Well its been a few years ago but we usually brought in some good fish by fishing far up lake in the spring. That area looks good and it really didn't matter how you fished it. If you bass fish alot you can figure what to throw when you get there. Some of those coves have stumps in the middle and tossing cranks, C-rigs and jigs can locate them. Good looking wood and creek channel drops to fish as well. We had a few tourneys that took 11lbs or more to place and that was with 4 fish limits. I have had many days pre-fishing with 13lbs or more with my best 4 by just "junk" fishing anything that looked good.
My belief is that the secret to that lake is trolling motor down and fish like crazy. I know this doesn't help alot but it's been a few years. We even went back a few times after the tourney to fish for fun because the fishing was so dang good.