I agree.

You might try froglegs. Bullfrogs are NOT in short supply.

I love the frogs - I think they're hysterical. We have four full grown (LARGE salad plate sized...no lie) bullfrogs and a bazillion tadpoles. They are part of the fun of owning a pond. They're like the resident clowns!

I've heard of people who have gone outside at night armed with a flashlight and a net and captured some of the noisy offenders and hauled them to a public pond, but like the other posters have stated, others will find their way to the pond.

The bottom of my pond is covered with tadpoles, but the toads just keep breeding, so I've been keeping an eye out for the gelatin-like strings of eggs and I've been removing those. They're usually wrapped around the pond plants, so I just remove them and hose them off, then return them to the pond. I hate doing it, but like you, I've had a population explosion. For some reason, the fish don't seem to be eating many of the tadpoles. I've seen several tiny toads or frogs hopping around outside the pond now. Very cute. However, I hope they hop on down the road. ;-)

We used to net frogs and take them miles away to the lake but that got old quick!!!

Last year as we were filling the liner the tree frogs were so loud we could not carry on a conversation or have dinner on the screen porch due to the noise. The pond is fairly close to the house and the ribbits echoed off the house!

This year for some reason we have more frogs and lots of noise but I have begun to get used to it. The tree frogs last year stopped calling around Aug.1 so maybe it will quiten down soon.

I'm jealous!!!

You get used to it!
Where I live, it is very "boggy" during the winter and little frogs do their breeding calls during the winter rains!
It gets SOO loud, people will come over to the house and say "What IS THAT?!?!?" and we don't even hear what they are talking about! e don't notice it after awhile!
Enjoy your froggies! Nancy

Hi Steve,
I always have to chuckle a bit when people come to a pond forum to ask how to get rid of the frogs. I believe everyone here loves frogs. If they don't have them, they definitely want them. Why build the perfect habitat for a frog, and then curse them?? Try to enjoy them. They seranade me to sleep every night. Its so much better than traffic or people noise!

I want frogs so badly and mine just disappear every time I get any. Hawks, cats,snakes, raccoons, skunks, don't know who is the culprit or culprits. Debbie

We cleaned my pond out I took all frogs down to farm pond .That night we got in bed sure enough there were 3 singing in pond right outside my bedroom window.One night sounded like my dog barking ,here it was the frogs.Use a long handle net.

Steve... what I would do to have a large population of frogs singing to us at night. Now first you need to make sure it's really the frogs and not toads. Toads mating calls are a very high shriek. Super loud and shrill. It annoyed my wife and I (and our neighbors) one year, but honestly you get totally used to it. When it disappears it's sad.

Green Frogs singing is like the plucking on a violin string. Very cool.

If you have Bullfrogs making all the noise - well I'm not sure what they do. But I had to remove 2 Bullfrogs we accidentally introduced. They were eating our Green frog population and our fish. Sadly, they were also the least friendly. We'd go out to feed the frogs, and the small Green Frogs would hop up to us for food and the Bullfrogs would dive away. After spending a month trying to catch the Bullfrogs nicely I had to resort to something different. Now keep in mind, we'd lost some precious fish and frogs to these guys so we had little choice unless we wanted to potentially sacrifice everything.

OK, like I said netting didn't work after a solid month of trying and the way I finally got them was with a bamboo fishing pole. Just a fly hook and stuck the bamboo fishing pole out our bedroom window. It hooked the bullfrog in the front lip and I was able to hop out and quickly put him in a container to be moved to a natural pond. His bottom lip was fine and I caught the second bullfrog the exact same way. It was much better than killing them or letting them kill the Green Frog population we're trying to establish.

i'm jealous!

i have a very love stricken green frog without a mate. he is constantly calling for a friend with no luck and no possibility as i know of no other pond around us and we are fenced in anyway with chain link.

is anyone in the burlington ontario area with an extra female?

i do not want any bullfrogs - they are exploding everywhere....

Bullfrogs are easily blinded with a flashlight. Sneak up on them and blind them by slowly moving the light within two feet of them. After that it is all in the hands....be quick.

P.S. nancym1956 .... Toad tadpole sucrete the same toxins as the adult and are distastful to the fish. Can even make them ill. So they never eat more than the first one!