the grass on long casts.
7. Choose a frog color that matches your forage, not necessarily a frog. Let the forage dictate the frog color than choose accordingly. Keep in mind that the frog undersize is what the bass sees, while a high-visibility topside helps you maintain visual contact with the lure.
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[@fishwithoutfear8970]

DeChaine has to be one of the top instructors I've ever listened to in regards to bass fishing. Just a class act. Amazing video.

[@bassandgrass567]

You guys posting these northern videos makes my day!!! Please put together a playlist of your awesome northern vids because KZbin only lets me scroll a couple of years down and they are very difficult to find... awesome content!

[@Wired2Fish]

That's a great playlist idea EG Outdoors! We may consider doing something like this for the core bass fishing regions of the country.

[@bassandgrass567]

Wired2Fish you definitely should! The bass in the north act so much different than other regions of the country and it would be awesome to have all the resources in one place. This is the best bass fishing channel on yt so thank you guys!

[@erniesanders3724]

Great tips. Love Frog Fishing. Thanks from Western Kentucky.

[@Wired2Fish]

Thanks for watching Ernie. May your fall be filled with explosive topwater action!

[@GT_Racer347]

I'm definitely going to try that this fall!

[@Wired2Fish]

Good luck with it! Thanks for watching Nixy J Morales. -Ryan

[@timstephenson8752]

Same frog I fish no matter where I'm fishin,excellent choice of color!

[@Wired2Fish]

You got that right!

[@countryfriedfishing]

I use a H Anura from sixgillfishing for frogging. It’s 7’5” and slams on hooksets. I punch,frog and big jig on it.

[@gregc2621]

K

[@outside1234]

Great video thank you

[@Wired2Fish]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jesseboyden3119]

I love the all black lowe

[@gregc2621]

Huh?

[@jamesbarron1202]

Will that rice survive after water drawdown and blazing Texas summers. My pond fluctuates about 7' every year and I wanted to plant it on my flats. If it seeds before June it may reseed before it's on dry land.

[@Wired2Fish]

Hi James, from what I understand, wild rice is susceptible to dying or doing poorly when there are large fluctuations in water level. That said, I'm no expert. -Ryan

[@glenndaugherity6187]

Just wanna say I love your videos but why can’t you do a double screen so we can see the frog get hit instead of always just seeing the guy set the hook.

[@Wired2Fish]

Fair enough question. We were fun fishing, rolling looping on GoPros for those fish catches (filmed on the weekend). Used them as b-roll to support the teaching points. We often use a camera operator but don't always have the luxury of a guy zoomed in and following a topwater bait.

[@tc3724]

F****** go to school with this guy 10 minute video I've already learned more s*** than any other pro has taught me in an hour.

[@matthewpriestley7202]

I saw that it didn’t look like you were “walking” the frog. Is it really necessary to walk ?

[@r.barefoot8386]

Agreed. You really don’t need to walk it, but it’s good to know how. Like any lure, mastering different retrieve styles adds to the versatility of the bait. Sometimes they’re in the mood for a walking frog, other days they’re not. Good thing is you can work a frog many different ways.

[@Wired2Fish]

Hi Matthew, the boys covered this one well. I do like a side-to-side walking the dog action to my frog, particularly when fishing it through holes, but there isn't a need to strive for it throughout the entire retrieve. Here's my basic criteria: 1) walking a frog slows your retrieve speed so I don't work on achieving it when I'm trying to cover water and breakdown a lake as quickly as possible. 2) I will work on walking the frog around high-percentage spots (weed clumps, isolated wood, docks, holes in grass, misc.) as it's a proven fish-catching action.

[@gregc2621]

@@r.barefoot8386 man, so many youtube pros! You guys must be watching a lot of googan squad videos!

[@nflisrigged1395]

Same tips they've all said I buy every frog and still never bite

[@t1hawver]

Any idea on water temp?

[@Wired2Fish]

Yes sir, the water temp as 68-degrees on this day.

[@GYPSY400]

Second

[@levibarrett4174]

First