GALLATIN, Tenn. (June 30, 2014) – Anthony Nash of Quebeck, Tenn., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 18 pounds, 12 ounces Saturday to win the Bass Fishing League Music City Division tournament on Old Hickory Lake. For his victory, Nash earned $2,838.
“I started out shallow flipping a jig around wood and caught a limit pretty quickly,” said Nash, who earned his first career win with FLW. “Then, I went out into the main lake and fished a couple of brush piles in 10 to 12 feet of water and caught two that weighed over five pounds. I stayed out there for about an hour and a half after that and didn’t catch anything else so I ran up the lake to an area around Spring Creek.
“I went shallow and started swimming a ½-ounce homemade swimjig with a swimbait for a trailer,” Nash continued. “I caught about 20 keepers, and another five-pounder there. I was swimming the jig on channel swings that dropped from about 5 feet to 8, and I had the boat in about 10 feet of water.
“It felt good to win,” finished Nash. “I have fished four tournaments in a row on Old Hickory and I knew there were some good fish biting. I’ve had some bad luck in the past, but I finally got the monkey off of my back.”
Nash said that the jig he flipped shallow was a green-pumpkin-colored 3/8-ounce D & L Tackle Advantage Jig with an 8-inch Zoom Lizard for a trailer. Rounding out the top 10 pros were:
2nd: Adam Wagner, Cookeville, Tenn., five bass, 16-5, $1,419
3rd: Lance Oligschlaeger, Gallatin, Tenn., five bass, 15-1, $948
4th: Bryan Montgomery, Lebanon, Tenn., five bass, 13-13, $662
5th: Tim Staley, Dowelltown, Tenn., five bass, 13-8, $568
6th: Chris Wooten, West Point, Miss., five bass, 13-7, $520
7th: John Lewis, Chapel Hill, Tenn., five bass, 13-1, $473
8th: Matt Stanley, Alexandria, Tenn., five bass, 13-0, $426
9th: Steve Whitaker, Scottsville, Ky., five bass, 12-6, $378
10th: Jeff Lokken, Lebanon, Tenn., five bass, 12-5, $331
Ryan Benson of Pinson, Tenn., weighed in a five-bass limit totaling 15 pounds even Saturday to win $1,419 in the co-angler division. Rounding out the top 10 co-anglers were:
2nd: Daniel Douglas, Birmingham, Ala., five bass, 13-5, $710
3rd: Ed Bennington, Scottsville, Ky., five bass, 13-3, $473
4th: Jerry Armstrong, Shelbyville, Tenn., five bass, 10-0, $331
5th: Jim Fontaine, Smyrna, Tenn., five bass, 9-10, $284
6th: Gerald Williams, Scottsville, Ky., four bass, 9-5, $260
7th: Brandon Russell, Murfreesboro, Tenn., five bass, 8-13, $237
8th: Steve Melton, Shelbyville, Tenn., four bass, 8-11, $213
9th: Mark Joines, McMinnville, Tenn., four bass, 8-0, $189
10th: Andy Paschedag, Edwardsville, Ill., four bass, 7-9, $166
The top 40 boaters and 40 co-anglers based on point standings will qualify for the Oct. 9-11 Regional Championship on Pickwick Lake in Florence, Ala. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard and a Chevy Silverado, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518C with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard.