How do you catch a bullfrog?

GubNi said:
It's been mentioned about 3 times... Pool shock or bleach. If you don't the mosquitoes will be lethal soon.
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Yep, I am very worried about that. The landlord is considering putting a cover on the pool. If not, I'm going to investigate bleach etc like everyone is suggesting. I don't know anything about maintaining a pool.
 
I had two bullfrogs in our pool last week. I used the net approach. It took a lot of tries but I finally wore the frogs out enough, caught them in the deep end. Placed (yeh right) them in the neighbors yard to hop to another pool. Only one returned. Repeated the process. Chem shocked the pool and I haven't seen it since.
I saw one frog in our skimmer resting (while pump was off). If your water is up to the skimmer, try blocking the water side with a board and try to catch it in the skimmer.
You could also try the venus fly trap plant that looks like a lily pad. :)
Good luck without draining and cleaning.
 
dude that frog is the least of your soon to be ordeal! em air skeeters are going to carry you off from that mess. ever heard of west nile, malaria, ect. your local gov't should shut that down easy enough as a health risk. hell throw some used tires over that way and you got a complete eco system going. I owned a inground concrete pool for 8 yrs, my mom has had one for 12. Shock is just concentrated granular or liquid chlorine, sodium bicarb is baking sodium other than algeacide these are the chemicals put into pools all the time. Some now treat with salt and speacial filters for chlorine sensitive people. Go buy 3 gals. of bleach (cheap stuff is just fine) I promish no damage to the liner will occur and it may put a dent in the algea and run off the frogs. Will greatly depend on the PH and current water circulation, but I promise it want harm the pool.
 
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Summer is approaching, you have a pool that needs a little maintenance (like most pools after the winter), get it set up for use! Hook the pump up, circulate the water, dump a few gallons of bleach, see what happens. Run to Leslies Pool Store (behind Blockbuster, near Target in K-ville), grab a free water sample bottle and a basic $10 test kit (ph and chlorine). If the chlorine is a lil low, dump more bleach in. Measure the pool dimensions including depth so the pool store can calculate how many gallons your pool holds. Bring a sample back, they will test it on the spot, give you a printout showing what levels you're at, the recommended levels, and how much of each chemical you need. Don't buy anything, read the printout and do a little net research. Like said above most pool chemicals are just household chemicals (bleach, borax, baking soda), with the exception of stabilizer/conditioner (cyanuric acid), which can be ordered cheaper online. Once you'll get it dialed in, you'll have a pool to enjoy...and the frog might even go away.
Best part is, being a rental you plan on leaving in the fall/winter...you get to walk away from it, and get the experience of pool 'ownership' that will be useful for deciding if/what kind of pool to build at your permanent house.
 
You haven't seen my wife because she just had to have a cervical fusion x2 levels....she is sitting at home in pain with bolts and plates in her neck....the fusion she had never healed in 2003...the neurosurgeon said that if she didnt have it redone she risks becoming a quad. she will never be able to have the kind of fun we take for granted. how many times has my wife welcomed you into our home, JT, and given you a home cooked meal...not cool
 
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drkelly said:
You haven't seen my wife because she just had to have a cervical fusion x2 levels....she is sitting at home in pain with bolts and plates in her neck....the fusion she had never healed in 2003...the neurosurgeon said that if she didnt have it redone she risks becoming a quad. she will never be able to have the kind of fun we take for granted.
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the pool could be very therapeutic for her, maybe not at this moment but in the near future.
 
drkelly said:
You haven't seen my wife because she just had to have a cervical fusion x2 levels....she is sitting at home in pain with bolts and plates in her neck....the fusion she had never healed in 2003...the neurosurgeon said that if she didnt have it redone she risks becoming a quad. she will never be able to have the kind of fun we take for granted. how many times has my wife welcomed you into our home, JT, and given you a home cooked meal...not cool
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Come on DK. Loosen up. We're just poking fun.
 
the suppressor for my .308 will be here in august, i'll come by and take him out for you.

a pellet gun or even a .22 wouldnt work unless you hit them in the head. me and a buddy used to spotlight them and the .22 wouldnt kill them if you hit them in the body. i'd try some poison or ask the landlord to do something about it. if you complain enough, he'll have to do something.

bleach may be a good idea too, it would also help skeeters from laying eggs in there.
 
