We were glad to have our DUNKIN DONUTS and the facility provided by Cedar Creek Marina to start the day. The day started with no fog (that was nice), a little light rain on parts of the lake, sun, clouds, and a good crowd. There was 49 boats and we blasted off at the scheduled time of 5:00 am. Out of the 49 boats entered all but 7 of them brought fish to the scales. We had 25 boats that brought a limit (5 fish) brought to the scales to be weighed. Our Tournament Director (me) forgot the raffle tickets but we hand made some to get us by for the day. We still managed to give out almost $1000.00 in prizes plus the entry money. The points are posted, updated and ready for viewing. I want to thank all our sponsors and all members who attended this and every tournament. I want to say a special thanks to Shonna Silvey, Don Graham, Brad Robinson, Scott Thorpe, Jimmy Ivey, Tony Byrd, Troy Brown, Lane Brown and anyone else who helped out on Saturday. I was not my usual jolly self since I had forgotten the tickets, so thanks for your patience with me and the support. I appreciate all of your patience at the ramp when we were taking out at the end of the day. While we were comming out the ski boat crowd (that can't back up a trailer or didn't seem to know ramp edicate) converged on Cedar Creek Marina. This made it very crowded. For those of you that want to start later in the day, this is why we do not start later this time of the year. We are trying to beat the heat and the crowd on the lakes and at the ramps. Well here we go with the results.

1st place with 13.73 Lbs. Tom Clark & David Edmonds

2nd place with 11.47 Lbs. Don Graham and Brad Robinson

3rd place with 10.79 Lbs. Jami Golden

4th place with 10.64 Lbs. Will Liddell & Joey Wyatt

5th place with 10.07 Lbs. Todd Storch & Tony Parkerson

The Big Fish was a 4.19 Lbs. Largemouth, Brad Robinson

The 2nd Big Fish was a 4.15 Lbs. Largemouth, Jami Golden 

Congratulations to all who entered and fished. We have many good anglers and this is adding to the long weigh in lines. I zero out or reset the scale after each and every bag is weighed. Doing this it may add a little time extra to the time in line but since we weigh to the 100th of a pound this is necessary to ensure that all bags are weighed properly. This way if there is any residual water in the basket it is not counted as fish weight. The scale does not measure until the weight is stable and the water stops draining. We do not start weighing fish until 15 minutes after the end of the event. (this allows us time to get set up and ready) I have a big concern for the well being of the fish we catch. We had to many losses due to fish being in the bags to long while in line. Here is how we will do our part to keep the fish healthy. This is a NEW RULE STARTING OUR NEXT EVENT. All fish are to remain in the livewells untill we call for the weigh in to begin. We will take flights of ten boats in line at a time. when we are down to 1 or 2 in line we will ask for the next 10 boats. ANYONE CAUGHT WITH FISH IN WEIGH BAGS PRIOR TO THERE # BEING CALLED will get a 1Lbs. penalty. We are the conservationest of the lake, we must do our part. The fish will have a much better chance in your boat livewell than a bag in line for 1/2 hour. As long as your chip is in the bucket by the closing of the event you will get your fish weighed. With out a healthy supply of fish in our lakes we wouldn't be here to fish!

We had a great turn out considering the weather forecast. Well this is starting to sound like a broken record as far as the weather goes. We had plenty of boats boats show up to fish the windy, wet weather on the lake. We did have a little (very little) sun, a lot of clouds and off and on sprinkles, rain and even a few reports of bb sized hail. The most common response to what did you catch yours on? The answer was "a jig". I want to thank all who helped and not in any certain order: Don Graham, Brad Robinson, Tony Byrd, Troy Brown, Luke Mena, Ron & Verna Osborne, Bob Parry Lane Brown & Will Liddell.  If I left anyone out I am sorry and I appreciate all your help as well. I also want to thank all our sponsors for your help and contributions. We all enjoyed the supply of fresh Dunkin Donuts that we gobbled up. The points are posted and ready for viewing.  Well here we go with our top 5 places and 1st and 2nd Big Fish winners.

