fished the ledges today

[JB]

Sneaked out today about daylight before a family get together, plus I had to deliver a chunk of 12 ga. stainless to some farmer. We got about 1 inch of rain yesterday and it sprinkled most of the time I fished from about 5:30 to 11 a.m. Went to the old cattlefarm pond and thought the popR would be the ticket, I saw a ton of panfish breaking the water chasing new fry. After about an hour of chuggin the popR I switched to dampeoples version of the chatterbait, nailed a small one, but at least it was a start. Went on to the horney toad and got several dinks up close to the bank, but not the size I was looking for. I remembered last year after spawn that the fish had backed off the banks and were near the first dropoff, about 5-7 feet. Put on a tiki stick in copper/brown mix, whacky rigged and started getting bit! Now this is more like it I am thinking. I put the boat over a few drops and fan casted the rest of the morning, yielding about 14 more bass, three went about 2 1/2 lbs,
the rest were just bout 14 inchers but not much weight to them.
Actually this is the first time I had gotten out the tiki for the year, I smeared them with carolina lunker sauce, and am a firm believer that the garlic scent made a dif.
About 95% humidity and air temp of 70, water temp about the same.
Tons of areas to frog, but not many takers.
Today my son Kyle is comming up for a grillout going away party. He's moving to Saint Petersburg in a few days, I was going to help but he got a truck to tow his jeep and a buddy to help, then he's flying the buddy back after they get settled in fla. The rest of the family is down there right now on vacation, my daughter and son in law, plus many nephews, neices and brother and sister in law are down there for a week or so. I got a huge slab of pork ribs slowly cooking and made up the famous family hot bar B que sauce to dabble on about 45 minutes from now, plus all the fixin's that go with a picnic, baked beans, slaw, tater salad, and some other homemade stuff Sherrill has made.
Other than that I've been painting the upstairs bathroom in a dried hot chili pepper color the wife picked out, with white gloss trim, its done and looks a lot nicer than I thought at first...the upstairs bathroom is 8X13 ft. It's been so humid that the blue masking tape wouldnt hold worth crap, so yesterday I took the 1 inch brush and touched up areas that needed it.
Had to reinstall a mozilla firefox browser after a "pooh paw" on my part, I ran a exe. command (wrong version of internet explorer) and it screwed up all my pluggin settings, this is the first time I have been able to use kevins tool bar , I was freaking out with no photoshop pics to display, but all is back to normal now lol.
Lizards, thanks again for the powerpro advise, it DOES get better the 2nd year, casting wise and easy to use..it came in handy today wrenching in the toads threw all the vegetation and timbers in the water.