ok lets say top water tem of mid size lake is 45 deg. {south carolina lake} spinner bait always works any other time now its cold an no bites...lets say it's a sunny calm day what would your next bait be and why ????

personally i would have to be throwin a crankbait if it was me over some deep points or at least some rip rap and dont be scared to break out a jerkbait

I would find some chunk rock banks and fish a 5/16 oz. jig n pig. Thats whats been working for me this winter. Also may want to try a finesse worm rigged with a small bullet weight or a 1/2 oz jigging spoon in some deep water using your sonar to mark some fish.

Suspending Jerkbait.  Cast it out and try different retrieves until you find what the fish want.  I'm a Rapala guy, so I like x-raps and husky jerks, but any quality brand should do.  

Also I'd give the nod to jig/pigs and drop shotting.

Hope this helps

My 2 best winter producers are small jigs and tubes. Get some small 1/4 to 3/8oz. jigs in natural craw colors and pair them with small crawfish trailers, cast them around riprap, deep cover, and laydowns. I prefer 3-4 inch tubes in natural craw and green colors, Texas-rig'em with a wide gap hook and a 1/32 to 1/16oz. bullet weight. Throw them around any cover or structure and work them with smooth slow hops and twitches.

good luck.

spinnerbait is still good very good just real slow Col. blade.I will use a spinnerbait year round water temp. and clarity determine color and speed, winter slow just off bottom .Stay with it it works winter is tough but its not so cold when the fish are big.

I would head to any thick shore cover or rock and flip. Why because the cover might hold heat and the high sun should position the fish there even in winter. Plain B crank the same areas but keying in on the edge of the cover or in it.