You are smart to choose a guide to go there for the first time. That being said it is the worst time of the year to go for big fish. Spring and early summer is the best time of year to go for them. It is late in the year and the the weather has been cold but at this time of year there was usually several big stripers at the hatchery stream discharge before the light hits the water for the wader fishermen. You can put in on the obey at celina with a boat about a tracker and go out to the cumberland river and run up several miles on the river before you will see a shalllow area.