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Eddie Caldwell
Guest
Barrie
I now only fish for trout (and occasionally for salmon) and most club and fishery waters that I fish have this barbless rule. We have no choice in the matter.
I suppose I've got used to fishing barbless and thinking about it I must be honest and tell you that I do not lose many fish once hooked.
However, the next time the opportunity presents itself I will try barbed hooks again. Looking back to both coarse and game fishing over fifty-odd years, unless a particular fish was deeply hooked, as many hooks fell out in the net from barbed hooks as they do nowadays from barbless hooks.
I read your articles regularly and I would take this opportunity to thank you for such authoritative and stimulating reading.
Cheers!
Eddie Caldwell
I now only fish for trout (and occasionally for salmon) and most club and fishery waters that I fish have this barbless rule. We have no choice in the matter.
I suppose I've got used to fishing barbless and thinking about it I must be honest and tell you that I do not lose many fish once hooked.
However, the next time the opportunity presents itself I will try barbed hooks again. Looking back to both coarse and game fishing over fifty-odd years, unless a particular fish was deeply hooked, as many hooks fell out in the net from barbed hooks as they do nowadays from barbless hooks.
I read your articles regularly and I would take this opportunity to thank you for such authoritative and stimulating reading.
Cheers!
Eddie Caldwell