Guess It Had To Happen: Frog Tourneys

Register, pay your $20, grab a gig, bucket and flashlight, and have at it. That’s all you have to do to be in the Back 40 Outreach frog-giggin’ derby in Tennessee tonight. More from here:

It’s the fourth annual Charity Frog Giggin’ Tournament, where giggers venture into area rivers, creeks, ponds, lakes and other bodies of water just after sundown and then gather again later to take a look at each other’s toads.

“We give everybody the rules and they take off to farm ponds or creeks or golf courses with water on them,” said tournament director Steve Neil. “Of course we tell them they’re supposed to have permission for where they gig. But I guess if you don’t get caught, you didn’t do anything wrong.”

I love that last line…which I guess applies to bassin’ tourneys too….

The tourney starts at 8 p.m. and the weigh-in is at 2 a.m.

Cash awards are given to the team with the most frogs and the biggest frog. “Last year we had a bullfrog that weighed almost two pounds,” Neil said. “It was probably 18 inches in length. That’s the biggest we’ve had.”

Here’s my second-favorite line:

Rifles are not allowed, only gigs….

Does anyone really shoot frogs with a rifle?!

Man, what’s next – firefly weigh-ins? Crickets?