You bet.Got to be fresh.Catch them big bull frogs, cut the legs off and put them on ice.Once home skin them , put them in a cake pan with about 1/4" of red wine.Cook at about 350 until wine is all gone.
We use a long cane pole. Years ago they came in carpet roles. Put a frog gig on the end and about 10 feet of fishing line with a treble hoof that had a piece of red felt on it. If the frog was close enough we gigged it. If not,we would unwind the fishing line and drop they took in front of the frog .Most of the time they would take it
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
My grandmother would fry them in her old house iron skillet for us when we caught em as kids. Good times.
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I've never had a "fishy" two (can't say "one" as they come in pairs.) Lightly breaded and fried, they're very mild, tender, and delicious. The old "tastes like chicken" line almost applies here, but you'd know it isn't poultry.
Love them, but have not had any for years. Never bought frozen ones at the store, but I suspect they are good as well.
Guy I worked with had a small airboat. Swampy public area about 15 miles from here. Too weedy and full of cattails to fish much, so it was seldom used. Spot light and gigs, on a good night we would get over 100 big bullfrogs. Get half drunk and go to his shed to clean them at 3:00 AM. Good times!
Had been 20 years since I was at the swamp. Drove past last summer while in the area. No doubt frogs are still there, but it is so over grown you could not even get around with an airboat anymore.
Had them first as a kid in Montreal at a French place. Lots of garlic and wine: good. Hosted an invasive species dinner here a few years ago. We gigged up a bunch of bullfrogs, breaded and fried the legs. Wasn't overly impressed..
Love them. Used to go frog gigging as a teen, and later on after I got married. My wife cooked them up pretty good. To really do good at frog gigging you need clean pond banks where you can see them. Most of the ponds I used to find frogs in are so grown up that you can't see the frogs. The last time I went gigging was probably 35-40 years ago. Gigged 3 snakes before we saw any frogs, and that was enough gigging for me.
There was a Chinese restaurant here that used to serve frog legs on their buffet. They were pretty good eating.
I've never had a "fishy" two (can't say "one" as they come in pairs.) Lightly breaded and fried, they're very mild, tender, and delicious. The old "tastes like chicken" line almost applies here, but you'd know it isn't poultry.
Yep. Go to a Chinese Buffet that has them. Might get one serving, might not. They aren't good enough, or bad enough, to really GAS about.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
I really like frog legs,I have eat a ton of them since I was a kid 50 plus years ago.
Gigged them,And Caught them with our hands by sitting in front of a boat and shining a light then have the person Paddling the boat (or running the trolling motor )run the boat up on the frog and snatch the frog from the bank after pushing the frog into the mud of the bank(be carefull if you try this as sometime there is a snake trying to get to the frog too,and sometimes it is a cottonmouth instead of just a Harmless watersnake.Also all snakes will come to a light.
Also eat the Frog Backs, not as much eating as the legs But still great tasting.
Haven’t had them in years either. Haven’t seen enough fogs big enough to have them in years either. We’d mix lawry’s seasoning or salt and pepper in flower then fry them.
There was a buffet restaurant in Minnesota that you paid by what you wanted to eat if you paid the highest price you got frog legs deep-fried. Bad boy did we knock the bottom out of them frogs..