1st Place with   15.32 lbs.  Josh Clary & Kyle Crecelius

2nd Place with  15.09 lbs.  David Modglin & Dr.David Uskavitch

3rd Place  with  14.51 lbs. Toby Martin & Gary Martin 

4th Place with   12.53 lbs. James Victory & Dorsey Lewis

5th Place with   12.23 lbs. Alan Maxwell & Grady Wilson

Big Fish with a 5.24 lbs largemouth bass was Brandon Johnson

2nd Big Fish with a 5.20 lbs. largemouth bass was James Victory

We had 5 keeper smallies brought to the scales along with several fish over 4 lbs. I want to thank all who participated, sponsored and or helped make this tournament what it is this year. I know some of you are wanting to fish the weekend after Memorial Day. I will not be able or willing to put one on that week. I spoke with a few other members and I think Scott Thopre is going to try to put on a non club sactioned parking lot tournament that weekend. Keep checking on the web site forum section for more info. Please don't ask me about othis as I will be out of town that weekend. I will be letting Scott use the club scales and equipment but I want to make sure this does not have any points or credt towards the fish off qualification. I also want to make sure everyone has their OHPPBT Memebership Card at all of our regular tournaments. I will be requireing all of you to show me your card. No Exceptions! We had someone try to sneek in as a member this past Saturday. Thanks Brad Chapman

Plenty of fishermen in rain gear showed up to fish in the less than perfect weather. Thanks to Cedar Creek Marina and Fish Tales Grill for hosting the tournament. We all greatly appreciated the shelter from the rain while waiting to blast off. We started with 15 minute or so delay waiting for safe light, since the storms had so much debris in the water. We delayed the weigh in until 1pm since we blasted off a little late. The day was very much the same as the previous few days with scattered showers and storms. We did have a nice window to fish for most of tournament day being cloudy and light rain. I have enver heard of a tournament to have such a high % of limits of frish brought to the scales. We had 42 boats  (we were down from our normal 55 boat average due to the weather) that braved the weather. There were 27 limits of fish brought to the scales with a total of 157 fish weighed in.  All but 4 boats made it to the scales with fish. Wiith that being said it was a long slow weigh in line. A special thanks to all of our sponsors. Dunkin Donuts provided us with our doughnuts for the before and after snack. We also want to welcome our two new sponsors, Team Marine and Ozark Tackle. We are also now sanctioned by Skeeter Boats with a Yamaha  Combo. (see Team Marine for detals) Well here are your top five and Big Fish Winners! Look how close the weight btween 2nd - 5th places were.(only .56 Lbs. difference) I will have the points updated and posted wiith in the next 7 days.

1st Place   with 13.57 Lbs.  David Edmonds & Tom Clark

2nd Place with  12.58 Lbs.  Jason Hale & Adam Goodwin

3rd Place with  12.38 Lbs.  Jesse Gleaves

4th Place with  12.32 Lbs.  Josh Williams & Wayne Hunter

5th Place with  12.02 Lbs.  Brian Olham & Mark Kirby

BIg Fish with 6.03 Lbs. Tom Clark

2nd BF. with 4.72 Lbs. Josh Williamson

I want to congratulate all of our fishermen for a great day! I also want to say thanks to Don Graham, Brad Robinson, Scott Thorpe, Pete Wylie, Tony Byrd, Mike Tate and Troy Brown for helping me make this tournament a great success. Thanks to all of our sponsors for making this the best bass club in the Nashville TN area.

