Chad Johnson's Freaky Frog
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Dally's Ozark Fly Fisher guide and Umpqua fly designer Chad Johnson ties his Freak Frog. (Materials List below)
The Freaky Frog is an awesome surface fly for largemouth and smallmouth bass: and if you fish froggy stillwaters in trout country don't be surprised that it works there as well.
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Video produced by Brian Wise: Fly Fishing the Ozarks flyfishingtheoz...
in conjunction with Dally's Ozark Fly Fisher, Cotter Arkansas. theozarkflyfish...
Materials List
Hook -- 8089 Size 2
Frog Foam -- Olive
Foam Ant Body -- Large Black
Sheet of 1/8" Tan Fly Foam
Silly Legs -- Hopper Yellow Perfectly Barred & Olive/ Black Flake
Eyes -- Hareline 5/16 Oval Pupil 3D -- Red/ Black Pupil
Prism SLF Dubbing-Olive- Multi -- Laminated Synthetic
Thread -- UTC 100 Olive GSP
Stainless Wire Weed Guard
.035 Lead Wire
I tied a dozen of these and tested them. WOW! First cast in weeds a huge bass hit and busted me leader, but the fly floated thank goodness. Caught many bass with these. I modified them a bit, but a great pattern.
This frog does some serious work in the evening after a rainstorm. Thanks for the great pattern.
Amazing work! Nice looking frog pattern!
Fantastic pattern thanks👌🏻
It ain't easy being green 🙂 Nice Tie
Cool frog man!
Thanks for the tie, I made a couple up and landed my first pike of the year, again thanks a lot!
Here we are 3 years further.. But these anti weed stainles bars Ive never seen before. They seem great.
"Always" used like 50/00 nylon for that. But a lot of miss/lost fish. The 50/00 seems often to strong strangly enough!!
The stainles in the vid. bend very souple/easy . And stiff enough to skip over weeds tough.
Thats one reaseon to love these yt tying vids.
Altough being 2016: Thanks
Great looking fly. I am going to have to tie them now. I really hate most foam flies. I don't know why really, just don't like them usually. You finally came up with one I like. Now I gotta buy that frog foam. Don't have it, but I bet a Sharpie would do the job. All the best and thanks for sharing. Sean
That s*** is freaking awesome. I'm tying that for sure. Here fishy fishy!
What a cracking good fly!!! One question please, what was that tool you used to whip finish/ tie off the fly at the end? Cheers Dave in Australia
That things unreal...great fly!
Thanks for all the wonderful comments. Fish on
Wicked fly mate....not to self.....must hit the vise!
Thanks!!!
i've been fishing my whole life and i've never asked this question, but always wondered it. If the fish is only seeing the bottom of the fly, or conventional top water lure, why put all the sweet frog pattern foam on top and leave the bottom like a squiggily foam mess? i bet that fly gets bit like crazy, but honestly, they don't see that nice foam on top of the lure, correct? wouldn't it be better to use cheap green foam in a squiggley/whatever finish on top, with a very detailed belly? awesome fly, Steve! looks delicious
True, but it's more important to catch the fisherman than the fish, because that means money. You're smart
esta muy buena ya la estoy haciendo para probar con lad hoplias malabaricus , gracias por tu aporte ....
Que magnifico Atado!!!
So awesome love it.
Daft question but here goes, does this swim upside down then?Excellent tying I'm going to try this one.
Awesome pattern...are the tan strip 1/2" wide? And how wide is the body foam? Thanks!
+Brent Frerck Sorry it took a while to get back with you, my account was messed up.
Cut ¼” wide strip of Tan Fly Foam. Cut 5/8” wide Frog Foam.
Impresionante
never mind just saw material list
I'm curious about your whip finish tool, or half hitch tool. Looks like it works well, but have not seen them in the fly shop.
Great tie by the way!!
It's a custom job Chad had made by his father. We are still working on getting them in production
Lol its a uv glue cap...
Очень круто!
Hallo it is possible to buy ? if yes where ? thanks
what size hook is used in the video?
where do you get the weed guards?
Wicked frog
Класс! 👍🤝🇰🇿
What size hook?
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Great frog, only one problem with the video... around the 3 minute mark, you hold up something that says laminated... laminated what???
this is the reason I prefer people who speak in their tying vids. I don't have to guess what they're using
+Wayne Miller You don't have to guess. If you care to click the show more button below the video, you can see the whole material list itemized, one by one.The material in question was Olive Prism Dub ......
I'm new to TH-cam. I didn't notice a show more button
As soon as you started to use it .....it is obvious ; ) .....I tie frog patterns , but this is the best I have ever seen .....great tie ! would like to see some pics of the beast you catch with it !! have fun and thanks for the lesson !
Great fly, bad music