Alan Whitty
Well-known member
I live about as far as you can in England from the sea,but I used to do quite a bit of beach fishing,plus a bit of boat fishing,so I watch a fair bit of videos on it,with so many anglers returning their fish I'm quite shocked that people don't crush the barbs,when you watch fish like smoothounds,doggies,whiting,codling being caught on 1/0-4/0 hooks these have big barbs so surely the bump created would be enough to hold fish on the hook,your views please...