Okay so now I have my boat and all my new GPS and fish finders. I went out last night and just looked for the creek channels . I found one that where the creek channel comes right up to the mouth of a big cove and then swings out back into the main lake. I showed quite a few fish stacked up in the channel on fish finder

Its the kind of place that up till now I would have fished the points of the cove and then just went on up in the cove and fished the cover. So for the first time I want to fish where there is no visual cover . So this is my plan for that tell me if this is wrong or what a better way to do it would be.

My plan is to drop buoys marking the creek channel where the big bend is and fish it all morning till I prove to myself I can catch fish without a bank or cover to throw at.

My biggest problem is what lures to use. Water drops from 8 ft in mouth of cove down to 25 in the bottom of the channel. I thought of starting with a rat-l-trap and running it down through there and then some deep diving crankbaits. But what else would you try. I quit fishing in 1994 and just started again I've been reading a little about drop shotting would this be an option?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated

We do a lot of that type fishing on Kentucky Lake ... the most common lures are Carolina Rigs, Heavy Jigs, and very deep crankbaits like Norman's DD22.

Good Luck

Go with your favorite technique?