A good pattern in the summer is a small buzz bait in the ripple areas, used to get them at Southtown bait, take off the standard blade and replace it with a larger 3 blade plastic one, 1/8 oz head, white, sometimes black, weird thing only the black caught smallies...big ones...I used a tiny bait caster Ryobi and trilene 6# xt ( same diameter as regular trilene 10#)