From its shoreline, Wular Lake is soothing to the eyes. It is breathtakingly beautiful. The vast and expansive lake, surrounded by snowclad mountain peaks, looks full of water currents crisscrossing in intricate patterns. A number of fishermen and women in dozens of boats are fishing on one side of the lake closer to the shore. They beat drums apparently to push fish one side before laying their nets. You feel it is the season of festivity within the waterbody. But half an hour deep inside the water body, you find the lake turning into small water streams in the middle of a huge siltation field.