Just a quick snippit of my weekend on Percy Priest in Nashville, TN.  A friend of mine, Brian Carper decided to head out to Priest for a morning of fishing up the East and West fork of Stones River.   We started at 5:30, launched at the Jefferson Pike Bridge.  We fished the bridge with nothing going.  We headed up the East fork to a favorite hole of mine and I caught a solid 2lb'er on a Watermelon Bitsy Bug that I get from Michael at www.midtnmarine.com A few casts later and I catch a solid 3 to 3.5 lb bass on the same lure.  We fish out way back down the river with little action, a few dinks on top water and jerkbaits. We went into the West fork, all the way to the back catching just a few dinks on a jig and shakey head.  We pulled into a little pocket and whacked'em.  He caught 2 keepers on a black red flake tube, biggest about 3lbs and I caught 2 more keepers about 2 lbs on a shakey head, watermelon finesse worm.  He had to run at 1pm and I would guess he had 2 fish for 5lbs and I had 5 for 10'ish or so.  I dropped him off and headed to the back of spring creek to fish the 840 bridge and caught 1 barely keeper off a rock pile.  I came back out and fished the ledges, humps and flats in front of Spring Creek.  2:00 rolled around and schools of bass just swarmed a flat.  I caught probably 10 drinks in the school and 2 very nice keepers.  The two keepers were 1 solid 4lb'er and 1 3lb'er.  I caught the bigger one on a IMA Jerkbait from www.optimumbaits.com and the other on a Bandit 200 in Parrot color pattern.  So for me I would now say my best five was around 15lbs.  Not bad for just an easy day of relaxing fishing.  I will have some pics as soon as Brian emails them to me. 

        

 

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