“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

Complete results can be found at FLWOutdoors.com.

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.