andy_o i'm from maine to so i know what your going through. i tryed a lot of lures last year and i found that rooster tails work really good. if your smallmouth fishing switchoff between a rooster tail and a finess tube. if you don't know what these are you can google search them and find a lot of hits if you are largemouth fishing i would use a rooster tail, spinnerbait (which is better up here in june-september becasue the water needs to warm up), slug-o/fines-s-fish, you might want to get some fin-s-fish becasue you can fish a fin-s-fish a few different ways. to check out fin-s-fish go to www.lunkercity.com they will tell you about a few other good lures. adn last is a jig.