Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Fishing Forum :: Treble hooks advice
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thegildedgopher |
flytyer: "if they leap and jump off that is still a catch. " Haha. If you lose it due to the hook popping out, it's a lost fish, not a caught fish. I've brought fish into net only to lose them (big wave, stupid rubber net) and that is still not a catch in my book. I go with the dremel tool when eliminating barbs, but I only fish barbless when I'm in a pretty remote area or if I'm solo. I personally feel that ditching trebles for a single barbed hook is better than fishing barbless trebles. I feel that the extra hooks are more problematic than the barbs themselves. For your spoons, try a single siwash hook, barbed or not that's your preference. |
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Pinetree |
flytyer: "I had a guide once tell me--do you want to catch fish or not. I told him I did not need barbed hooks to catch fish..if they leap and jump off that is still a catch. " Good answer, since Quetico went barbless, and I went with the rules, I lose very few fish more than before. Just keep the line tight. Over the years in the BWCA, I got hooked in various places with barbs, and it was no fun. Ask the Clinic in Ely they once collected all the barb hooks, they pulled out of people. It's time for Minnesota to go barbless. I know like lake trout, barbless for me saved a lot of lake trout to swim again when released. |
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Sunburn |
Last season was my first time using barbless hooks. I love the ease of releasing fish quickly with minimal handling and trauma. Knowing the hook will also come out of my thumb with similar ease should something go wrong is a very comforting thought! |
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flytyer |
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walllee |
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plander |
crimping a hook barb video In Quetico, you have to fish with barbless hooks. |
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Argo |
OldGuide2: "...Many years ago on advice I also tried cutting off one of the hooks on a treble setup because it supposedly cuts down on snags... " On some minnow style lures like an Original Floating Rapala I may remove a treble as well (the front one) - especially the ones that have three treble hooks. But I don't cut it off. I remove it with a pair of split-ring pliers. I also bring a lip-gripper. It keeps your hands away from the hooks. Plus, I don't like traveling with fishing nets. |
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timatkn |
I did a search and these look promising, a grabber barbless treble Grabber Treble When I have kids along I definitely see a higher loss of fish, especially when a bass jumps, it's just hard to keep the line tight for many of them and more often the bass throws the hook. Despite what a previous poster said...kids are more honest...it is quite disappointing and no matter how many times I try to convince them...they KNOW they did not catch that fish :) Us adults can fool ourselves more easily... Snagging clothing and skin is a great reason to switch to barbless. My wife once snagged my lifevest and we lost 20 minutes of prime fishing trying not to tear the vest unhooking her...I probably missed 5-10 fish due to barbed hooks as it was a hot bite. Barbless hooks also result in better/easier hook sets so sometimes you can hook a fish you may have missed with barbed--especially trolling cranks. What's interesting and seems like some get mad at me when I bring this up...but i am a science guy...is that barbless hooks have little effect on delayed hooking mortality. Barbless hooks penetrate deeper so if the hook is inside the fish it is more likley to cause more damage than barbless. There was a recent Mille Lacs walleye study with Leeches and barbed and barbless and the Barbless killed more fish than barbed. Although statistically the difference was not that significant, but highly interesting when the results seem to contradict what our own bias tells us. Fish death is more related to fatigue (playing the fish out), higher water temps, how long it is out of the water, and where the fish is hooked rather than the type of hook. You can use a barbless but if you use 6# test and tire the fish out so it's lying on the surface, drag it to shore in warmer water for a pic you really didn't help the fish much. T |
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Brysherexx |
What’s the best way of going about it? I have searched for barbless treble hooks and found them to be costly. Do you just pinch down the barb or try grinding them off? Thanks. |
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