Want to get your hook-up ratio up to 90% or better when frog fishing? Start cracking them! That’s according to Todd Castledine. Castledine has made a healthy living in tournaments in Texas and now across the country on the FLW Tour with a frog on a big rod with heavy braid and cracking them as hard as he possibly can.
He discusses how he warms up and why he believes so many people miss fish on a frog. The transition from other conventional techniques and lighter rods to the nature of the lure and what it takes to get those double hooks to stick solid when they have your line draped around heavy cover.
He talks about his tackle, his mechanics and the importance of giving yourself some time to warm up before it gets serious, like come tournament fishing day.
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Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
