dom,
if you want MHO, from a guy that spends 80-90% fishing in the dark stay away from surface lures, stick with small profile, shallow divers, the waters still a little cold so go with a lure that's got a tight action(wiggle) or go with small size sp's and light jig heads, you don't want to have to swim that lure through the water to fast so as not to hang up because it's to heavy, try shad tails and straight, try and keep your lures in the 3-5 inch range if poss, if water conditions are coloured up slightly, go a little larger in profile and length and maybe open up the wider action lures.
if you do want to use surface lures, keep your rod up and get them to slowly wake the surface.
keep your retrieve slow and simple, straight retieves work just fine and nail plenty of fish, lay in a coulple of stops here and there but mainly keep it simple and repeatable, what ever type of retieve you catch on, the rest will fall to the same.
colour wise what ever you have faith in, but dark colours score high as does yellow, purples, dark blues and did i mention yellow.
DO NOT SHINE YOUR LIGHT ON THE WATER, that is unless you want to go home early.
keep it slow, small and cover the water in a 3D image if that makes sense.
most of all keep safe.
all the best
kev
