Homer...
I'm also a newbie as far as targetting Lakers but one technique that produce well for us last Sunday was simply to locate points, drop off, submerged structure such as: tree stumps, rocks and cast to the shoreline a 3" power tube in white tipped with half a worm, let the tube go down a bit, retrieve by raising the rod quickly, reel in the slack and let it go down again, repeat, etc...
The lakers I caught all took the tube on the way down and basically smashed it. Another technique that we used was to work the shore line by casting a Mepps Black Furry #5 orange dots on the blade, treble dressed.... That thing was the number one lure and lakers literally smashed it.... Ask my friend Paul and he'll tell ya
Paul's boat is equiped with an electric trolling motor at the front which he use to position the boat and let us drift in specific areas on the lake along the shore.
We also worked underwater flats with tubes and buckshots jigging vertically while drifting or being anchored.
Hope this makes sense and helps you out.
Good luck with your laker quest!!!
Leechman
Edited to say: Lakers seemed to keyin on white from what I observed on the lake we targetted.