Thanks guys...any help is greatly appreciated!! From google earth it looks like once you make that turn back to the right and shaw bluff ends that the trees do go straight across the lake....is that where you shut down and idle through? Then you can open it back up again? Flysmallie, you run the channel up against the bluff bank?? Just stay between the trees? Have ran channels like that before just didn't know if there may be a random tree actually in the channel