A few years ago, after the passing of a gig building “old timer”, a good frog gig was hard to find. So began our quest to build a better, stronger and all around easier-to-maintain frog gig. After weeks spent in our low-tech machine room, we just couldn’t economically reproduce what was out there. While cleaning up the machine room we found a piece of solid aluminum round rod, and the idea hit. Our first few were big, bulky, crude and UGLY. Next we had to figure out how we going to attached the tines. Our thought was, “let’s make it easy for the frogger”. Think about it; it’s night time, you’re in the frogs thick and you damage a tine. With our patent-pending design, a simple turn of an allen wrench (included in every package) is all it takes. You loosen the set screw and remove and replace the damaged tine.
We have personally spent many months (and hundreds of gallons of gas for the airboat) testing our many prototypes. We also enlisted the help of other froggers; we gave them a gig and they gave us feedback (good and bad). After some additional machining, we created some flats on the head and then we had this body with flats and flare and it looked great!
Now we needed tines, real ones. We tried buying hooks and straightening them, but that was too costly and time consuming. So we flew to Denver, Colorado and met with Eagle Claw to see if they could help us. As you can imagine we were ecstatic when they agreed to build them for us. After a few weeks in the design stage they went into production and we soon received our custom Eagle Claw® Sea-GuardTM plated steel tines!
We developed the EZGIGTM with the Lake Okeechobee frogger in mind!
- It’s lightweight: about 1oz is all.
- Our tines are a lengthy 5-1/2″.
- Tines are individually replaceable.
- Comes in 3 and 4 tine models and your choice of 3/8”I.D. or 1/2” 1.D.
- Proudly made in the USA!
