Just to clarify what Gabe said: Northland Buck-Shot is an excellent rattling lure. I've used a Kastmaster with rattles, too but that's about all I know. I hope others will share specific lures they use.
Have you used PowerBait? Sometimes it saves the day when nothing else works. Garlic seems like a good choice. Saturday the fish at Fish Lake came arunning to it but wouldn't bite. Having other baits in the water at the same time is a good tactic. Cutbait also works well. Chub, sucker, etc. Where perch is legal for bait, cut small strips of belly meat, about the size of a waxworm or two. That strip will undulate enticingly with the smallest jigging action. Try Atomic Teasers, too. I like green and various combos of white and orange and pink. Be careful if you don't want to keep fish because they will swallow them. They are made of PowerBait stuff so fish tend to think they are getting the real thing. But they don't work without added bait. I like waxworms but anything might work.
Have you used PowerBait? Sometimes it saves the day when nothing else works. Garlic seems like a good choice. Saturday the fish at Fish Lake came arunning to it but wouldn't bite. Having other baits in the water at the same time is a good tactic. Cutbait also works well. Chub, sucker, etc. Where perch is legal for bait, cut small strips of belly meat, about the size of a waxworm or two. That strip will undulate enticingly with the smallest jigging action. Try Atomic Teasers, too. I like green and various combos of white and orange and pink. Be careful if you don't want to keep fish because they will swallow them. They are made of PowerBait stuff so fish tend to think they are getting the real thing. But they don't work without added bait. I like waxworms but anything might work.
The older I get the more I would rather be considered a good man than a good fisherman.