Thanks, everyone, for all the great advice -- we just got back and had an awesome time. We were out there 8-10 hours over the course of each day, pulling in plenty of panfish using worms, as well as some undersize bass and pike on spinners and spoons (lots of fun reeling in those pike, less fun unhooking them haha). I lost a real nice largemouth (probably 16-17") in the weeds just a couple of feet from the dock -- of course, nobody else was there to see it
My daughter got in on the act as well, and the kids even managed to pull their cousin away from his Pokemon games and got him fishing too (you have no idea what a miracle *that* is).
Awesome, awesome trip and looking forward to doing it again sometime.