Read these reports thoroughly, and make notes Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources - Preliminary Results and it should help you with your Crappie hunting.

Use your maps to stay in the channels/deeper waters, when running these lakes ... and don't expect all the channel bouys to be there, either (been there, done that, & ended up on a sandbar :o ) Use your maps to locate points of reference .... but, believe your depth finder over what your map says.

For your first trip, I recommend picking a creek/bay and using your entire time working IT ... rather than hopping from creek to creek. You obviously know enough about Redear & Gills, to know what kind of structure & cover they're likely to be found on ... so I'd pick a creek/bay that had the most abundance of that type of structure/cover, in the depths that those species were most likely to be in at that time & under the prevailing conditions.

... cp