Last night I had intentions to go fishing today at Eagle Lake but during the night I thought about the intelligence I had received about things not really going on at Eagle. Fishing with a Ribbit was really on my mind so I changed fishing spots. I planned to go very early and both spots were the same distance away so wake up time was the same for both. I arrived at the landing at a little before 6 a.m.. The moon was full and was not long before setting. There was no activity on the surface to start off and the pads were not as thick as they have been before. It was an hour before the first bite. I saw a fish make a move and threw to it and it did not hesitate to hit the Ribbit. I hesitated, set the hook, and the fish came to the boat. The water was clear and when a bow wake appeared behind the Ribbit I let it drop but nothing so I pulled it in and the wake continued and parked under the bait. It was an enormous grinner. It just sat there and had its dorsal fin just waving from front to back. I threw over some thick pads to a shallow opening and a nice bass charged 15 feet to get the frog. The hook was set and the fight was on but the fish got hooked on one of the pad stems and since I was holding tight it had a something solid to pull against and pulled the hook out. Had four to do that to me today. On a fish later in the day that dove and became hung up in the pads, I immediately gave slack and it became unhung and got caught. The fish bit pretty much all day. They were still biting when the wind came up at 2 p.m. and made me quit. I was a good way from the landing and had to idle all the way back. That lake is so stumpy you have to idle everywhere you go. Hit 6 stumps on the way back. Got back at 2:40. I caught 7 fish out of probably 25 bites and the FOD of 5 3/4. Wish I could have landed a higher percentage of the bites but I got to see each one and had a ball. By the way, the full moon was the first full moon in May which is when the shad spawn. I didn’t see a damn shad.