Started fishing in Manitoba which requires barbless hooks. THEY'RE GREAT!!! So much easier and no noticeable increase in lost fish. And last year when I hooked my hand it came out easily. I swear by them now. Use them everywhere now. All of Canada should go barbless. Any chance of that?
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I pinch em religiously here, as soon as I head east or west I fish with barbs... One exception, I kept dropping fish one year in a tourny in SK, we were fishing on the deep side and I think I wasn't driving the hooks hard enough... Long story short, I pinched them and put more fish in the boat barbless than I did with barbs on... Not sure if there is ever a measure of how much (if at all) harder it is to drive hooks home with barbs...
Only time I wish I could use barbed hooks, is topwater smallies here... All my other presentations I have tweaked or altered the setup to make it work in my favour, for example Lindy rigs are now 99% of the time a circle hook matched to the bait, miss the odd hookset, but once they are pinned they are pinned usually...
I do have to agree with Mike on this, in this province with the broad spectrum of anglers and the typical uneducated mishandling of fish or misuse of technique, Barbless is the way to go...
Only time I wish I could use barbed hooks, is topwater smallies here... All my other presentations I have tweaked or altered the setup to make it work in my favour, for example Lindy rigs are now 99% of the time a circle hook matched to the bait, miss the odd hookset, but once they are pinned they are pinned usually...
I do have to agree with Mike on this, in this province with the broad spectrum of anglers and the typical uneducated mishandling of fish or misuse of technique, Barbless is the way to go...
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That's funny your mention fish being "light biters" on plastics... Most days when fishing swimbaits and the like the fish have them inhaled, even when fishing aggressively!!! I should have taken pictures of the 13" saugers with a 1oz jig 6" big hammer engulfed right to the lead at pinawa last summer, and that was on a steady retrieve!!!
Most deep hooked fish with live bait are a result of anglers not knowing how to do the technique they are using, or using the wrong gear for that technique... Yeah shit happens, but I can't remember having a fish die (I'll keep where and when legal anything hooked deep) or spending more than 30 seconds popping a hook, here or in waters where barbs are legal...
Guys using cat rods with P rigs, kill fish, barbed or barbless!!! Put that P rig on the right rod with the right angler running it and it's a world of difference!!!
Most deep hooked fish with live bait are a result of anglers not knowing how to do the technique they are using, or using the wrong gear for that technique... Yeah shit happens, but I can't remember having a fish die (I'll keep where and when legal anything hooked deep) or spending more than 30 seconds popping a hook, here or in waters where barbs are legal...
Guys using cat rods with P rigs, kill fish, barbed or barbless!!! Put that P rig on the right rod with the right angler running it and it's a world of difference!!!
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