Well it was the best weather we have had this year durring a tournament. The day started of with the clear skys and Temps. in the high 40's. as we blasted off as scheduled at 5:30 am. The spotted bass moved up as did some of the largemouths durring the tournament. The day ended in the Mid. 70's and with a light wind. We had 54 boats sign up and fish this week, out of the 54 only 25 or so weighed in fish. We had only 2 boats bring in a limit. (5 fish) I want to thank Dunkin Donuts for the fresh donuts and all our sponsors for the door prizes. I also want to thank (in no certain order) Don Graham, Scott Thorpe, Tony Byrd, Eric & April Walls, Troy "Detroit" Brown, Shonna Silvey, and  Mike Tate our Webmaster for all of your help. I also want to tell our club members thanks as well. I want to say that I appreciate all of you and to say that I am so busy durring the tournaments that I don't have time to visit with the members. I also appreciate all of your patience to those who did not get their membership cards yet. I forgot to bring your cards to the tournament but I will have them at the next tournament. Here are your top five places and big fish winners. The points have also been posted and updated for viewing. The points are correct except  for deduct 25 points from Roy Petty's total and add 25 to Larry Petty's total.  Larry fished the last tournament but the points were added to Roy's line. Sorry for the error, I will adjust this on the next posting. Thanks Brad

1st  place with 11.22 Lbs. Kevin Meeks & Rodney Johnson

2nd place with 11.07 Lbs. Steve Currence & Joe Jordan

3rd  place with  8.16 Lbs. Bill Leaverton

4th  place with  7.95 Lbs. Wayne Burlison & Steve Mc Kay

5th Place  with  5.91 Lbs. Arron Estes & David Butterworth

Big Fish was a 6.01 Lbs. Largemouth, Rodney Johnson

2nd Place Big Fish 5.91 Lbs. Largemouth, David Butterworth

Foggy, Fishing, and Flooding are a dangerous combo at the blast off. The temp was around 38 degrees and the fog was very heavy @ Cedar Creek. We delayed the blast off 1 hour untill 7am for the safety of the 53 Boats (the anglers in them). With the heavy rain and flooding Old Hickory Lake (Cumberland River) was very muddy, very high, and moving very fast. The biggest hazard of the day was the amount of timber in the water. I am happy to say that I am not aware of any lower units lost or injury to any club members. There was a blown Johnson motor that was not related to an impact. We ended up with sunny a sky and mid 70's air temp. Here we go with your results.

1st place with 9.38 lbs.     Jimmy Ivey & Bob Parry

2nd place with 9.27 lbs.    Pete Wylie & Scott Thorpe

3rd place with 7.26 lbs.     Steve Hobbs & Josh Carter

4th place with 7.18 lbs.     Jeff Hill & Mike Corley

5th Place with 6.70 lbs.     Josh Clary & Kyle Crecelius

Big Fish 4.41 lbs.                 Adam Goodwin

2nd Big Fish 3.86 lbs.         Josh Haskins

Again I want to thank Mr. & Mrs. Don Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Walls, Brad Robinson, Tony Byrd, Larry Petty, Scott Thorpe for helping out and making sure it went well. I also want to thank all of our members and sponsors for your participation and support. A special thanks to Dunkin Donuts for the fresh donuts you provide for our breakfast. Please support our sponsors as they support our club. Thanks Brad

This was our first "Regular Points" Tournament for 2009. Only the hardcore (aka crazy)  anglers were there. There was a slight delay in the Blast Off due to cloud cover making safe light 15-20 minutes later than scheduled. With that being said we extended the weigh in or end time to 2:00pm. It was another day that we got to battle with the elements. There was one thing that was consistant all day and that was the rain. The winds were light and the low Temp. beiing in the MId. 30's & the high in the upper 40's. Most of the tournament was in the low 40's and very wet. If you had good rain gear it was not bad, but if you didn't you were very unhappy (wet and cold too). We had 43 Boats sign up to fish and we signed up 36 new OHPPBT Club Members. Some of them didn't even fish, they just came out to make the new membership sign up deadline. 27 of the 43 boats brought fish to the scales. We also had some nice smallmouth bass weighed in (one of them was 4.87 lbs). We are expecting to have a 60-75 boat average this year. Here are your top 5 and Big Fish winners.

