The Bully Wa Frog is again capitalizing on the recent
successes of the “new and improved” Frogs.
As you can see from the photos, River2Sea did provide some great detail
with the bait and matched it up with a Gamakatsu EWG Frog hook. The one unique thing about the River2Sea
Bully Wa frog vs many other competitors is that the Bully Wa probably has the
softest plastic around. In addition the
Bully Wa claims a unique keel for better walking the dog as well.
Product Details:
Colors – Currently comes in 214 Colors (Per R2S’s Website)
Size – 2.5” or 65mm (reviewed)
Weight – 5/8oz
Hooks – Double 4/0 Gamakatsu Frog Hooks
Price – Starting at $6.99
FLL’s Take
The Bully Wa Frog comes in four
different sizes. For this review, we
were throwing the 65 size of Frog. As
with many of the newer Frogs, the Bully Wa feature some great detail in the overall
design of the frog in addition to the paint job. The Bully Wa features a unique keel design on
the underside (can be seen in the photos) which the manufacture claims it helps with walking the dog in
open water. FLL will have to agree with
the manufacture here in that walking the dog in the open water was pretty easy
to accomplish. The other unique feature
with the Bully Wa is the plastic material of the frog’s body. The bait probably has one of the softest bodies
on the market. What does this mean? Well we found that when fishing, the frog
maintained a good bite to hook up ratio without having to open up the hooks (as
done on most of our other Frogs). It
seems that with the softer plastic, the body can collapse better exposing the
hooks to a hungry bass better. The one
upside about this is that the bait still maintains its weedless profile as we
didn’t half to open up the hooks. In
addition as with most other frogs, all our casts landed right side up and ready
to go. Another potential upside to the bait
is that it felt like it took less rod movement to get the bait to perform, on
the flip side too much rod action caused the bait to roll.
Two downsides we experienced with
the Frog. One is that it took on water
at a faster rate than some of our other baits.
Yes this is a known problem with all Frog baits but I’m wondering if it
is again due to the softer bait? I’m not
sure. The other downside was
durability. This bait did do its number
to the bass on the CA Delta but it also took a beating. One of the baits started to tear at the bottom
where the hooks exited the body. This
was temporarily fixed with some glue before continuing to tear. The second bait is in the picture and you can
see some of the round rubber of the legs started tearing/falling off.
FLL’s Rig
Reel: Abu Garcia Revo S
Rod: 7’6” H Original
Carrot Stix
Line: 65lb Spiderwire Spectra Stealth Braid
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