Thanks everyone for the tips and advice. My set up is a 4.6 ultra lite Ugly Stik with 4lb trilene and a 8ft BnM jigging pole with 6lb. and I think I'm going to invest in more dark colors as well, where I go a lot seems to always be a cloudy, yellow/green color with about 2ft of visibility. The area is pretty much a flat bottom bay with a few drop offs but no real structure to speak of. I'm finally going to make the trip to the "new lake" I've been talking about Friday, it's an old glacier formed lake and supposed to have all kinds of drop offs and structure...we'll see. Thanks again