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6-21-2010--The winds calmed even more today. We had a beautiful day on the water. My four fishermen caught 18 trout and 8 black drum. We launched at the Saint Charles boat ramp and went north to San Antonio Bay. When we arrived the water was a little too sandy for trout but it cleared all day so that by the time we left it was perfect trout water. Saturday we launched from Goose Island with three fishermen and went North to Ayers point. By noon we had fished all over the second chain plus up and down the Matagorda shoreline but still had only one trout and one drum. We made a move to the west side of San Antonio Bay that turned out right. By then the water had cleared in that area and the bite was on. We ended the day with 19 trout, 6 reds and 3 drum in the box. We released countless large gafftop in the process. We only saw one other boat while fishing that area. Before Saturday I had mostly been fishing the upper laguna with good boxes of trout each day except the day everyone wanted to use artifical baits. That day we only caught keeper redfish and undersized trout. It seems to me there is just so much live bait i.e. menhadden, mullett and croaker in the water now that artifical baits are just not as effective as they normally would be.