hey wablaakiller,

I lived in Memphis for 10 yrs.  Just moved back up North.  You may look into a trip on the Buffalo river closer to Nashville.  A very pretty, clear water river with lots of largemouth.  Also, you can put in east of Moskow I think and take the Wolf river right into Germantown.  Lots and lots of water mocassins on this route.   And if you really, really, want to bushwack it, I think you can take the Hatchie from just Southwest of Brownsville all the way to the Miss. River .  

We also made some trips on the Buffalo River in Arkansas.  Absolutely, unbelievably, beautiful.