The Importance Of Bullfrog Hunting

Ever been bullfrog hunting? Whether I hand catch, gig, shoot, or fish for bullfrogs, I am going to need something to put them in. I try to hand catch as many as possible and then gig the rest, not killing them at the time. It is usually late at night or very early in the morning when I get done, and I usually do not feel like cleaning them right then. It is much easier to clean them the next morning when it is daylight. That being said, I take a cooler full of ice to put the bullfrogs in. It costs next to nothing and I do not have to worry about the frogs getting out of it. In the next few paragraphs, I will be telling how to clean the whole frog. When cleaning the bullfrogs, most people will just cut the back legs off and throw the rest away. That is a waste of good meat. Especially on larger frogs, there is quite a bit of meat on the upper …show more content…
I pull back the skin towards the back legs. I may have to rotate between pulling on the belly side and the back side. I pull the skin off to the front feet. I can either cut the feet off now, or wait until later. I usually wait so that I do not have to switch between the pliers and knife. Once I get the skin to the top of the back legs, there is a point where the skin is a little more difficult to get off. I alternate between the front and back. I work the skin a little at a time and continue to pull the skin all of the way off of the back feet. I should now have the skin completely off of the frog. Now I take my fingers and bend the tip of the front foot/leg. Where the foot bends at the tip, the wrist area, I take my knife and cut the foot off, cutting from the side right in the joint. I do the same thing to the other foot. I now have both front feet cut off. Now it is time for the back feet now. The process is the same as the front feet. I bend the foot and find the first joint. Then I cut through the joint from the