Depending on "where" in the creek I'm fishing ditates on how I approach. Faster water sometimes don't give me a lot of casts to such structure. I mainly have a small buzzer or plastic tied on 2 different rods. I'll work the buzzer a couple of casts then drop the plastic in accordingly.
Some of the slower impoundment gives me the lake approach.
Woodpiles and laydowns in creeks will be a little different that lakes.
Mother Nature will change a laydown into a woodpile in a creek over time. Sometimes that time will vary. Sometimes that laydown will take on different angles the older it gets.