Leg Lover? Missouri frogging season starts June 30

The Missouri Department of Conservation sent out a press release last week announcing that frogging season officially starts on June 30. Whether hunting frogs — bullfrogs and green frogs only, please — for sport or for harvesting their tasty legs, there are rules that simply must be followed.

For one thing, the Missouri Department of Conservation permits only the hunting of frogs by hand net, gig, trotline, throw line, limb line, bank line, jug line, snagging, snaring, grabbing or pole and line with a fishing permit. With the proper hunting permits, frogs may also be shot with 22-caliber firearms, pellet guns, longbows or crossbows. What? You’ve never used a bow to capture a frog? Here’s how to do it. But, for God’s sake, kill the frog; don’t injure it.