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I know we started off a little bit slow but we were amazed by the turn out. Please be patient as we are not the BFL or Bassmasters. We do not have a team of paid staff or a weigh in trailer. All tournament helpers are anglers just like you, except they show up 2.5 hours early, participate and come in with in 15 minutes prior to of the end of the tournament, then stay to take it all down. . We also must keep in mind that you are only paying $25.00 per person,  and not big money like national series that charges $100.00- -$2500.00 per person. With our door prizes and fish off prizes we pay back over 200%.  The OHPPBT has grown over 130% in just the past 14 months. There will be minor growing pains and this is why we closed the membership a little early this year to help us slow the growth of Nashville's hottest bass tournament. We started off the day with a breakfast buffet @ The Black Pearl at Black Jack Cove Marina on Old Hickory Lake. The morning was chilly at only 25 degrees f. We were holding our first tournament on Old Hickory Lake  for the 2010 season. Black Jack Cove Marina is our new location for this lake during the 2010 season. We were served a buffet style breakfast that started around 4:30 am. The Marina Restaurant (The Black Pearl) will be opened up 2 hours prior to our scheduled blast off time to offer the buffet to OHPPBT for each Old Hickory Lake tournaments. We are very lucky to have a facility of its caliber to host our events. The single lane ramp is scheduled to be replaced by a double lane ramp and also new asphalt in the parking lot is set for the fall of 2010. We had 89 boats blast off around 6:34 am and we fished until 1:30 pm. The weather ended up very nice but the fishing was still cold for most of us. It was very tough as the fish were still hard to find. Many anglers did not even get a bite. Only 29 boats had fish with only 2 ( 5 fish bags) limits weighed in. 17 boats of the 29 boats only had 1 fish. We appreciate all of your patience as we are still learning our new high tech Pro Tournament Scales with Taysys Software. We have taken steps to assure the sign up and weigh in goes much faster and will be implemented during our next tournament. We gave out over 38 door prizes ($1600.00 worth) as well as paying the prize money out to the top 5 places, 2 big fish places and the Secret Weapon Prize Pack Winner to 6th place.  Brad Chapman of Tornado Termite & Pest Control/OHPPBT Director Donated and extra $230.00 towards the pay out for this tournament. (it was divided up and paid as part of the pay out for 1-5 and 2 big fish winners) We did have a few learning curves at our new location but over all it went very well. If you would like to launch from another ramp to avoid the lines to launch please feel free to. We will have a livewell checker at the end of the fuel dock for each event. Please make sure and read all the rules to familiarize yourself with them. Knowing your boat number is very important. Per the rules and in the future (as posted on our Forum & Rules on our site) if you give your wrong boat number, your out of luck. If you were supposed to win money, we will donate that money to the fish off. This will help make things go smoother and stop any confusion. Black Jack Cove Marina provided the OHPPBT with a release boat for our bass to be relocated outside of the (no fishing zone in the marina).  I want to thank all of our sponsors and all of the event workers as they are very dedicated to the OHPPBT and I want them to know that I appreciate all they do. I also want to thank all of our sponsors. If you want to know who gives discounts or deals to members check out the "our sponsors" tab on the main page of our site. Well here are the tournament results for all those who caught fish. The Points Standing have also been updated on this site under the "Points Standings" tab. Again thanks for your patience and we will see you on the water.

 These are only the 29 boats out of the 89 boats that weighed in fish.

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

  Black Jack Cove Marina (previously Old Hickory Marina) on Old Hickory Lake will open The Black Pearl(The Black Pearl is their restaurant at the marina)  2 hours prior to our blast off times to serve OHPPBT Members a $5.95 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

NO MEMBERSHIP FORMS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER FEBRUARY 24TH 2010 (they must be delivered either in person or post marked by 2/24/10). We will continue to accept returning members from (2009 last years returning members) until March 5th.  Sorry for any inconveniences this may cause. We are trying to control our growth to serve our members the best way we can. Please do not show up at the ramp to sign up for the March 6th tournament as you will be turned away. No membership forms will be accepted after the above dates except for Dept. of Defense or active U.S. Military personnel. They may join up anytime via mail prior to our tournament dates. (they are the only exception) Thanks for your support. As per our rules state we are making the announcement on our web site since we can't on our fliers. We estimate by the day of the March 6th event to have 225 Plus members! Please call me with any questions or concerns. 

OHPPBT Director,

Brad Chapman

(615)497-7373