JUST A REMINDER, DON'T FORGET TO BUY YOUR 2010 FISHING LICENSE!

  Nashvilles biggest bass club is proud to be launching @ Black Jack Cove Marina (previously Old Hickory Marina) on Old Hickory Lake.  The Black Pearl (The Black Pearl is their restaurant at the marina) will open   2 hours prior to our blast off times to serve OHPPBT Members a breakfast buffet.  We had our first tournament of the 2010 Old Hickory Percy Priest Bass Tournament (OHPPBT) season. We had asked everybody via our web site to send their membership in prior to the morning of the tournament. Most responded to our request and sent them in by mail or at our 2 meetings and we greatly appreciated it. We are not going to be accepting any new membership forms that are post marked after February 24th 2010. Returning OHPPBT Members from 2009 will be accepted until March 5th 2010 the day before our next tournament. As per our rules we have posted this change in our membership deadline on line. We made that change in dates due to the extreme increase in membership for this year. We have grown our membership by over 100% and increased sponsors by over 1000% (One thousand %) in the 1 and a half years since I have taken over. We have done this by great sponsors and tournament helpers. The other key to our success is the increase and keeping of our sponsors. That is due to all of the members using the sponsors and letting them know when we are spending money with them. Look under the our sponsors section of our site to learn about how your membership card can save you money at certain sponsors locations. You can pick up your membership cards at the first tournament you fish after your membership is accepted. I also want to thank OHPPBT's Assistant Director Scott Thorpe, and our tournament workers: Dayton Wauford Jr., Bob Parry, Brad Robinson, Don Graham, Bill Leaverton, Eric Walls, Detroit Brown, and any other members that helped out. I can not tell you how much we appreciate your commitment and effort you put in to making this a great success and my hats off to all of you. 

Well here is what you were waiting for. We had fresh Dunkin Donuts and they were great. Even though it was cold 61 boats show up to fish on Percy Priest Lake. Based on those numbers in the cold morning I would predict we will have around 75 boats per tournament in 2010. The weather was a bit chilly in the morning as it was only 26 degrees. The weather ended up being very nice with a light wind. It ended up with partly sunny and 56 degrees. The fishing was rather slow. Okay slow may be an understatement. I know that most of us never even got a bite. This was the conditions in our tournament as it was in others on Percy Priest Lake. I was told The Renegade Bass Tournament that was held out of Fate Sanders with around 50 boats and first place was reported as being won by under 12 pounds. The Old Hickory Bass Anglers on Old Hickory Lake was reported to have 67 Boats with under 9 pounds taking fist place. With all that being said it was tough. The OHPPBT had only 20 fish brought to the scales. We did not even have a 5 fish limit this event. We did have a nice sack of 4 fish brought to the scales to take first place with over 13 pounds. Only 15 boats brough fish to the scales. We paid out 5 places, 1st & 2nd Big Fish, and Secret Weapon gave the 6th place a Secret Weapon Prize Pack. We also gave out over $1500.00 in free door prizes (around 35 winners) distributed by random drawings. The grand door prize for this event was a Dobyns Rod with a retail value of over $240.00 (the winner was happy). Thanks again to all of our sponsors and I am very proud to be involved in a tournament of this calibur. Well here are the top 15 of the event (the only ones to bring fish to the scales). The report below does not have points posted. The points are now posted  under the "Points Standings" tab, in the 2010 section. 

These are the results for all the anglers who brought fish to the scales. A full list of participants are listed under points standings.

For any questions about the OHPPBT please feel free to contact Brad Chapman @ (615)497-7373 or email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  

Thanks,

OHPPBT Director,

Brad Chapman