Well, like my signature says: if it swims and eats, it will eat a fly. Turns out that if it hops it will eat a fly, too.


I was out at the pond the other day, and nothing much was going on fish wise, so why not? I saw this guy sitting out on the duckweed and thought if nothing else I could use him as a practice target. I was putting them pretty close, and after about a half dozen casts he must have thought "well, why not, indeed" and grabbed my fly. Quite a tussle ensued on my little four weight Scott. The hook was barbless, and hooked firmly in the jaw rather than the tongue so the frog was landed and released with no damage to soft tissues (barbs can tear their sensitive tongues, leaving it hard for them to feed). Seemed like fun so I repeated the trick with a few others, finding that the most ferocious attacks on my fly came when I switched to a small popper (also barbless) colored like another, smaller frog. The little cannibals!