why do I get this way every year? This fish makes snook fishing seem like fishing in a barral and I just get obsessed with it. I fish a 7 acre private lake and have a boom or bust track record. I am going to be fishing it hard over the next 6 weeks. How about casting out as far as I can and slowly reeling in with a bobber and a minnow from the shore. Is that ok? This lake is maybe 15 feet deep so how deep do you think the fish should be? Yikes.