Went Fishing on Monday

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Me and my dad went out fishing on Monday on a lake near my house. The lake is not huge but good sized for around here. The lake runs north to south, with the south end usually containing a large mat of lilly pads but on Monday they were just starting to grow up. The water temp was about 45 degrees, blue bird skies and a visability of aout five feet. This was also the first nice day in a long time, the night before it rained really hard. We started off the day throwing frogs, jigs, lipless cranks and spinnerbaits through the growing lilly pad bed. It was only about five feet deep so pretty shallow I think for early fall? but my dad got a hit on the spinner bait. After that we started working our way around the lake and hitting docks and over hanging trees with worms, jigs, cranks, jerkbaits and spinnerbait. We fished from about 8am to 2pm with only that one bait. I am planning on going back again in a couple days. Any advice on how I should fish this lake and these conditions?

Baits
Jig- a black and red 3/8oz jig with a red and black craw trailer
spinnerbait- a 1/4oz char/white double colorado spinnerbait
jerkbait- original rapala
cranks- different DT's in silver/black or bluegill pattern
frog- green spro frog
Softplastics- senkos and craws T-rigged

P.S. first time using my new rods and reels from christmas, and first time casting a baitcaster for a long period of time. didnt get too many backlashes so that was good

Thanks for any advice.