Hey Talljeeper, glad to have you in town. I fish mostly Black Lake or Long Lake. Black Lake the bait of choice for me is a large jointed floating Rapala, in Brown Trout. Tolled at idle just slays them from about 6pm on 'till dusk. The rainbows just tear these things up! Now and then you will even get a nice bass. From the public ramp, go across the lake and hang a right. Start trolling just past the swimming hole, all the way to the pilings. The far side of the lake seems best. Long Lake, same thing just anywhere, but mostly in the south end seems to work. I haven't used pop gear, but would probably work great. A great extra feature is a rubber snubber about 2' in front of your Rapala injected with earth worm oil with a hypo needle. They can't leave it alone!!

Let me know if you want to go out some evening, I live about 5 mins from Black Lake.