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Friday 5s - Top Five Facts About Anglers Inn at Lake El Salto

Friday 5s - Top Five Facts About Anglers Inn at Lake El Salto

From Billy Chapman, Anglers Inn International Founder and Owner

  1. Lake El Salto covers 27,000 acres with over 45 miles of rugged shoreline when full and was impounded on Sierra Madre Mountains' Elota River in the 1980s.
  2. Lake El Salto is located 800 miles south of the US border but less than 90 miles from Mazatlán International Airport.
  3. Lake El Salto was stocked with Florida strain largemouth bass in 1985 shortly after being built by Billy Chapman and his father.
  4. The biggest bass caught on Lake El Salto weighed nearly 19 pounds.
  5. Lake El Salto has been proclaimed as the best trophy bass lake in the world by the editors at Bassmaster Magazine, ESPN, Outdoor Life and many others.