First of all welcome to the site. I have not been hear long myself but I think you will enjoy it. Wish I could help you about Patoka but it's been about 3 weeks since I've been there. At that time the water was still pretty muddy. We caught crappie but most of them did not have any size. I usually launch from the Newton Stewart ramp and go under the 145 bridge. This area has a lot of stumps so that would be the places to check. At the time I was there the water temp was around 63 degrees. We did catch fish just most of them were small.
Good luck
Mike