My yard pond is filled with frogs on the shallow end. While walking the pup its nothing to count 50-60 frogs easy. Is there a use for them? Are they edible for frogs legs? Poor pic quality but you can still make out more than a few.
Got frogs? Frog legs?
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We used to go frog gigging when I was a kid. Bullfrog legs are good eating. Those look mostly like toads, though. Wait until mid summer, and if they are bullfrogs see if you can stick a few.
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There's no regulation on size for harvesting and no open season. You don't even need a permit unless you plan to collect more than 25 and then all you need is a collection permit that 5 bucks.
From NCWRC:
"The bullfrog is classified as a nongame species with no open season. It is unlawful for any person to take, or have in possession, any nongame mammal or bird unless that person has a collection license or is collecting fewer than 5 reptiles or fewer than 25 amphibians that are not endangered, threatened, or special concerned species."
My experience with frog legs is that they are better after they have been frozen. I would gig or grab about 2,000 pig frogs or bull frogs every year for several years while in school in Florida. A fellow student and I collected frogs every Thursday for 13 months for a study of frog reproduction. We kept the legs for eating and the front portions for dissection and data gathering. That study alone brought in right at 900 pig frogs from one lake. I also went quite frequently with some LEO friends of mine who had access to some private ponds. I was cooking some frogs from the previous week while one of my buddies was cleaning the fresh frogs. I also cooked up a batch of the fresh ones that proved to be a little chewy. I dearly love a nice plate of fried frog legs.
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My grandma would rub them with salt, pepper, and garlic. Roll’em in a cornflower mix and fry them up. They were so darn good!
Ate tons of them. Bull frogs get giant in the Sierras. We had a gorgeous large 10-15 acre natural fed pond nearby.
Gigs at night with a spot light out of a John boat up in the tully pads. Or .177 pellets to back of head. Good shot leaves them floating.
Knife and a set of pliers to skin. Cornmeal/spices and hot oil!
Good stuff. Got huge largemouth out of the same pond.
Gigs at night with a spot light out of a John boat up in the tully pads. Or .177 pellets to back of head. Good shot leaves them floating.
Knife and a set of pliers to skin. Cornmeal/spices and hot oil!
Good stuff. Got huge largemouth out of the same pond.
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I've gigged a metric ton of bullfrogs and can verify that they are indeed delicious. Late summer is when the population always seemed highest, and size was largest. Not speaking from experience or anything........... but sneaking into golf course ponds can land you some absolute monsters.
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I relocated over 30 turtles out of my pond 2 years ago so I don't have that problem anymore
Mine are on a creek so I don't have that option. But when I had a pond with the same issue I "relocated" the crap out of them.
Those look more like toads in that shallow end of your pond. I actually saw "fresh" frog legs for sale the other day at my local Food Lion. They looked really good until I read the label that said they had been raised in China. 