Spent yesterday at Cachuma trying to catch redear for dinner at the flats and at the Island. The redear effort produced only one short LM bass. Not wanting to hook any more bass on crawlers I decided to switch to drifting for trout. The problem was to choose the right depth and spots because supposedly the rain of a couple of weeks ago scattered the trout (away from the west (dam) end to the east end, (where I did well with trout a few weeks ago), the recent heat wave should have driven the trout deeper, yesterday morning was cool with very low fog at the lake for longer than usual, and I was metering few fish and at very different depths. What to do? Because the wind picked up I decided to fish off the lee between E point and the marina. Because I was getting some readings at about 15' and thought that the bigger (and likely pinker and tastier) the fish would be somewhat lower I decided to start at abot 20'. But how to know that my bait was at 20' when the wind kept the line at an angle? Using a trigonometric table, and estimating my line angle I was able to estimate how much line to let out to reach 20' down. By the time I set up my trout rods I had already drifted halfway to Jackrabbit flats and was out of the lee and into the wind. No matter, I just let out more line according to my wider angle and trig table. But now there was only about one hour of fishing left. I set one rod down and let out the required 40' of line on the other rod to reach 20' when bang, a feisty trout takes off with long runs before I net the 2 1/2 pounder. Then bang, another hard-fighting trout 2 1/2 to 3 pounds hits the other rod and makes several nice runs before being netted. Then one more 1 1/2 to 2 pound trout comes to net and I decide to go home. Setup for trout drifting: high quality snap and swivel attached to Gammie 6 pound test dropshot (yes!) rig factory made with their #4 hook; at bottom of dropshot rig I attached a Gammie #6 hook; whole dilly crawlers nose hooked through each of the two hooks; weight was a snap on sliding sinker (Gremlin, dipsey?) placed above the snap. With this setup the dropshot leader flows straight out when drifting no matter what the main line angle is. Also, with this setup if the wind gets stronger or you want to go deeper you do not have to let out more line if you do not want to; you merely add more weight without reeling up by sliding an additional snap on weight on to your main line and let gravity take it to the snap to rest against the other weight. Sorry to write such a long report about "lowly" trout, but I must admit that the fights were very exciting and nothing like the wimpy trout "fights" (wet hanky) I have experienced trolling or still-fishing for trout at Cachuma (and elewhere). For me, drifting for trout is the way to go. PS. Because of the very cool foggy morning I also tried blindcasting for trout for a few minutes with a yellow/black roostertail, 1/4 oz. (What! 1/4 oz. for trout; yes I wanted big trout; small trout need not apply). I hooked one trout but lost him at the net. This was not a large trout, showing that a larger than usual lure can probably catch trout of various sizes. (Leapin Bass and Calico Hunter showed last month that 3" Big Hammer swimbaits can be super effective on trout).