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| Hey Guys,
I'm curious if any of you guys have used this lure the salmo fatso. I'm thinking about
trying one out and was wondering how this lure peformed and what you guys thought about
it. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I have not used them, however, My best friend Timmy (fatboy) has had a lot of follows and hits on them, but has never really sunk the steel with them. |
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Location: oswego, il | I have, they work nice. Jerk them, twitch them, reel them in or troll them. Nice wobble. Have had follows from musky but have caught a big bass and lost what would have been my biggest walleye on one. You can burn it faster than a bucktail, something worth trying. Got a follow that way on it as well. |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | I had a 50+ grab one and never got a hook. Heard similar stories. Hard to believe.............. |
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Location: Holly, MI | For no apparent reason they have an awesome wobble and side to side flash when trolled. They will also cast a country mile if you want to reach out and touch somone (muskie, not jetski). |
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Location: MPLS, MN | Good baits but I like the Salmo Sliders better. Awsome action whether you Jerk, twitch, troll or straight cast and steady retrive. If you get one I suggest you get the sinking model. Besides skis I caught my biggest largemouth on one Trolling.. Worh a try, have a couple friends with the fatso and we seem to get more action on the Sliders... |
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| I have used the Salmo Fatso off and on for the past three years. It is very versitile as mentioned and well constructed w/ exception to hardware. I have caught a 36" on it and have had one fish on that I believe to be one of the biggest muskies I have hooked. Here is the exception. When I inspeted the bait after that hook up and loss I quickly noticed that the hook was gone and the front split ring had failed by pulling apart. What was once a perfect circled split ring was now a pice of wire that looked somewhat like a bent up paper clip. I now use Bucher and/or Wolverine split rings on all of my Salmo baits. Get one and give it a try. The color that has been the best for me is the real roach pattern. Good Luck!
Mike Ice (a.k.a. Iceman)
www.icemansguideservice.com |
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Location: MPLS, MN | Yeah - Make sure you change the hooks on Salmo products also. Had a nice upper 40s at LOTW last summer bend my hook straight. Learned my lesson. |
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Location: oswego, il | Lobi, funny you mentioned jet skiers. I was tossing the fatso last year and here comes a jetskier into our casting lane. I am reeling as fast as I can becuase I am going to wing it at this bozo but found myself figure eighting a fish instead!  |
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Location: Holly, MI | Jetskiiers can be as bad as mosquitos but they are not as bad as the big boats on St Clair. I hope I dont offend somone but I'll describe the typical boat that almost runs us down. We are parked drifting casting, or trolling on a course and here comes about a 40 foot old ChrisCraft Romer, huge old giant non-plaining hull pushing a wall of water. The driver is 50-60, has a drink in his hand, Elvis sunglasses, and dyed black hairdoo and his fat wife is sitting near him in her purple and yellow flowered tent. His two ugly daughters, who should not be allowed in public in a bathing suit are lying on the deck or hanging off the back scaring the fish. He makes no attempt to veer around us in the slightest and his near miss all but swamps us with his 2 ton wake. He has been a sales rep at the widget factory for 35 years and owns the world, especially this lake. It is only 26 miles across so there isn't much room for him to give us a break. If there was only some way to hook up some torpedo tubes under the boat and drop that sucker to the bottom. I'm sure the blubber on his family would float them well and they would be safe. These guys break down once in a while too and want a tow. Ha! David towing Goliath. One guy we towed out of the Shipping Channel was scared because a ship was bearing down on him. He actually anchored in the shipping channel when his boat died. Duh, drift out of the channel first Bozo. Then as he is thanking us he admitted it has died 3 times this year with a dead battery. Some guys never learn.
There, I got that off my chest. I feel better now. This crap does really happen tho. |
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| I use them as a 2nd throw on a follow -blu-gil or perch  |
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Location: St Cloud, MN | I too have had a lot of follows on a perch fatso as well as by personal biggest(45"). mine has the old paint job they improved the color a couple years ago. i second getting better hooks too as mine bent from the 45"'er. definately get a fatso and a slider too!!
jo |
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