   1st Place  16.44 lbs. with 5 fish Todd Storch & Tony Parkerson

   2nd Place 13.48 lbs. with 4 fish Ricky McNeese & Pat Moses   

   3rd Place  13.23 lbs. with 5 fish Will Liddell & Joey Wyatt

   4th Place  11.01 lbs. with 4 fish Tony Churchman & Alan Churchman

   5th Place  10.16 lbs. with 5 fish Stevie Ray Anderson & Luke Mena 

   Big Fish 6.09 lbs. Largemouth by Bass Robert Bramel  

   2nd Big Fish 5.77 lbs. Largemouth Bass by Tony Parkerson

I want to thank (in no certain order) Don Graham, Mike Tate, Eric Walls, Tony Byrd, Troy Brown, all club members, all of our sponsors, and Long Hunter State Park. I want to thank all of you for your help and support. Returning Members have until April 4th to sign up 10 minutes prior to sceduled blast off. If you were not a member last year your deadline has already passed. Get on the forum and let other club members know what you think of the drawing prizes and how we are doing. Thanks Brad

We blasted off at 6am from Cedar Creek Marina with 52 boats. The morning went very smooth after everybody visited with each other and exchanged fish stories. Everybody was enjoying the donuts that were provided for us free by Dunkin Donuts. The reason for the OHPPBT to put on open tournaments was to make money for our Fish Off at the end of the year and to generate new members. This was a success, we took in 28 membership forms on Saturday and we raised $ as planned. We drew raffle tickets and gave away 26 prize packages valued at about $1000.00 total. (this was in addition to the money paid out to 1st - 5th place and 1st & 2nd Big Fish) The rusults were as follows:

1st place     Tim Guinn & Chris Meyer               5 fish    14.92 lbs

2nd place    Todd Storett & Tony Parkinson     5 fish    14.32 lbs.

3rd place     Bert Carathers & Jimmy Ivey         5 fish    13.15 lbs.

4th place     Grady Wilson & Alan Maxwell        5 fish    11.24 lbs.

5th place     Pete Williams & James Gregory  5 fish    10.99 lbs.

1st Big Fish Roy Petty                                                        6.26 lbs Largemouth

2nd Big Fish  Bobby Bullington & Martin Rather             5.63 lbs Largemouth

Everyone that was there had a great time except the non member that blew up his motor. We had about 1/2 the boats weighing in fish. Cedar Creek Marina gives us 10% off food and drink orders if you show them your 2009 OHPPBT Membership card. Please remember that the new members have until Saturday the 14th of March 10 minutes prior to Blast Off to become an OHPPBT Member. This is our updated deadline. Returning OHPPBT members have until April 4th 10 minutes prior to Blast Off. The there are no exceptions to these deadlines. Have a great day and we hope to see you on the 14th. Don't forget we will blast off in the order of sign up. I Will be mailing OHPPBT Membership Cards on Monday for everyone who signed up Saturday @ Cedar Creek. This way you will have them for this Saturday. Your membership cards are needed to expidite the check in process, so please bring them to each tournament. We will have Dunkin Donuts at the ramp this Saturday. We will start adding a bunch more pictures at our "regular" club tournaments. Thanks to all for your help and support. Roy that is a nice "Hawg" that is a nice fish on any day.

                                                         I WANT TO START BY THANKING ALL OF OUR GREAT SPONSORS! If one word could discribe the day it would be WINDY! Considering the weather conditions we had a great turn out for the first Open Tournament of the 2009 season @ Long Hunter State Park on Percy Priest Lake. The weather forecast had been calling for a low Temp. of 29, rain, sleet, snow and wind gust up to 35mph. With all that bad weather we still had a good number of boats to show up and fish. We made it to the weigh in with out getting rained on. We did however get to fish with 35mph wind gust, and 5+ foot waves. The waves were so big and fast 21ft boats were even struggling. Jarod Simon got 1st place and he will have to use some of that money to buy a new windshield. A big wave broke over the frontof his boat and crashed down on his windshield. While trying to reach calmer waters JR and Larry took a giant wave over the bow and knocked one of Lary's rods in the lake.  The same wave knocked a helmet off of JR's boat in to the water as well. Many boaters went home early. The ones who stayed were very wind blown and mostly wet. Even with mother nature nagging at us we still had a great time. This was a very difficult day for most anglers. With 25 boats and 41 people, only 11 boats weighed in fish. We have to remember we are very fortunate to have the freedom and the resources to get to go fishing and see our friends.

