Top Buzz Toads for Big Bass: Pro Picks You Can Buy at Tackle Warehouse
While topwater frogging seems to continually gain in popularity (at least when people aren’t looking at a screen and pinging a minnow), the buzz toad seems to be retreating. Sure, it’s a top choice for many if not most pros as a skirt replacement on a buzzbait, but it doesn’t seem like people throw one solo anymore.
That’s a mistake, because they still enable you to cover more water than a traditional hollow frog and call fish from a distance. Furthermore, you can fish them over and across thicker cover than a buzzbait.
As the grass gets thicker in your region this year, consider the following pro advice about how, where and when to fish them:
Jacob Wall
Mike Iaconelli
Randy Blaukat
Matt Becker
Matt Stefan
Brandon Cobb
Keep Your Toad Selection Simple
I’ve spent a lot of time over the years fishing a toad, including some that are now discontinued, but I haven’t tried all of them. Nevertheless, I can definitely attest that the following options produce explosive bites from big fish:
I keep my colors simple – black, white and sometimes watermelon or green pumpkin with a pearl belly. That’s not saying that others won’t work, but depending on water clarity and the thickness of the cover, those are proven winners.
Urchin baits are all the rage, but the dice that came before them still produce bass — especially in smallmouth country and when finesse is the name of the game.