First off, sorry for the lack of a recap article last week. We took a nice vacation, but we still managed to get the rankings updated – just no story. So, we figured this week we’d see how the rankings shook out after both Jacob Wheeler’s Elite Series victory at Chicakamauga and Skip Johnson’s FLW Tour win at Kentucky Lake. To do that, we need to look all the way back to three weeks ago, when the top 10 looked like this:
1. Andy Morgan
2. Bryan Thrift
3. Aaron Martens
4. Mark Rose
5. Jacob Wheeler
6. Brent Ehrler
7. Todd Faircloth
8. Kevin VanDam
9. Jacob Powroznik
10. Cody Meyer
Now? The only two anglers still in the same spot are Morgan – fresh off his second-straight Angler of the Year title – and Thrift. Everything else is a jumble, with Faircloth actually falling out of the top 10 altogether (now 15th), Michael Neal climbing into the top 10 (ninth), KVD climbing to fifth and Wheeler actually slipping to sixth (yes, he won at Chick, but he finished 42nd at KY Lake).
So, what was some of the noteworthy news from the last two weeks? Well, we touched on Wheeler actually slipping despite his win. Remember, is much easier to fall than to climb, so as much as his win helped him, it didn’t help as much as one might think because an eight-place finish from 2012 had dropped off only days earlier. Even still, he had a 748.255 average after the win. Well, his finish at Kentucky Lake was a 745.342, which slightly dipped his average to a 748.083, allowing Ehrler and KVD to jump him.
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