  A gauge field link smearing method developed for calculations with staggered
fermions, namely the use of unitarized fat7 links, is applied to mesonic and
baryonic Wilson loop calculations. This method is found to be very effective
for reducing statistical fluctuations for large Wilson loops. Examination of
chromo-electric field distributions shows that self-interactions of the static
sources are reduced when unitarized fat7 smearing is used but long-distance
inter-quark effects are unchanged.
