Gambler Walking Frog

The Gambler Walking Frog is a 2.5-inch hollow-body topwater frog built for walking action, heavy vegetation and explosive bass strikes.

Featuring an ultra-soft body, pre-rigged rattles and custom weighting, the Walking Frog is designed to sit correctly on the surface and produce an easy side-to-side action while remaining capable of sliding across thick grass, mats and other shallow-water cover.

For Florida bass anglers fishing hydrilla, lily pads, grass mats, docks and shallow vegetation, it's a versatile frog that can move seamlessly between heavy cover and open water.

Easy Walk-the-Dog Action

The Walking Frog is designed to create a controlled side-to-side walking action with short rod-tip movements.

That allows anglers to keep the frog in the strike zone while working openings in vegetation, grass edges, docks and other high-percentage areas.

Unlike a popping frog that's designed to create more splash and surface disturbance, the Walking Frog provides a more subtle presentation that can be especially effective when the water is calm or bass are reluctant to commit to a louder bait.

Ultra-Soft Hollow Body

Gambler uses an ultra-soft hollow body designed to compress when a bass strikes.

That helps expose the hooks and improve hookup potential while maintaining the snag-resistant profile anglers need when fishing heavy vegetation.

Pre-Rigged Rattles

The Walking Frog comes with pre-rigged rattles that add sound to the presentation.

When fishing over thick vegetation where bass may not have a clear view of the lure, the additional sound can help fish locate the frog moving across the surface.

Custom Weighted for Better Presentation

Custom weighting helps the Walking Frog sit correctly on the surface and maintain its action.

At 7/16 oz., it also provides enough weight for accurate casting around isolated cover and for reaching areas farther back across large grass mats.

Built for Heavy Vegetation

The Walking Frog is particularly effective around:

• Hydrilla
• Lily pads
• Grass mats
• Duckweed
• Reeds
• Docks
• Overhanging cover
• Shallow vegetation
• Open pockets in grass
• Open water

Its snag-resistant hollow-body design allows anglers to reach bass in areas where conventional treble-hook topwater lures would be difficult to fish.

Choosing the Right Gambler Frog

The Walking Frog and Gambler Popping Frog are both hollow-body topwater frogs, but they shine in different situations.

Choose the Walking Frog when you want a more subtle side-to-side presentation around thick grass, mats, docks and calmer water. Its streamlined profile is designed to move cleanly through heavy vegetation while still walking effectively in open water.

Choose the Gambler Popping Frog when you want additional splash, sound and surface disturbance. Its concave popping mouth is particularly useful around scattered vegetation, isolated cover or whenever you want a more aggressive presentation to call fish to the surface.

Having both gives you the ability to change the amount of surface disturbance without abandoning the weedless hollow-body frog presentation.

Features

• 2.5" hollow-body frog
• 7/16 oz.
• Ultra-soft body
• Pre-rigged rattles
• Custom weighted
• Easy walk-the-dog action
• Snag-resistant presentation
• Designed for heavy vegetation
• Effective in open water
• Excellent around grass and mats
• Built for topwater bass fishing

Best For

• Largemouth Bass
• Florida Bass Fishing
• Lake Fishing
• Pond Fishing
• Canal Fishing
• Hydrilla
• Lily Pads
• Grass Mats
• Heavy Vegetation
• Docks
• Shallow Cover
• Open Water
• Topwater Fishing
• Frog Fishing

Why Choose the Gambler Walking Frog?

The Gambler Walking Frog combines the weedless capability of a hollow-body frog with a presentation that can be worked effectively in both heavy cover and open water.

Its softer body helps with hookups, the internal rattles add attraction, and the custom weighting helps maintain the correct surface position.

Most importantly, it gives anglers a more subtle alternative to a popping-style frog when conditions don't call for a lot of surface commotion.

Premier Tackle Take

The Gambler Walking Frog is an excellent match for Florida bass fishing, where thick vegetation often makes a weedless topwater presentation essential.

We particularly like the Walking Frog when fishing hydrilla, mats, pads and docks, especially during calmer conditions when a more subtle presentation can outperform a loud popping frog.

Work it across the vegetation, but pay attention when the frog reaches an opening, edge or pocket. That's a great place to slow it down, walk it in place or pause before continuing the retrieve.

If the fish want more commotion, that's when we'd switch to the Gambler Popping Frog. Having both gives you two distinctly different ways to fish a hollow-body frog through the same water.

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