Excellent advice fellows. Jigfish it is all trial & error with a whole lot of backwork & cleanup particulary if your dunking xmas trees which are on the bottom of my list. Stay with the cedars also call around to tree trimming companys in your area & be cordial enough to get them to share when they are putting crape myrtles out on the curb or before they put them through their chipper so you can haul off a few. Right now the last thing you want to hear about is more butt busting work but stay the course. Also the transition area as mentioned turned out some of my most productive areas on Lewisville. It only takes 1 or 2 surprise productive areas to get your confidence rolling again & subdue frustrations of lack of productivity. We had a Championship on Lewisville at the end of 2002 season & I knew nothing about the lake. After a pitiful performance I got extremely motivated to do better out there. The next year in an individual BC I took 4th with only 2 fish but my eyes were opening about where the bigger fish related to with hard work establishing areas as your doing the rest is history. On the Creek I have nearly 200 areas for about 7-9 spot on productivity. Those numbers fluctuate depending on the time of the year but never over 7-8 % of total areas established. That sounds real low I realize but I don't count 2 1/2 lbers as productive. Point being is I have alot invested as you will have also so be patient & don't expect every placement to yield superior results. A tip in great areas is to put single placement & very subtle as to be less detectable by other fishermen. Good Luck.