Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

More than 175 anglers began the 2014 Walmart FLW Tour season with hopes and dreams of making it to the Forrest Wood Cup. Only 35 of them will, and with just one tournament to go, on Kentucky Lake, a handful of pros within striking distance of 35th place will have to kick it into high gear if they want to be part of the show at Lake Murray August 14-17.

They're trying to replace those pros who are already above the cut line, but with too small a cushion to rest easily.

This latter group is composed of the "bubble boys" - the anglers teetering dangerously close to the line separating in and out.

And of course, the prospects of the 2014 standouts at the top of the list are unofficially sealed. Barring major catastrophe, they'll finish with enough points. The goal of a handful of these fortunate few at Kentucky Lake is to try to run down and overtake current AOY leader Andy Morgan.

All this considered, we decided to take a look at some of the pros currently sitting within 10 spots of 35th place in the AOY standings, and weigh their odds of making it to the Cup.