I've been using the Fat Free Guppy quite a bit, and having some success with it. They are only $4 when purchased in town from Walmart. Kinda makes me a bit leery because they are "value" priced. They look more like an $8 crankbait to me. I do have to tune them about half of the time though.

 

I haven't tried the FF fry. Have a limitied amount of experience with the FF Fingerling.

 

What is everyone elses opinion of the Fat Free Series?

Better choices, no reason to be running cranks today like Norman lures on sale.

Tom

What are the better choices?

 

Is there anything wrong with the Bomber crankbaits?

 

What about the old Bill Dance ones? Were they better?

One of the best cranks ever IMO. They put a pile of fish in my boat over the years.

I use the old Bill Dance signature lures, even though I have hundreds of others;  IMO they still produce as well as most, better than many.

There is not a thing about the Bomber cranks that prevents or limits their ability to catch fish.  I have friends who regularly catch fish with them, and believe them to be their best baits.  
If pricing was an accurate measure of a bait’s success at catching fish, then some like the Rebel Wee Craw would be twice their current price.

I love my circa 1980’s fat free shads. Both regular and suspending.  They have a “decal” on the sides…

I like Bomber Cranks. I have a fat free Fingerling and it put a hawg in the boat a few years back. I should fish it more. 

Bomber Fat Free shad, Norman Deep little N, Bagley's killer B1, Norman DD22's. Still wish they made those original Bagley's Killer B1 and Killer B2's.  Then there was that magical spring foggy morning many years ago on the Guadalupe river lake.  The cedar Heddon Dying Flutter in the Baby Bass color.  It still may have been my biggest stringer ever.

Fishingmickey

 

I know it's not a crank bait, OP, thanks for that trip down memory lane.

 

 

Twin prop topwaters are special. I have a special one that I retired in about 87..

 

As far as the Bomber Fat Free series, they're absolutely solid fish catchers. Buy & fish with confidence. Great value for the money. 

I love Smithwick, Cordell, Storm, Rapala, Bomber  - they all catch the snot out of fish but I can throw the bomber and Cordell stuff into heavy cover without being extremely worried about snagging and as a result I tend to catch nicer fish on them.

 

you can upgrade hardware and hooks if you really want to be fancy and make a 3$ bait a 5$ bait that catches like a 12$ bait etc.

Thats a Fat Free Fingerling hanging out of this ones mouth.

Southern boys fish the Bandit ...

Good Fishing