Crazy carper,What do you use,what is your view and why?
I have allway`s been happy about useing barbed and have used them whenever I could get away with it .
If I couldn`t get away with barbed I would sqash the barb down with plyer`s which meant that I still had a micro barb.
But I feel that a lot of damage caused by "barbless" hook`s is infact caused by the misuse of braid in the wrong hand`s I.E. being used the same as mono,to heavy strike,heavy handed in snag`s,I cannot prove this,and at the moment I don`t use braid,so this is just a idea of mine after seeing some of the carp on the water`s I fish.
They are very badly scarred too much to my mind for a hook.
What do you think.?