(Editors: Following are highlights of movement in the State Farm-BassFan.com World Rankings. Now the rankings have extra significance in that the Top 25-ranked anglers in the world will qualify for the inaugural Cabela's Top Gun Championship. Top Gun will be held in Ft. Worth, Texas on Eagle Mountain Lake after the upcoming tour championships.)

Following are the updated State Farm World Rankings after last week's FLW Tour event on the Potomac River. Highlights:

> Greg Hackney remains the No. 1 fisherman in the world thanks in part to a 4th-place finish at the Potomac. That also helps him opens up a huge 17-point lead in the Rankings over Marty Stone, who remains 2nd in the world. In the last five tour events, including the Potomac, Hackney has finished an amazing 4th, 4th, 46th, 1st and 4th. Also, just as trivia (this does not affect the Rankings), the Potomac was the 24th event in a row Hackney finished in the money.

> Kevin VanDam flip-flops with Skeet Reese, and climbs a spot into 3rd in the world. Reese is now 4th, and Terry Scroggins moves up one spot into 5th.

> Pennsylvania's Dave Lefebre finished 17th last week – his best finish of the 2005 FLW Tour season – and thanks to an overall strong season jumps a big 14 spots to 6th in the world. This may be his first time in the State Farm Top 10.

> A 9th at the Potomac helps Brent Chapman counteract his 155th at the Wheeler FLW, and he gets back into the Top 10 at 7th in the world.

> Because of his strong year, a dismal 191st at the Potomac only drops Aaron Martens three spots to 8th in the world.

> It's tight at the top, so Mike Iaconelli's win at the Potomac only bumps him up three spots, to 9th in the world.

> A 13th for Alabama's Matt Herren helps him jump up that many spots to 10th in the world, his first time in the Top 10.

> South Carolina's Anthony Gagliardi narrowly missed winning FLW Angler of the Year (AOY), and also narrowly misses out on cracking the State Farm Top 10: He's ranked 11th.

> Second-year tour pros debut in this edition of the Rankings, and Arkansas' Scott Suggs debuts highest, at 21st in the world. (Arkansas' Mike McClelland debuts second-highest at 43rd, and last year's FLW AOY Shinichi Fukae debuts at 69th.)

> Japan's Toshinari Namiki lost the FLW AOY race to Hackney, but in part on the strength of his second 5th-place finish in a row, he leaps up 22 spots to 22nd in the world.

Remember that:

> Even though Hackney won FLW AOY, the AOY title itself gains him nothing in the Rankings. Rather, the finishes that got him that title are already are incorporated into his score.

> Anglers who do not fish a given event (e.g., VanDam) can move up or down in the World Rankings by one of two ways: 1) They can drop a finish from 2 years prior, thus affecting their score (usually it hurts if it was a good finish and helps if it was a bad finish); or 2) Each angler is scored first and then everyone is ranked according to their scores, so some anglers will move up or down because of the scores of those anglers near them. VanDam actually is a good example of both of these phenomena. He dropped a good 4th-place finish from 2 years ago and his points dropped vs. his points in the last edition of the World Rankings, but he still rose in the Rankings by one slot because the scores of anglers around him dropped (notably Reese).

> Only two events to go before the Top 25 in the world head to Eagle Mountain Lake in Texas for the inaugural Cabela's Top Gun Championship. Only the Top 25 after this year's Forrest L. Wood Championship and Bassmaster Classic will qualify.