It's my last day of vacation so I decided to spend most of it on the water. I started off around 7:30am fishing a bone she dog. The 2nd cast boated a small trout but the next one was a nice solid 2 pounder. I kept it for a late lunch when I got home. I fished around the point at East pass and had 2 more fish blow up on the bait but never really ate it. I drifted on across the 3 foot deep flat and headed West. For the next several hours it was nothing but casting.No bumps no blow ups , no nothing! I finally boated 2 small trout in the barrel channel. I drifted across onto the next flat and hooked up with a nice 17 inch trout fishing the she dog. I kept the same drift and had 2 more blow ups and saw one fish make a run at the bait but it didn't make contact.

As I was fishing along I witnessed an Osprey dive into the water and come up with a small tear dropped shaped fish. I had noticed these fish jumping like mullets for a while in the area. I got to thinking, Match the hatch! I have a bait called a catch 5 that looks very close to the small fish. I move back up to my starting point and drop anchor. I get one tied on and make a long cast. BAM!, a hard run and a good fight. 3- 3/4lb. trout in the boat. make another cast BAM! another fish this time it weighs 4-3/4 lb. It's amazing, I had been drifting over these fish the whole time. They wanted a specific shape and the Catch 5 was it. I boated 5 fish from 3-3/4lb. on up to 5 lb. ! in less than an hour fishing in 30 inches of water at straight up noon. The water was so clear I could almost see the bottom. I had another 3 or 4 fish on that fought like the ones I boated but they pulled off before I got a look at them. The catch 5 had a white belly, holographic sides and a dark green back Just goes to show you, pay attention to what's going on around you and maybe you can figure out what the fish will bite. I was scouting for a booked trip on Saturday"hope there still in the area" so I left for the house to cook the one trout I kept for a late lunch.

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