Buzz toad (kicking frog)

A solid soft frog whose legs churn the surface when reeled fast — a weedless buzzbait that sinks when you stop, so it fishes over and into grass.

Soft plastics are the biggest family in bass fishing: 36 shapes, each designed for a rig, a depth and a mood.

• Shape = design purpose: fish, worm, craw, creature, tube, frog
• Finesse tier vs power tier: the same shape at 3.5 in and 7 in is two different techniques
• Tail type decides the action; body decides the fall
• Rig it the way it was designed to be rigged

1. What it is — A flat 3.5-4.5 in body with two paddle legs, Tex-posed on a 4/0-5/0 wide-gap or shank-weighted hook. Reeled fast the legs kick and gurgle; stop and it sinks.
2. Designed for — Largemouth in sparse grass, pads and along reed edges in warm water: burned over the top, paused in holes. The sink-on-pause is the follow-up bite a hollow frog cannot…
3. Trade-offs — Hook-up rate on top is poor; a trailer hook helps. Not for mats — that is the hollow frog's water.