It's interesting how many techniques that work for LMB also work for the checkerboards, and vice versa! Swimbaits designed for calicos are deadly on the freshwater bass, and guys put the hurt to the calis with LMB techniques, too- even spinnerbaits. Try crawling a fat bodied plastic (zipper worms, brush hogs, craws, etc) across the bottom during winter, calicos will whack it. They hit cranks, too, during the right conditions. Texas rigged plastic worms work really well on the spotties, as well as the calicos in the bays. They are both predators, chasing baitfish and crustaceans(sp). You'll do fine using whatever you've learned about catching any structure oriented predator. Tight lines!
P.S.- practice C&R with all of them, if you can!