When generation stops, they will move all the way back out to the Cumberland. They will "stop over" briefly in some of the deeper holes on the lower river, but they don't stick around in the shallows for long when the water stops moving.
The Stones tailwater is only 7 or 8 miles tops from Percy Priest Dam to the junction with the Cumberland. It seems like a long trip, but stripers will do that kind of move at the drop of a hat. They are very mobile fish, and they can move a lot farther than that in a day if the forage and the conditions motivate them to do so. On tailwaters with intermittent generation, it does seem like it takes a long period of sustained generation before they will show up at a dam, but once they're there, they will stick around until the generation shuts off or the foraging opportunities die down.
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