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Fallout 3 unique weapon Pa's Fishing Aid Attack statistics dmg/attack: 80 dmg/projectile: 4.444 DPS: 80 attacks/sec: 1 (unmodified: 2.25) # of projectiles: 18 spread: 1 Criticals crit dmg: 40 crit chance: x 1 Ammunition ammo type: Shotgun Shells ammo per shot: 2 ammo capacity: 2 shots/reload: 1 Other skill: Small Guns AP: 35 item HP: 300 repair: Drum-Magazine Combat Shotguns weight: 6 value: 350 base id: xx00d5b3

	The following is based on Fallout 3 cut content and has not been confirmed by canon sources.

Pa's Fishing Aid is a unique version of Double-Barrel Shotgun added to Fallout 3 with the Point Lookout add-on.

It looks identical to its regular version, Double-Barrel Shotgun, but differs in damage, price and other characteristics. It can only be repaired with Combat Shotguns.

It deals less damage per shot than the Double-Barrel Shotgun but this is made up for with a higher Critical Hit damage. Pa's Fishing Aid, without any perks, in a single Sneak Attack Critical to the head outside of V.A.T.S. deals a whopping 3200 points of damage, which would make it powerful enough to kill just about any enemy in the game in one shot.

Availability

This weapon was not placed in the game and must be obtained through the console.

Notes

• This weapon deals the same damage in a non-critical hit as The Terrible Shotgun, but has a much smaller magazine (not clip). Critical hit damage outside of V.A.T.S., however, is much larger due the larger number of pellets.

Behind the scenes

The name is most likely a reference to the commonly known idiom "shooting fish in a barrel" or a method of fishing known as "shotgun fishing" (in which a fisher simply fires a large rifle or shotgun into a pond, using the shockwaves to kill everything).

Point Lookout (add-on)

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