Typically every year on the water i get out there and hammer the shore line and shallow cover.. at times it can be very productive. Id like to expand my arsenal of tactics and move offshore , particularly ledges. Heres my understanding on a good strategy. Cruise the lake looking for deepwater points with that relate to channels or creeks.

-I dont know if this is what i can expect but heres the sceneario that i can use to explain my hypethetical strategy.

Say i find that deepwater weedline relating to some deep offshore point-its 50 ft long and the depth ranges from 8-20 ft what i want to do is first see if i can find some key points on this ledge like a rock pile , timber, etc- if not i could try fishing the highest and lowest points of the ledges meaning a drastic inline or decline in bottom contour over a short distance. Am i on the right track here? how else would you start?

Sounds good to me. Pending on the species you're targeting and some other features that could come into play, the cover on the ledge is usually the sweetspot.  Most important is using your electronics to locate the bait. They almost always dictate where the bass will be.

Bass must have a visible path of breaks and break lines on a structure from deep water all the way to the shallows; which is where the bulk of food is available to bass. As bass move along a structure they pause or stop at "things"; breaks and break lines on the bottom. It is at such breaks that anglers can expect to make consistent contact with fish as they migrate along structure. This is why a certain stump or flooded tree, dock piling or submerged rock consistently produces bass for anglers. Most of the time such a spot is merely a break or bass stopping point on structure. Find more such breaks on the structure or break lines or even the deep water sanctuary near the structure then you'll find more and bigger bass more often.

There can be many structures, breaks, and break lines in a body of water. But only a few of them are so well related to deep water that schools of large bass consistently use them. The search for good fishable structure can be a quick one with much of the work done by simply studying an accurate contour map of the water.

Many of the best structures in a lake or river will have large fertile weed beds on them that harbor an abundance of minnows, crayfish and other bass forage. A weed bed a long distance from deep water with no "structure" linking the two will not be as productive as the weed bed on a structure having breaks and break lines near the deepest water in the area.

I would add to the information provided so far that little fingers or points with a steep drop on a ledge are logical places to look as contact points for fish.  Add to that some bait and cover nearby and you've probably found a spot that will attract fish.

As per request

Breakline: A breakline can have more than one meaning. It can be another word for a drop-off/ledge, or a point of any quick change in depth. It can also be used to describe the edge of a vegetation line. For example, a "weed break" is the area of the weed bed where the weeds meet up with open water; or, where one type of weed meets up with another. The last example happens when bottom composition changes, as different weeds prefer different types of bottom composition. In rocky impoundments, a breakline can also describe a line where rock meets mud, pea gravel, etc. In other words, the most correct definition for a breakline is "Any distinct line that is made by cover or structure which leads to an abrupt change in bottom depth, composition, or cover transition".

Perfect! Thanks for clearing that up, I look forward to getting out on the water and giving it a go

Thanks for the Def. Catt