88 BII said:
the suppressor for my .308 will be here in august, i'll come by and take him out for you.

a pellet gun or even a .22 wouldnt work unless you hit them in the head. me and a buddy used to spotlight them and the .22 wouldnt kill them if you hit them in the body. i'd try some poison or ask the landlord to do something about it. if you complain enough, he'll have to do something.

bleach may be a good idea too, it would also help skeeters from laying eggs in there.
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A .22 will kill a frog, just not instantly w/o a headshot like lot's of small critters. That's why you gig frogs w a pronged/barbed gig, then quickly grab them and put them in a sack before they muscle themselves off the gig. They are great eating IMO and shooting them to try to kill/eat them seems wastefull to me. The trick/skill is quietly getting close enough to reach and accurately gig them, usually from a jonboat or wading. The larger, older frogs can be almost impossible to gig cause they seem to know they're in danger and submerge or hop into the water before your close enough to gig them. I hope your joking about shooting a .308 at frogs or water or at night, the Game Warden/ Sheriff wo'nt like that at all and shooting any cal. rifle at water is dangerous downrange :shaking:
 
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......and you need a really sharp gig for some of the smart big uns b/c they will sit on a floating lily pad and when you gig him he will just be pushed under the water, but grampa used to use an old remington 514 .22 and shoot them from across the water then walk around and pick them up, he said if you shoot down on them the will jump in?? old folks just know this stuff, i'm with mommucked tho i prefer a gig
 
Moved in a rental once where pool was so bad it had trees growing out of it. And the bull frogs were rediculous. I rented a trash pump for like $30 and we caught like 30 HUGE toads that we turned loose in local pond. I went all out with new liner / skimmer / pump and enjoyed a pool for a few years. Was way too much work / time for me for I took up an expensive time consuming hobby of 4x4's.:rockon: I took a loss to the landlord and bought a house... WITHOUT a pool. I know now I'm not a pool buff but a hot tub is in my future.
 
As for everyone mentioning the nuissances, how's a stagnent swimming pool any different than a local farm pond??? Like why / how would the health department do anything about it??? Not flaming, just stupid and overlooking something I guess???
 
6BangBronk said:
As for everyone mentioning the nuissances, how's a stagnent swimming pool any different than a local farm pond??? Like why / how would the health department do anything about it??? Not flaming, just stupid and overlooking something I guess???
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Local farm pond is
a) in a rural environemnt
b) not a sealed bottom and sides
c) not a sharp drop off...(toddler has to wade 3-4' to be over head vs fall in)
 
That is a huge frog. If you have the stomach for it you might be able to take a fishing pole with a small jig body and unweighted hook and you could probably catch him like a fish.
 
Ron said:
Local farm pond is
a) in a rural environemnt
b) not a sealed bottom and sides
c) not a sharp drop off...(toddler has to wade 3-4' to be over head vs fall in)
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What's A or C got to do with health dept? What would either have to do with it being stagnent or clean? I thought every pool had to have a fence to begin with?

I guess the sealed part is the answer I was looking for??? Still not flaming but still feel stupid... Was just too many H-D responses to not question and learn something here.
 
6BangBronk said:
Moved in a rental once where pool was so bad it had trees growing out of it. And the bull frogs were rediculous. I rented a trash pump for like $30 and we caught like 30 HUGE toads that we turned loose in local pond. I went all out with new liner / skimmer / pump and enjoyed a pool for a few years. Was way too much work / time for me for I took up an expensive time consuming hobby of 4x4's.:rockon: I took a loss to the landlord and bought a house... WITHOUT a pool. I know now I'm not a pool buff but a hot tub is in my future.
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Frogs and Toads are 2 different animals. The latter only requires water to lay it's eggs. Frogs have webbed toes for swimming and slimy skin and need a watersource or wet mud to stay alive, toads have no webbed feet and get moisture from rain and dew absorbed through their skin.
 
6BangBronk said:
As for everyone mentioning the nuissances, how's a stagnent swimming pool any different than a local farm pond??? Like why / how would the health department do anything about it??? Not flaming, just stupid and overlooking something I guess???
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i would think the biggest difference would be that a pond supports wildlife and is fed by a natural source (spring,steam, ect) and a pool is not.

most frogs live in water, toads live on land. toads can be caught by anyone and anything as they are built for walking not hopping. frogs are much faster and more agile, a frog can jump up to 20 times it's body length.
 
transman731 said:
i would think the biggest difference would be that a pond supports wildlife and is fed by a natural source (spring,steam, ect) and a pool is not.

most frogs live in water, toads live on land. toads can be caught by anyone and anything as they are built for walking not hopping. frogs are much faster and more agile, a frog can jump up to 20 times it's body length.
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All so true! The word toad never should have been introduced in this thread by me. It's the mighty "bullfrog" we're after.
 
transman731 said:
a frog can jump up to 20 times it's body length.
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This a estimation or fact? I've never measured a frog, then its jump and did the math. I feel like its more than 20, I've seen a frogs jump a million times and I'm still like 'damn that was like 10 feet'. But maybe I'm thinking his length sitting/squatted, full leap length times 20 would seem accurate.
 
tireburner1975 said:
This a estimation or fact? I've never measured a frog, then its jump and did the math. I feel like its more than 20, I've seen a frogs jump a million times and I'm still like 'damn that was like 10 feet'. But maybe I'm thinking his length sitting/squatted, full leap length times 20 would seem accurate.
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i think they base it on it's extended length. i am not a frog expert(or do i claim to be one), it just so happens that i like frogs (5 frog tattoos,but no toads). if daniel lived closer i would go over there and use my "frog fu" to coax him out of the pool:rolleyes:
 
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