First welcome from Kentucky you will be able to learn alot here. The best advice I can give you is to get out and find the dropoffs along the creeks feeding into the main lake. If you find a big ball of bait fish you can also find the Crappie because they will school right under them. Take either a live shad or a small jig and get right under them and you will see a large increase in your catch. I hope this helps good luck.:D