At the recent Potomac River FLW Tour event, only one guy had an outside shot at bumping off Pennsylvania's Dave Wolak to win the cross-tour BassFan Rookie of the Year (ROY) Race. That angler was Florida's Bobby Lane, who lit up the FLW Tour scoreboard during the first half of the season.
But Lane couldn't get it together at the Potomac. He finished 159th, by far his worst finish of the season, and fell from 3rd to 6th in the final BassFan ROY standings.
The upshot is that after 2 months of watching Lane fall in the standings and then waiting to see if he'd climb back up, Wolak – who also won the BASS ROY award – wins the BassFan ROY Race, making him the best rookie in all of tour-level fishing.
Congrats to Wolak and all the rookies who followed their dreams this year.
Notable
> Last year FLW Tour rookies occupied the Top 7 spots in the final standings. This year BASS rookies occupy the first three spots. The top FLW Tour rookie, in 4th, was Idaho's Ken Wick.
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