[Striper77]

Looking for a tackle store in Suffolk that carries a good and varied supp;y of barbless hooks. With the popularity of C&R I would think it would be easier to find a selection. I am replacing hooks on a lot of my plugs and can't find much selection in barbless.

 

[Jaiem]

Assuming you're using standard Mustad or similar hooks (as opposed to the high end VMC's and alike) you can just crush down the barbs. I always do this anyway on the tail hook of my plugs.

I'm not aware of any barbless saltwater trebles or larger/strongs saltwater style hooks.

Jaiem
ArtsNFlies.com

 

[616271]

I either crush or grind my barbs off. I prefer grinding.

 

[Striper77]

barbless

I have been crushing them as well, but I thought with all the talk of C&R that someone would be doing a better job of marketing barbless. Flyfishing may even be more geared to c&r but there are few barbless flies marketed. I did find a few small barbless trebels by Mustad, and they were great hooks, held their point extremely well.

 

[613687]

I have a question for you guys using Barbless hooks?
Do you find your loosing more fish using these hooks compared to the barbed ones?

 

[Hipshot]

I crush down the barbs on my Mustad jig hooks and they work very well hooking the fish(I think actually better)holding it, and getting the hook out is far easier! (jig hooks have a very large barb!)
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