I'll try to answer your questions the best I can having fished milwaukee all my life. First no don't start out deep, I'm assuming you'll start in April. Next keep track this year of the days you fished good or bad results. Just write down coordinates of spots you did good in, the date and water temp. You can right down some notes about conditions and other things you think might help. Here's where I would fish if I were you and you will be the most productive this way. April fish in and around the harbor, your just catching browns and Lakers. May, don't fish Miwaukee again until the 2nd weekend in June, go to Racine as soon as you hear people getting coho in Kenosha, they are already in Racine. Fish Racine until AFTER the lake sets up, then go back to Milwaukee and you should pound the kings. Usually between the second and third week in June. Then stay in Miwaukee the rest of the season. If you do the log thing and fish Milwaukee and Racine at the right times of the year I would bet you can catch atleast twice as many fish as you would have if you stayed in Milwaukee all year. Other than that you will start to put some patterns together about what time of year certain spot are hot or dead. Main thing that is hard to do when you first start out is fish away from the pack. When you find a good spot and nobody else is there you do have to keep that to yourself. Lakelink is great for the guys that don't get out much but it has ruined alot of good spots for the guys that hads the guts to fish miles from the rest of the boat pack. I've had it happen to many times where I went to a spot on Saturday and a few other boats showed up that normally don't catch alot of fish, but the fish were stacked on a spot so they had their best day of fishing. Then on Sunday instead of 3 or 4 of us on that little spot their were 30 of us and nobody did well.