BUzz oN
The party’s on the water... B.Y.O.B. Bring Your Own Buzz; Bobby brings the tips.
By Jody Only
F
or renowned delta angler Bobby Barrack,
creating his namesake Bobby’s Perfect
Frog was only the start of the Frog
Master’s creativity and after twenty years of “playing around” with a hollow-belly frog,
some bailing wire and a prop lifted off another bait,
a “homegrown” buzz frog became the staple for
Barrack and some of his cousins as they 4- wheeled
frogs over lily pads, when fishing texas waters.
remembering the handmade
amphibious buzzer they brought to life
in the nineties sparked a new buzz... a
Perfect Buzz; and with all the buzz on the
Perfect Buzz and all the Perfect Buzzes
on the boats, Barrack shared his bag of
tricks on the
basics of
workin’ the
Buzz.
ARE YOU EQUIPPED?
If you’re ready to get your Buzz on, you need the right stuff.
Barrack busts out his Falcon Perfect Frog rod to get the job done. “it is 7’10” of pure horsepower,” he exclaimed and why wouldn’t it be? it was designed by the Frog Master, himself for pulling five to ten pound frog fish right out of the muck. like his Falcon rod, the best rod for the job will have the power to pull the bass away from heavy cover and a soft tip for long haul casts or precision pitches into perfect bass holes.
The wrong reel is a buzzkiller.
a high speed reel is a must for max inches of line
retrieve per crank, a necessity when you
and the big bass go face-to-
face, heading for each other.
Barrack explains, “You have
to have a 7.0:1 gear ratio reel.
it is very important, when
Photo by Jody Only
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