With two Bassmaster Tour events now over, FLW Tour rookie Ray Scheide still leads the BassFan Rookie of the Year (ROY) Race. In fact, the Top 10 slots – all FLW Tour pros – don't change.

The best two rookies so far on the Bassmaster Tour are California's RJ Bennett and Texas' Jason Reyes, who are now 11th and 12th.

This week's Atchafalaya Basin FLW Tour event will determined whether Scheide can hang onto his lead. It will also be interesting to see how Japan's Shinichi Fukae, now 2nd in the ROY Race, fares in the flooded basin.

Notable

> Although he is listed as a rookie by BASS, red-hot Bassmaster Tour pro Scott Suggs is eliminated from the BassFan race because he fished the pro side of a Bassmaster Megabucks event in 1998, which is in essence a tour-level event.

> On the FLW side, Texas' David Truax is eliminated because he fished the pro side of a Megabucks event in 1992, and the same goes for Indiana's Greg Korschot, who fished a Megabucks in 1989.

> The effect of these eliminations is that the race now has a 46-person field.

> The BassFan ROY Race only accepts true rookies, meaning anglers who have never fished the pro or "boater" side of a tour-level event. The Bassmaster Classic isn't included in this criterion since non-tour anglers can qualify for that event.