Redear I think that you are getting in to a south vs north lake type here. I don't live that far from skip and I don't use that many minnows but just plan old jigs most of the time. You don't have the cypress trees and treefalls that the southerns have. In the fall I like to fish the brush piles with a jig right in the edges. As it get winter here I start to troll roadrunners. Post spawn I hit the cypress trees with black jigs in the mid summer its night fishing and dockshooting. When it is fall and the shad start to move its back to the brush piles and it starts all over.