Pros are always talking about catching fish deep on creek channels and roadbeds and channel swings etc. What exactly are these? Does anyone know where I can find a picture of examples of these?

creek channels is the path of the original river on a reservoir. These are important, especially in the spring as bass use this as an expressway to get to spawning grounds. Roadbeds are old roads that were flooded during the making of new reservoirs.

for roadbeds

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/fishingtips/news/story?page=b_story_roadbeds_part1_martens

Well to find pictures of them you would have to date back before that resevoir was flooded. Except there is this new side imaging sonar thing.  :....LOL

Roadbeds and creek channels are part of the lakes' bottom contour. Roadbeds were often built up near old river channels or within the flooded area, causing a drop off. They feature a hard bottom which is prefered by bass. Creek channels often serve as travel routes for bass in man made impoudments. It's simply a creek that exsisted before the flood.

Take a ride down the highway and look at what you are riding on and when you cross a creek or river look at it. A channel swing is just a turn in the creek or river. All that stuff is found to some degree in most man made lakes. It still looks like it did before the water covered it. Most successful fisherpersons will seek those areas as the bass will use those as their highway and stopping off places.

Creek channels are the original creek or riverbeds that flowed through an area before it was dammed up and flooded.  The roadbeds are the same types of things that were either there before or roads used for construction of the dam.  Old maps of an area before it was flooded or most good fishing maps show these features.

These are also types of structure that are relative to the waters you are fishing.  On larger reservoirs creek channels and river channels are usually fairly easy to locate but they may be overlooked on smaller waters and could become a honey hole if you find them.  I am a member at a small private lake (60 acres) and while fishing it one afternoon I noticed what appeared to be an old logging road in the woods next to the water.  Sure enough I was able to tell where this "road" had crossed what is now a lake.  I also found where the road entered the water on the opposite side and even in a small boat without electronics I was able to fish between these two points.  Later I was on the same lake in my bass boat and decided to check it out on the Lowrance.  The road bed was approximately 2 feet deeper than surrounding water and after marking it we proceeded to load the boat.  Crankbaits and Carolina rigs seem to be the ticket.