Fly Fishing on Lakes - Looking for Fish

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Male Speaker: We are slaking down to the windward side of the lake and why don't we just put in a couple of lines out the sinking line they just troll up and what I like to do is just look over the side and see what's there. If you can see anything and see where we made some drop off or some ledges are or some weed beds or something or we just see where the fish are, if they happen to hit where we were trolling. Now the wind's going to make a little squirly coming in here, but I think being at this end if we can find fish up here a little easier. Female Speaker: Yeah well we fighting them down at the end of the other end of the way, right. Well they sure seem active so may be we'll get some lengths here. Male Speaker: Yeah it might work. It'd be okay so let's come on go ahead and do that. Female Speaker: So we search and we are going to troll. Male Speaker: Toward. Female Speaker: Up wind. Male Speaker: Yeah up wind and I like working up wind for another reason for casting that. When the wind does start blowing we'll go into that a little bit. With the wind like this you know a lot of people really get discouraged. They hear oh the wind was blowing too hard and even if especially if they've never used float tubes or boats because they think if it's really blowing that bad it's too hard to be out in the water in it, but actually the fish is easier out here. I mean you can imagine being on shore and trying to do this. It will just be really tough to move around. This way we can have constant pressure even though the wind's blowing fairly good here, I am barely kicking, you are barely kicking. We are just moving our legs like this. We do have to compensate every once in a while we'll get little broadside and wind will head us and move us down, that just means taking that leg and pushing it over to the side so you move one way or the other way. And I've watched you and I did it too and people have been doing a lot, you do it automatically. It just that you feel it you sort of you just start correcting as long as it isn't terrible. Fish just came up right here about 20 feet of there. Female Speaker: Really. Male Speaker: Looks like there is a little shoal there. Female Speaker: Yeah I see a little grass there. Male Speaker: Yeah well if that's floating in water. Really these work out really well even in - we wouldn't get ridiculous come out here in day or, or anything. Female Speaker: No. Male Speaker: But I mean you want to keep safety in mind, but we are moving just slowly up the shoreline just kind of looking around taking it easy. A lot of times this -- Female Speaker: Oh! Oh my gosh -- Male Speaker: - time it here and check it. Female Speaker: Oh Male Speaker: Alright Female Speaker: Yeah it's a nice jumper. Yeah oh pretty rainbow, perfect, perfect, perfect. Now he is headed - that's a nice way to start Bill. Female Speaker: That's a great way to start the day. Female Speaker Those are my beat -