Poppin' Pad Crasher Topwater Bass Fishing Hollow Body Frog Lure with Weedless Hooks

I postpone this review until I actually use the product. These are absolutely awesome. You need to trim off some of the skirt before use. I keep about 2cm (3/4”) and trim off the rest. This prevents short strikes and increases your chances of hookin’ that slab! In addition, I like to bend the hooks upward a little bit. I’ve noticed that I hook and catch a lot more bass when I do this to this frog. Some frogs don’t need hook adjustment right out of the box, but these kinda do. Anyway, FISH ON!!!!

Booyah makes excellent hollow body frogs for everyday fisherman’s wallets. No gimmicks the hooks are solid the quality is good. Frogs walk side to side easily. More n more other companies are making these expensive frogs with all fancy colors. Not necessary Booyah Frogs get it done.

There is no question about it. These lures DRAW strikes like CRAZY. Booyah is definitely doing something right here. The only reason that I give these 4 stars instead of the full 5 is that the hooks are aligned in such a way that their 'weedlessness' affects their ability to set. On my first day out with one, I probably had 10-20 solid strikes with many taking the whole lure underwater. I couldn't set the hook on them for the life of me--I only pulled in 2 bass out of all the many strong strikes I had. That being said, I have purchased four pad crashers since my first poppin pad crasher was so successful in drawing hits--I have two poppin pad crashers and two pad crasher jr. frogs, and I love them. Doing some reading online gave me the solution. All one must do is bend the hooks slightly upwards/outwards so that they run parallel with the frogs body rather than being turned inwards/downwards. While this will get you stuck in the pads more often, it allows the hooks to penetrate the mouth of a bass MUCH more frequently. The hooks are VERY VERY strong, I suspect they must be either 3X or 4X strong hooks, so it will take some real effort and care to bend these hooks slightly, so be careful! Overall, to sum things up, an excellent product--without bending the hooks, they are nearly impossible to get caught up, even when casting into the thickest lily pad beds. They draw fish attention without a doubt and you will get strikes like crazy. I had a poor hookup ratio, personally, but have found that a small modification will trade some of the weedless character for a more reliably setting lure.

I like these frogs. I have been using them for years. I have caught a lot of bass on them. They are very durable, and definitely out perform their price point. I have one that has caught probably 20 fish, and of course has been hit several times without a hook set. It has also been bounced off plenty of objects like trees, cement bridge pillars, and pier pillars, been drug through weeds, and is still going strong. The paint job is completely destroyed, but that has no affect on the performance. I have only thrown this black one a few times, and it hasn't been hit yet, but I'm sure it will.

Catches bass awesome time

These Booyah frogs are excellent. Perfect for walking and popping. The frog body is nice and soft. Bend the hooks up a bit and you have a deadly lure. Packaging was good they arrived in good shape. This color (Sunburn) out performs all other colors in my neck of the woods. Gonna catch me some HOGS!!!!

Booyah makes top quality lures.

The first thing I noticed is that the hooks have a very small barb on it, so most likely you'll be losing a lot of fish, and i most certantly did. The second thing the hooks are turned downward so that hookups will be bad so you have to take a pair of pliers and bend the hook up a little bit so that it's at least straight across and not pointing down. Don't bend them too much or it will change the way the weedless works. The third thing is cut half of the tails off those rubber bands are too long and the fish will grab the rubber bands and not get the hooks. How long they will last when catching predator type fish I don't know yet as I've only used one of the five I bought a few times. Update: I loose a lot of fish because of the small barbs. I have to squeeze the water out of the lure every 2 cast. But the bass n pickeral do seem to love them