                                The results are as follows:

       1st Place Jarod Simon & Jimmy Ivey               16 lbs 6.4 oz with 4 fish

       2nd Place Dave Uskavitch & Mark Willenberg   7 lbs 8.1 oz with 2 fish

       3rd Place Robbie Ervin & Danny Crockett         6 lbs 14 oz with 3 fish

       4th Jeff Hill & Mike Corley                               4 lbs 6.9 oz with 1 fish

       5th Ken Roberts & Rob Adolfson                    4 lbs 6.5 oz with 2 fish

       Big Fish Mark Willenberg                                  6 lbs 3.7 oz (Largemouth)

       2nd Big Fish Jarod Simon                                4 lbs 8.8 oz (Largemouth) 

      (no prize was awarded for the 54 lbs Smallmouth Buffalo that Stevie Ray Anderson caught. He is looking for  a new dip net since the handle snapped on Luke's net while landing that giant. I wish I could have seen the look on his face the next day when on the phone I informed him the lake record was 52 lbs)

  I want to invite everyone to come to the next tournament @ Cedar Creek Marina on Old Hickory Lake on March 7th, 2009. There is a group of people I want to thank for helping with the the first tournament of 2009 and they are: Don Graham, Scott Thorpe, Eric Walls, April Walls, Larry Petty, Detriot Brown, Mike Tate, Shonna Silvey and Asst. Director Tony Byrd. You were a great help and I appreciate all of you. If you get a chance, ask someone who was there about the prizes from the drawings. We want to thank Dunkin Donuts for the hot coffee and donuts. We also want to thank all of our other sponsors for their support. Please use our sponsors and show them your membership card for possible discounts on goods and services. Thank all of you for your help and have a Blessed Day!

Brad Chapman

OHPPBT Tournament Director

WE WILL NOT BE TAKING ON ANY NEW MEMBERSHIPS PAST MARCH 14TH 2009. IF YOU WERE NOT AN OHPPBT MEMBER LAST YEAR, your deadline to become a new member in 2009 is March 14th, 10 minutes prior to Blast off! If you are a returning OHPPBT member you still have until the original deadline date of April 4th, 2009, 10 minutes prior to blast off to get your money & form in! This was not the original plan but we are having a wonderful growth period this year. I am very happy with all of the interest that has been created. With that being said we do not want to forget who OHPPBT is and what we are! We are a dedicated group of local fishermen who love to fish, hang out, tell stories (usually lies), and share knowledge with each other.  As most of you know I jumped in the Directors seat this year and was off and running. We had our meeting and decided to limit the number of members so that we wouldn't grow too fast. We voted and decided to cut off membership for new and returning members on April 4th, 2009 10 minutes prior to blast off. The amount of boats we were trying to get was 50 or so. I have been told that we are now the "TALK OF THE TOWN". The goal we had in mind at the meeting was 130-150 members for 2009.  We had no idea that we would have the response we have had. I have been told to expect 75-100 boats for our first open this year. That is great for the opens because the club gets more for our fish off. On a regular basis this is not what we wanted. This is the best way I know to control this. We don't want to be the biggest tournament in the state, only the best one. This club is a weekend angler, family fishing type event. I am only trying to maintain that for it's loyal members. Please call me with any questions, comments, or concerns.

Thanks for all of your support.

 Brad Chapman

(615)497-7373

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