Yard Sale -
A clumsy short cast at best! My bass fishing is done from a boat equipped with a bow mounted electric motor, good electronics (depth finder and GPS) and if attempting the indicator approach intimate knowledge holding areas. The game becomes getting the fly/indicator combo into the water best I can after position the boat over known holding areas, use the electric to extend the cast (working into an breeze), hold the boat steady and work the combo back to boat and repeat until potential holding area is covered.
Doable yes!, painful tedious yes! and frankly once I demonstrated that the approach could produce during the periods when the fish are holding in that 20 to 30 zone and are relatively inactive (slow presentation needed) I opt for my spinning rods and jigs. I reserve my fly efforts for another couple weeks when the fish move shallower and at less for short periods are more active and approach with more conventional sinking fly fishing approaches are productive.
Targeting lake smallmouth (at least here in W. Washington)with the fly rod is a game driven by water temperatures and the bass' response to the changing conditions but those details are outside of the deep water game.
curt