Lots of good advise on the thread. There are times that Old Hickory can get some pretty heavy fog on it. Even with GPS, it is pretty dangerous to run in the fog, so I'd recommend waiting for the fog to lift.
Learn to read your GPS. Understand whether it it showing "north up" or "head up". If "north up" the top of the view is north. If "head up" the map rotates based on your heading. Some of the lakes I go to have very shallow points and extensive shallow flats and if you end up shallow, you want to know which way to point the boat to get to deeper water. Old Hickory has shallow areas, but those are all located outside of the channel boys.
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