Barbed v Barbless

[camo]

There have been many surveys and polls on this subject so lets have your votes.

This is completely confidential

[Baynesey]

i voted barbless, have always used them, just feel comfortable with them, and u dont have to pull them about to get them out

[camo]

both are good for the right time and place,generally on a easy water i would use barbless but on a water were i will get maybe 3/4 takes a season barbed.

[00andrus]

camo, i swear by semi barbed/ microbarbed, any chance you could edit the poll?

thanks, andy

[tarpon]

I voted barbed as thats all that i use including micro barbed.

Barbless i think cause a lot more mouth damage.

[camo]

Andy I could delete it and start again and add the others, but then I would need to delete the posts and start from scratch, I also thought everyone would remain anonymous but they have'nt.

Also some so called micro barbs are as big as normal barbs depending on the manufacturer, don't you agree.

[tarpon]

Come on camo what hooks do you use barded/bardless and do you think that bardless cause more damage then a barded hook would?

[00andrus]

yea i do mate.

so if you use micro barbed, vote for barbed?

[camo]

I use barbed for almost all my fishing, last year I went on a weeks holiday to a fishery that I never fished before and did very nicely thanks even to catching the second biggest fish in the lake.

The venue had a strange rule on hooks "manufactured size 8 barbless" only to be used and the state of most of the fish I caught was terrible, so if I never use barbed hooks again I will not be sorry.

The venues I fish now have banned the use of barbless hooks on all waters, due to the damage caused by barbless hooks.

The only time I use crushed barbs are for Pike fishing.
So naturaly i voted barbed.

[steveobeveo]

hey on all my waters its barbless only but i think barbed are better 4 thefishas they dont slide around in the mouth once a fish is hooked on barbed it stays in that 1 place but im not alllowed barbed

[lurch]

Barbed gets my vote every time,fished on to many barbless waters catching fish with permanent smiles!Fishing millstone in france soon only problem is its a barbless only lake with some big kippers and its not a runs water so any carp i hook i want to land,any one with some experience recommend a decent hook?(that means you Al)

[tarpon]

It looks like Danny is the ODD one out you traitor

Change you hooks Danny to barbed it causes less mouth damage

[00andrus]

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

lurch, how about raptors or muggas?

[camo]

Lurch, Like yourself I have used many hooks over the years,from the super specialists, powercarp,owner etc, I now use the kamasan b775 and swear by them, not sure if they do a barbless one though, why not file the barb off if you have to or crush it if that's allowed.

They have an inturned eye which helps with the hook hold and with the bait mounted tight to the bend they act like a claw and when they go in they are not coming out. And they are extremely strong.

[Baynesey]

the few carp i have catch ive never had ne mouth damage, where as a friend uses barbed and there is alway mouth damage. im sticking with barbless