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 Barbless Hooks: Catch More Fish
Posted by fliesandfinswest on Monday, April 10 @ 09:48:23 PDT
Recently, I have become a big fan of barbless hooks. Not because I believe in some higher morality, but because they are simply more effective at catching fish. Yes, that is what I said; barbless hooks are very effective at catching more fish, particularly when trout are on the feed. Barbless hooks maximize your fishing time and that means more fish hooked. It is a little counter intuitive because more fish do give you the slip when fishing barbless, especially when you are first learning how to play a fish on a barbless hook. However, after a little practice the “long distance releases” become minimal. Barbless hooks do reduce fish mortality which decreases and anglers impact on fish populations and that is a great benefit as well. However, it is getting a barbless hook unstuck that makes them easier for me to fish . Less time dealing with barbed hooks stuck in hats, trees, nets, rocks and fish means more time fishing and that means more catching.
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Re: Barbless Hooks: Catch More Fish
by KodiakCommando on Monday, April 10 @ 18:33:32 PDT http://www.fishalaskamagazine.com | | Barbless is the way to go for sure no matter what the size of the fish is! My biggest salmon on the fly was a 55 pound king and that came on a barbless hook. I actually believe my catch rates go up with barbless hooks especially for large salmon as the hook seems to go into the fish easier on the hookset so less fish are lost on the hookset or near after. And as long as you fight a fish well you shouldn't lose many fish. |
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Re: Barbless Hooks: Catch More Fish
by jason-c on Monday, April 10 @ 14:01:42 PDT http://www.fliesandfinswest.com | | Most western steelhead rivers require barbless. So I don't mind putting in my time with most of my fly fishing learning to deal with it. Tube flies with short shanked hooks help keep steelhead buttoned up. I have yet to loose a steelhead strickly because of a barless hook. inevitably when one does come off it is always a result of a mistake I made. |
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Re: Barbless Hooks: Catch More Fish
by jason-c on Monday, April 10 @ 14:03:19 PDT http://www.fliesandfinswest.com | | One more thing. Barbless hooks come out of human flesh as easily as the fish. |
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Re: Barbless Hooks: Catch More Fish
by AvidDavid on Monday, April 10 @ 12:09:07 PDT | I have fished a lot of barbless (or flattened barb) hooks since the onset of my recent devotion to fly fishing. Largely this is because I fish water in the East in which "barbless" is required. Maybe I just lose a lot of fish, but, I honestly believe that I don't lose more fish than I would with barbed hooks (10-20%). Perhaps the small nymphs that I often fish (even with bead heads) just don't have enough mass to be shaken free during jumps. I don't really understand why I don't lose more.
But they certainly do come out easily with the hemostats. I net most fish and without directly touching the fish I can quickly grab the fly with the hemostats (I say that with a giggle as I remember chasing quite a few writhing fish around the bottom of my landing net with hemostats) . I can release the fish without touching it with my hand(s) at all. Of course I still try to take pictures, and who wants the net in the picture. So much for the no hands technique!
But alas my experience is limited predominantly to microtrout. Do the Steelheaders use barbless hooks for their big fish? It sounds to me like line breaks are more common than hooks becoming disengaged. Has the barbless Simplefly been successful? |
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