A lot depends on the water temperature. If the lake is still cold you'll need a slow mover like a plastic worm, crawdad or tube. Just cast out and SLOWLY retrieve the bait, stopping it now and then. Also might try a suspending jerkbait using the same start and stop. If the water is warm cant beat a spinner... For clear water I like a white skirt and chrome willow blades.

Definitely spool your reel with fluorocarbon fishing line, it will greatly increase your hook ups if the bass dont see the line. I take a couple topwater lures (superspook jr, buzbait, zoom frog or speed craw), Spinnerbaits, Texas and Carolina rigged worms, couple of shallow short billed crankbaits, suspending mirrolure (shad or chrome colored) jigs and jerkbaits. I start my day fishing wiht top water, no fish bite is more exciting than a fish blowing up on a topwater. Then I'll move to tossing a Strike King soft jerkbait (Zulu or Ztoo) in green or pumkin to the shoreline and working thru standing grassbeds. As the sun get higher I'll start tosssing all the other lures and working deeper grass lines and drop offs.