I love fishing lakes from the float tube. I have a sinking line I use most of the time and put a big bugger on it and let it sink...then let it sink some more...You don't have to strip, you can just keep kicking and you kind of troll. Caught thousands of trout that way. If I see something that tells there is a certain place the trout are holding, i'll try to park a short cast away and cast over them and then strip it thru the spot. Usually up toward the surface seems to work best. Short fast strips using just my wrist to pull the line up onto the apron. Of course if i see risers I just switch spools and my floating line is ready to go. Later when the weeds get nasty, I use the floating line more and more even for weighted buggers. I caught trout at 40 feet on size 18 chironomids once in Idaho on the advice of a friend. That was cool. But I prefer a leisurely kick around the lake trolling a bugger or damsel nymph, sometimes both. From shore lake fishing is more like stream fishing...always moving, looking for something. Dredging with streamers, nymphs below an indicator or dries to rises that are usually 5 feet further than I can cast. Find one of those lake they stock with the trout from North Carolina and dries are a must.
