Sometimes you may find that you are boating in circles. You hear a frog, go to it, it gets away, you go to another frog, the frog you just left starts croaking, the one you just went to gets away, you go back to the first one and the process repeats itself. It helps to just get the frog the first time but sometimes those big ole frogs that are holed up in a hole behind a stump can be quite the challenge. I have learned (by way of just getting tired and deciding to turn out the lights and watch for shooting stars) that you can stay right where the frog was when he got spooked and after about ten minutes you might hear the frog swimming around in the water. One of my frog gigging tips is to just continue to stay still and in about another five to ten minutes the frog might start croaking again real close to where it was originally and; hopefully, within gigging range.
Another of my frog gigging tips is to aim for where you think the belly of the frog is in the water. On one of my earlier frog gigging trips I came home frogless. I was not following through with my gig attack so I was not gigging fast and hard enough for one thing. The other thing was that I was aiming for what I could see, the head and eyes. Well, the next time I went gigging I was in the boat and realized that I was aiming for the hardest part of the frog and that the legs and belly were the soft parts that were more likely to get gig penetration. As soon as I started gigging fast, not "pulling my punches" and aiming for the soft belly area of the frogs, I began pulling in many more frogs. It just takes some visualization to guestimate the approximate location of the belly of the frog in relation to the visible head and eyes.