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on your frog. This is another reason why you should keep working your frog all the way back to the boat. Never stop your retrieve early with a frog. You never know when a bass will want to hit it.
CHANGE IT UP
Now if the bite shuts down on your traditional style frog, you can pivot to two possible lures. The first is to stay the course with a topwater frog, but go to a different style, such as a popping frog. Popping frogs offer up a different action for the bass to see, and not just because these frogs
spit water when popped, but popping frogs can have a different action as they are retrieved back to the boat.
The other lure change-up you can do when the bass bite stops on a frog, is go to a swim jig. A swim jig can be cast on top of the vegetation, retrieved back, and then once it hits the edge of the vegetation, it can fall down the front of that vegetation. This can give a different look to the bass and cause them to inhale your jig as it falls off the matted vegetation and into the open water.
Frog mats can be quite dense and abrasive, so using a braided line is a must as it will provide a rock-solid hook set and not break when wrapped around heavy cover. I’ll spool
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